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mlb.mlb.com - 11/13/2008

Cliff Lee wins 2008 AL Cy Young Award

— mlb.mlb.com — Lee led the AL in wins with a 22-3 record and in ERA with a 2.54 mark... (more) Cliff Lee wins 2008 AL Cy Young Award

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Cliff Lee

Cy Young

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sports.espn.go.com - 11/11/2008

Tim Lincecum of San Francisco Giants wins National League Cy Young Award

— sports.espn.go.com — NEW YORK -- Tim Lincecum won the National League Cy Young Award by a comfortable margin Tuesday,... taking home pitching's highest honor in his second major league season. The slender kid with the whirling windup joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only ... (more) Tim Lincecum of San Francisco Giants wins National ...

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Cy Young

Tim Lincecum

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Brandon Webb

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sports.espn.go.com - 11/13/2008

Cliff Lee wins the 2008 AL Cy Young Award

— sports.espn.go.com — Demoted to the minors last year, Lee went a major league-best 22-3 this season with a 2.54... ERA for the Cleveland Indians. (more) Cliff Lee wins the 2008 AL Cy Young Award

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Cliff Lee

Al Reyes

Cy Young

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Open Cliff Lee Just Won the Cy Young Award Thread
Let's Go Tribe! — ... For a good laugh, head over to this article which explains why Roy Halladay is the deserving Cy Young winner.  Listen, I've heard the discussion several times.  There's no doubt that Halladay is a better pitcher but Cliff Lee just had a better year.  You can't fault someone for competition or what they would have done.  Or can you?  Anyway, the best part of the article: ...

Lee, Halladay really performed equally well
ESPN Feed: neyer rob — Our old friend Richard Griffin previews today's big announcement … Griffin next lays out his five arguments for Halladay over Lee. They're mostly nonsensical, including this gem: "Removing the stat lines from Halladay's six worst starts (an average of one per month), he was 19-7, with a 1.88 ERA in 191 1/3 innings." Well, yes. And if we remove Cliff Lee's six worst starts ( also an average of one per month), he was 19-1 with a 1.59 ERA. Columnists love to apply statistical tests, but they sometimes forget the necessary second step, which is to apply the tests fairly. ...

Cliff Lee caps improbable season with a Cy Young award
Big League Stew — ... In Lee, we got a bit of a different and somehow even more remarkable story. A year removed from what could have been a derailing stint in the minors, Lee returned to Cleveland and put up numbers (22-3, 2.54 ERA) that forced the otherwise-deserving Roy Halladay (20-11, 2.78) to settle for only four of the 28 first-place votes. Throw in the facts that Lee did it for a team that didn't have much of a chance of winning on days he didn't pitch and that he won his award the same week of Herb Score's passing and it's a cool story all the way around.  ...

Three Idiots Leave Halladay Off Their Cy Young Ballot
Drunk Jays Fans — ... clearly better. But no, three people left Halladay off the ballot in favour of either Matsuzaka, Mussina, Rivera, or fucking Ervin Santana. And though it's true that all of those guys had great seasons, come the fuck on. Come the fuck on. And I'm not even ranting on about this because I think it's a slight to Halladay or an affront to the team I support or anything like that-- I just think it's genuinely fucking stupid. Incidentally, we know that Doc had Richard Griffin's vote-- but do we know that Rob Neyer ripped Griff ...