Tuesday, November 08, 2005

AL Cy Young

Surprisingly the voters looked past Bartolo Colons's "image problem" (he's huge) and actually gave him the AL Cy. I'm glad it was him and not Rivera (unless it's an Eric Gagne year it's hard to convince me that a closer is the best pitcher in either league) and though you can make a strong case for Santana (AL ERA leader, WHIP under 1, MLB strikeout leader) the 21 wins is probably what did it for Colon. You can argue whether it should've or not, but his other numbers were good enough to justify it, I think, especially with his team winning their division.