Published 11/21/2008
by joel kirstein
at Bleacher Report - MLB
Kudos to Cleveland Indians' hurler Cliff Lee on his 2008 AL CY Young Award win. Lee put up stellar numbers in a great comeback season with a 22-3 Won/Loss record and a mean 2.54 ERA.
Few people know or even remember than Cliff Lee along with a couple of other minor leaguers names Brandon Phillips and Grady Sizemore were traded by the Montreal Expos to the Tribe in midseason 2002, for Bartolo Colon, who went on to win a combined 20 games that season, half with the Indians and half with the Expos.
Lee joins a long and distinguished list of former Expos hurlers who have won the coveted MLB best pitcher award:
1974 Mike Marshall Los Angeles Dodgers 15–12 2.42 1995 Randy Johnson Seattle Mariners 18–2 2.48 1997 Pedro Martínez Montreal Expos ...
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