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myteamrivals.typepad.com - 13 hours ago
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If we had been alive back in the
1890's we as Cardinal fans would've come out of...
the 80's thrilled with the 4 straight AA pennants and 2 (one disputed) World Championships. The 1890's would find us thrilled to finally get rid of Chris Von Der Ahe as the owner and happy that the Redbirds would ...
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Cardinal Leaders of the 1890's
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bluejays.gearupforsports.com - 15 hours ago
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Last July Toronto Blue Jays ace pitcher Roy
Halladay was the main media focus leading up to...
the Major League Baseball trade deadline. So much so that the frequent questions seemed to distract the pitcher, especially during his first starting appearance in an All-Star game, where ...
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Halladay to Block All Trades after Spring Training
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Halladay to Block All Trades after Spring Training
15 hours ago at Gear Up For Sports
…. Paying attention
15 hours ago at Only Baseball Matters
Odds and Ends: Halladay, Park, Duchscherer
18 hours ago at Phillies Nation
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stltoday.com - 38 hours ago
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TOWER GROVE — Besides offering headline magicians and
sportswriters alike a dangerous amount of puns this Holliday...
Season — see what I did there? so ingenious … — free-agent outfielder Matt Holliday has also proven ...
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Market Watch: Mapping Matt Holliday’s Options
yankeesredsox.com - 3 days ago
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Let's see, the Blue Jays have an ace
pitcher and the Yankees may be in the trade...
market for one. This has a familiar feel to it...oh that's right it's happened twice before- Roger Clemens and David Cone. In 1995, the Yankees traded for Cone in the midst of a pennant race. In ...
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We've Been Here Before
sonsofstevegarvey.com - 3 days ago
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From Howard Cole at BaseballSavvy.com : The Base
Ball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) has announced all...
but its Most Valuable Player awards, coming Monday and Tuesday, so giving them the benefit of the doubt on Joe Mauer and Albert Pujols, let's compare with the Internet Baseball ...
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Checkin' In with the IBWAA
azsnakepit.com - 4 days ago
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More photos » by Marcio Jose Sanchez -
AP Browse more photos » Congratulation to Gerardo Parra...
, who romped away with the Rookie of the Year 'Pittie, with 68% of the overall vote. I'm a little ...
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The 2009 'Pitties: The Cy Young Award
thebiglead.com - 5 days ago
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Roy Halladay: “The Red Sox are “putting on
a full-court press” to acquire Roy Halladay, according to...
a source, and are hoping to add the former Cy Young winner to the top of their rotation to go with Josh Beckett and Jon ...
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Red Sox and Yankees Set to Fight Over Roy Halladay
nybaseballdigest.com - 6 days ago
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Just mentioned this in the comments section and
wanted to expand on this thought. With all the...
arguments about advanced statistics and how to evaluate a pitcher why not just eliminate the W/L column? That’s right just take the stat and throw it in the garbage. Even I have to admit that ...
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How About Eliminating Pitcher Won/Loss Record?
pinstripealley.com - 6 days ago
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The Red Sox are "putting on a full-court
press" to acquire Roy Halladay, according to a source,...
and are hoping to add the former Cy Young winner to the top of their rotation to go with Josh Beckett and Jon Lester. "They would love to get it wrapped up before the winter meetings (beginning ...
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The Red Sox are "putting on a full-court press" to ...
fangraphs.com - 6 days ago
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In an article on Yahoo Sports yesterday, Tim
Brown discusses Tim Lincecum ’s upcoming arbitration filing. As...
a two time Cy Young winner with super-two status, Brown argues that Lincecum blows up the system of comparable pitchers used to ...
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Lincecum and Arbitration
yankees.gearupforsports.com - 6 days ago
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I know what everyone is saying but I’m
not saying it. Let’s move past the all too...
obvious seasonal pun and allow me to state that I do not want the Yankees to sign Roy Halladay. I don’t think the Yankees need him, nor do I think he’ll make the Red Sox good enough to take back first ...
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Yanks Should NOT Sign Halladay
nydailynews.com - 6 days ago
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The free-agent market may not be keeping the
hot stove season warm, but the Roy Halladay sweepstakes...
are starting to get interesting. A source told the Daily News that the Red Sox are “putting on a full-court press” to acquire Halladay, hoping to add ...
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Will Yankees or Sox have a happy Halladay?
bats.blogs.nytimes.com - 7 days ago
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The snubs keep coming for the 2009 Mets.
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In Awards Season, Mets Likely to Be Shut Out Again
keitholbermann.mlblogs.com - 7 days ago
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I got asked a lot about the contrasts
between sports and politics. Here's one hard-to-believe truth: the...
elections are far more screwed up in sports. Just when I thought a baseball vote could no longer surprise me, The Writers' Association manages to ...
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Elect A New System
sportscollectorsdaily.com - 7 days ago
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He's got plenty of time on his hands
these days and future Hall of Famer Greg Maddux...
will use some of it to sign baseball cards for Upper Deck's upcoming baseball products.
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Maddux Signs Autograph Deal with Upper Deck
umpbump.com - 7 days ago
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This one time, I emailed Keith Law and
asked him if he’d be willing to do an...
interview and he didn’t respond to my email until six months later! He was all, “sorry I got behind on my emails.” And I was all, “Oh, whatevs, Klaw. I didn’t want that interview ...
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We’re with you, Keith Law.
nydailynews.com - 7 days ago
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It seemed a foregone conclusion that Albert Pujols
would claim the NL MVP award, but filling out...
a ballot can be challenging. Unllike Cy Young or Rookie of the Year, which have three slots, MVP ballots have 10. This year, I received one of 32 ...
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NL MVP ballot
fackyouk.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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In the six months I've been writing here,
rarely have Jay and I disagreed on any major...
points. We disagreed about a hypothetical recall of Austin Jackson in the wake of a potential Melky Cabrera injury, and we differ as to how the Yankees should approach Hideki Matsui this off-season. But in ...
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Counterpoint: Who Cares?
perfectknight.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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First, an announcement. I'm now contrbuting at Baseball
Reflections . The gig is for more general baseball...
content, and is a weekly item. So far, there've been two articles, one on Jorge Posada , one on instant replay . Lots of good stuff over at the site. Stop by and take a look. I keep ...
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The Cy Young, Sabermetrics, and Evaluating Pitchers
cardinal70.com - 7 days ago
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If you've not seen them, my selections for
the Cardinal Bloggers Awards are below. The votes are...
coming in from across the blogosphere and we should have some results maybe this weekend. I briefly touched on it yesterday , but I want to talk a ...
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More Thoughts On The Cy Young
morehardball.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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After reading my post on why Zack Greinke
should win the AL Cy Young Award, the baseball...
writers association responded by...voting Zack Greinke the 2009 AL Cy Young Award Winner. It is for this reason that I have to wholeheartedly believe that once again the writer's referred to my post on ...
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The Writer's Take Note Again...AL MVP
mlb.fanhouse.com - 7 days ago
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by Jeff Fletcher Since Zack Greinke and Tim
Lincecum won Cy Young awards this week with modest...
victory totals, there has been much discussion about how baseball writers are finally moving into the 21st century and looking beyond the win column. ...
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What the FIP? Cy Voters Still Missed
roarfrom34.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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Joe Posnanski has awarded Jason Berken his "anti-Cy
Young" award, noting that "Basically, the whole league was...
an MVP candidate when Jason Berken was on the hill." Posnanski's says he's not giving up on the young O's hurler: "Berken was only a rookie, ...
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Jason Berken, the anti-Cy Young?
morehardball.blogspot.com - 7 days ago
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A fitness fanatic, Carlton trained by practicing kung
fu, doing isometric exercises, and developing strength in his...
hands by working them in buckets of rice. It worked for him: The 6-foot-4, 210-pound left-hander became the first pitcher to win four Cy Young Awards. After pitching briefly ...
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Countdown to Christmas: #32 Steve Carlton
nybaseballdigest.com - 7 days ago
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Over the weekend I discussed why the controversy
over the NL Cy Young award is a good...
thing. Although I have issues with certain advanced statistics I think there is nothing wrong with an individual who believes in using it to determine a player’s effectiveness. In the case of pitching you read ...
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Applaud Forward Thinking but Don’t Dismiss Wins
baseballreflections.com - 7 days ago
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Image via Wikipedia Congratulations to Tim Lincecum for
winning the 2009 NL Cy Young award, just a...
couple short days after Zack Greinke ’s victory for the AL counterpart. But an even bigger congratulations is in order. A congratulations to the BBWAA voters. ...
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Wins and Loses: A Decline in Value?
baseball-reference.com - 7 days ago
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Year Age Tm League AL - American League
(1901-present) NL - National League (1876-present) AA - American...
Association (1882-1891) UA - Union Association (1884) PL - Players League (1890) FL - Federal League (1914-1915) NA - National Association ...
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Curt Welch Statistics and History
baseball-reference.com - 7 days ago
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Year Age Tm League AL - American League
(1901-present) NL - National League (1876-present) AA - American...
Association (1882-1891) UA - Union Association (1884) PL - Players League (1890) FL - Federal League (1914-1915) NA - National Association ...
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Silver King Statistics and History
baseball-reference.com - 7 days ago
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Year Age Tm League AL - American League
(1901-present) NL - National League (1876-present) AA - American...
Association (1882-1891) UA - Union Association (1884) PL - Players League (1890) FL - Federal League (1914-1915) NA - National Association ...
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Jack Stivetts Statistics and History
mlbnotebook.com - 7 days ago
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Latest at RotoGraphs is up, in which I
explore which Cy Young winner should be taken first...
in fantasy drafts next year. Check it out : During drafts last year, Lincecum was taken in the early to mid second round, with Greinke going in the seventh or eighth round. There is no chance that ...
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FanGraphs: Greinke or Lincecum in 2010?
hardballtimes.com - 8 days ago
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Along with Zack Greinke 's 2009 American League
Cy Young Award came a widely-circulated article by Tyler...
Kepner in the New York Times. In the article, Brian Bannister is quoted, "So a lot of times, Zack would pitch for a fly ball at our park instead of a ground ball, just because the zone rating ...
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Greinke and fly balls
tigerblog.net - 8 days ago
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I was surprised as anyone that Miguel Cabrera,
of all people, got the lone non-Mauer first place...
vote for the AL MVP. My guess is it might be the same guy who voted Justin Verlander first for the Cy Young but remember, two Detroit voters picked Magglio Ordonez over Alex Rodrigue back in 2007. ...
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The Case Against Miguel Cabrera
theghostofmoonlightgraham.wordpress.com - 8 days ago
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Mauer, who led the AL in avg. (.365),
OBP (.444), and slugging percentage (.587) received 27 out...
of 28 first-place votes to become not only the second Minnesota Twin to win the award since 2006, but he also became just the second catcher in the last 33 years (Thurman Munson) to win the award.
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Joe Mauer Wins AL MVP; Was There Any Doubt?
stltoday.com - 8 days ago
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TOWER GROVE — While a lot of attention
was paid to the pitchers a few of the...
National League Cy Young Award voters did and didn’t vote for, lost in that hubbub was how much money one pitcher made because of one single vote. By receiving ...
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How One Cy Young Vote Could Be Worth $21 Million
hardballtimes.com - 8 days ago
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Pop quiz, hot shot: There's a catcher who
wins the Gold Glove, the batting title and leads...
the league in on base and slugging percentage. What do you call him? MVP . That is, unless you're the (presumably) Detroit-area voter who put Miguel Cabrera in front of Mauer in first place, costing ...
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Mauer Power
beyondtheboxscore.com - 8 days ago
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This year’s NL Cy Young vote was one
of the closest in history, but 1987’s vote was...
the closest ever. Let’s take a quick retrospective. Rank Tm Vote Pts 1st Place Share W L ERA G GS SV IP 1 Steve Bedrosian PHI 57.0 9.0 48% 5 3 2.83 65 ...
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The last time the NL Cy Young was this close
stupidsportsblog.blogspot.com - 8 days ago
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If you were with us earlier, you may
recall a column penned by the OC Register's Mark...
Whicker. Long story short, he used Jaycee Dugard , the girl was who raped and made to live in a shed for nearly two decades, as a premise for a horrendous retelling of the last two decades in sports she ...
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Remember Mark Whicker? You might enjoy this then
bluejays.gearupforsports.com - 8 days ago
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In July of the 2009 Major League Baseball
season the name flying around the rumor mill as...
the one leaving his team via trade was that of Toronto Blue Jays ace pitcher Roy Halladay. The speculation began when than general manager J.P Ricciardi let the baseball media know that he was ...
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Halladay Trade Talk…Again
danstake.com - 9 days ago
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Anyone who believes mathematics is the world’s universal
language clearly hasn’t been following the news lately. Depending...
on where you are or what channel you’re watching, the numbers have Sarah Palin as either the most popular woman on the planet, the most despised woman on the planet or as ...
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Have numbers become too subjective?
baltimoresportsreport.com - 9 days ago
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Cy Youngs So, I was 0-2 in my
picks for the Cy Young this year. Strangely, I’m...
not that mad. Not because there wasn’t money on the line, but because the two young stars who won it were absolutely deserving of the award. Zack Greinke and Tim Lincecum. These are two exciting pitchers with ...
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The Big Picture: MLB Honors
nybaseballdigest.com - 9 days ago
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Howard Megdal of SNY joins me in his
usual Sunday night spot as we talk about the...
latest from the Hot Stove. We will kick off the show discussing the NY Cy Young Award controversy with ESPN’s Keith Law and Will Carroll of BP. I also want Howard’s take on collusion and the ...
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Hot Stove Sunday Tonight @7pm
bats.blogs.nytimes.com - 9 days ago
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Obviously, there is no substitute for pure talent.
But in Greinke, Bannister’s teammate, we are seeing what...
can happen when off-the-charts talent meets sophisticated understanding of numbers.
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The Lessons of the Cy Young Awards
delawareonline.com - 9 days ago
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Upon winning the American League Cy Young Award
last week, Kansas City Royals ace Zack Greinke endeared...
himself to new-age statistical analysts everywhere. Indirectly, he also may have explained Cole Hamels' struggles. During a conference call Tuesday ...
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Lauber: Newfangled pitching stat shows Cole Hamels ...
bleacherreport.com - 10 days ago
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November 19th marked an important turning point in
not only Tim Lincecum's baseball career, but his life...
as well. The 25 year old ace of the San Francisco Giants won his second NL Cy Young in as many years, becoming the first pitcher in Major League ...
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The Evolution of the Greatest Mane in Sports: The Story ...
fromthedugout.freedomblogging.com - 10 days ago
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The St. Louis Post-Dispatch talked to reliever Kyle
McClellan, who blew a 6-1 lead in Adam Wainwright’s...
final start this year. That would have been Wainwright’s 20th victory. And maybe that would have enhanced Wainwright’s chances of ...
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Cards’ reliever says he cost Wainwright
marlinmaniac.com - 10 days ago
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This from Joe Frisaro of MLB.com. Without getting
into specific dollar figures, [Josh Johnson's agent Matt Sosnick]...
said the Marlins offered three years with a club option for a fourth. [Josh Johnson's] camp was hoping the deal would at least match what Kansas City’s Zack Greinke signed ...
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Marlins offered a fourth year club option to Johnson
mlbbabble.com - 10 days ago
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mlbbabble.com —
The author discusses Dan Haren's lack of votes
for the NL Cy Young Award....
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Dan Haren Got No Love
baseballjunkdrawer.blogspot.com - 10 days ago
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We all know about the Atlanta Braves of
the 1990's, but what other teams were particularly good...
at compiling winners of the highest honor a pitcher can receive?
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Baseball Junk Drawer: Teams With the Most Cy Young Winners
thebiglead.com - 10 days ago
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The BBWAA has acknowledged the internet folk of
late, but their glasnost hit a snag in this...
year’s NL Cy Young voting. Both ESPN.com’s Keith Law and Baseball Prospectus’ Will Carroll bucked conventional wisdom slightly, leaving St. Louis ...
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Two Internet Writers May Have Cost Chris Carpenter the ...
mlb.mlb.com - 10 days ago
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By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com 11/20/09 6:58 PM
EST CHICAGO -- The Cubs are one of the...
teams the Blue Jays have contacted regarding former Cy Young Award winner Roy Halladay. Before Cubs fans start salivating at the prospect of having the dominant ...
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Halladay rumors reach Cubs' door






























