AL Cy Young race?

[Angel Oracle]

Who wins the AL Cy Young?

[Ohtaniland]

To put all of the controversy aside Rick Porcello will win both the Cy Young and the AL MVP.

[LooneyPlatoons]

I don't see Jered Weaver on this poll.  Must be flawed

[SlappyUtilityMIF]

Hey Terry, This is Bob from Tarzana and I'm still waiting for the CJ Wilson props regarding the CY Young and AL MVP race!.....

 

 

 

I'll take your reply off air!

[Erstad Grit]

Verlander for comeback player of the year

[Angel Oracle]

Porcello has ComebackPOTY sewed up too.

[disarcina]

Kluber is pitching for the Division leading Cleveland Indians and has pitched well of late.

Porcello has somewhat quietly won 20 games -- he's got comeback player of the year locked up.

Just like this poll -- it will be a close race but I think Kluber wins it for Cy Young.

Wow -- those other guys got zero percent in this poll -- would sure Sale would get some votes, started out ok with ChiSox taking early AL Central lead during the first half, first month and a half.......that fade seems almost like last year.

of course, the Halos were never near contention so they did not have an opportunity to fade......so what's worse?  Being mired out of it early and NOT fading -- or starting out of the box hot, taking first place by 5 games and then start the fade so that by the All Star Break you're at .500 and heading for sub-.500 ???

for the season, I guess, the question is, is it better to be a 'has been' or a 'never was' ?

 

[mulwin444]

Kluber

[Docwaukee]

6 hours ago, CALZONE said:

To put all of the controversy aside Rick Porcello will win both the Cy Young and the AL MVP.

in your dreams.  

[Angel Oracle]

To me, it's close between Kluber and Porcello.   They have the best all around stats.

[Erstad Grit]

On 9/14/2016 at 4:39 PM, Angel Oracle said:

Porcello has ComebackPOTY sewed up too.

Why?

He never has really had a fantastic year (until now) or a horrible year. Wouldn't ComebackPOY need to go to a player who 

1. Was top tier

2. Became bottom tier

3. Returned to top tier

[arch stanton]

The Comeback Player of the Year Award was awarded by The Sporting News every season from 1965 to 2006, with one award given in each league every season. The award was created for a player who was once a star, but had to come back from either injury or ineffectiveness to reclaim his status. The criteria for the award are not well defined, and the choices have sometimes been criticized for either never having been star players in the first instance, or not having come back from a noticeable decline in their performance. An example of the first instance is Randy Jones, who won the award after his first good season in 1975, and who was never, by any stretch of the imagination, considered a star beforehand. In the second case, Richie Zisk won the award in 1981 for a performance that was not noticeably better than his previous seasons, especially when context is taken into account.

There is nothing that prevents a player form winning the award multiple times, and indeed this has been done by Norm Cash, Boog Powell, Bret Saberhagen, Andres Galarraga and Chris Carpenter. Rick Sutcliffe and Francisco Liriano have won the award in both leagues.

In 2005, Major League Baseball started awarding its own Comeback Player of the Year Awards, which quickly eclipsed those granted by The Sporting News (which were discontinued a year later). The winners of the two sets of Comeback awards were the same during the two seasons when both were in effect, 2005 and 2006.

 

http://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Comeback_Player_of_the_Year_Award