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To: spitsong who wrote (16652)	10/2/2011 9:34:25 PM
From: spitsong	2 Recommendations Read Replies (3) of 29239

2011 NL Cy Young contenders Leaders W-L CG IP BB K ERA WHIP BAA WAR comments ----------------- ----- -- ----- -- --- ---- ---- ---- --- -------------------------------------- Clayton Kershaw 21-5 5 233.1 54 248 2.28 0.98 .207 6.9 Phenomenal breakout year Roy Halladay 19-6 8 233.2 35 220 2.35 1.04 .239 7.4 A close second Cliff Lee 17-8 6 232.2 42 238 2.40 1.03 .229 6.8 Not leading any single category Honorable Mention W-L CG IP BB K ERA WHIP BAA WAR comments ----------------- ----- -- ----- -- --- ---- ---- ---- --- -------------------------------------- Tim Lincecum 13-14 1 217.0 86 220 2.74 1.21 .222 4.4 Also good at video games Cole Hamels 14-9 3 216.0 44 194 2.79 0.99 .214 5.4 Third chair in a great orchestra Matt Cain 12-11 1 221.2 63 179 2.88 1.08 .217 3.9 Second fiddle? I don't know enough. Ian Kennedy 21-4 1 222.0 55 198 2.88 1.09 .227 5.5 "The stone that the builder refused" WAR is from baseball-reference.com: baseball-reference.com Tim Hudson and Shawn Marcum drop from consideration. Ryan Vogelsong would be among those honorably mentioned if he'd pitched more innings. Clayton Kershaw takes over the NL lead in WHIP and BAA from Cole Hamels while retaining his lead (or tie for the lead) in the Pitching Triple Crown of ERA, Wins (tied with Ian Kennedy), and Strikeouts. Roy Halladay leads in complete games and in allowing the fewest walks among qualifying NL pitchers, while Cliff Lee doesn't lead in any single category but is close to the top in all of them. I love the fact that all three top contenders are so close in innings pitched. This has been fun to watch, even from the distance of an AL city … three terrific seasons from three terrific NL pitchers, one of whom pitched last year in my own home backwater, plus a sprinkling of really good pitchers who might've been contenders in a slightly less remarkable year. I favor Clayton Kershaw on a purely statistical basis, plus the fact that only two other NL pitchers (Big Unit 2002, Jake Peavy 2007) have won the Pitching Triple Crown in the last 25 years. And both of them were Cy Young winners.

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