Well, Dave, 31 total wins from this year’s Cy Young winners. Looks like the statistical shift might be closer than you thought.

Now let’s see how Mauer and Pujols do.

I’d prefer not to pick the award at all, since I don’t think anyone here can really tell how much each manager really did, but if you’re going to pick it, at least don’t gush over one manager for one set of criteria and basically dismiss another who exceeds that criteria.

Would be curious to see what the remainder of your best player “ballot” would look like.

See, I disagree with this. I like the idea of giving the award based on performance rather than projections, but I look at it as…well, there are a lot of 27,28,29 year olds out there that had better years than he did. The only difference between Jones and them is they aren’t rookies. How many other 22 year olds performed like McCutchen? I think that’s another point that’s strongly in McCutchen’s favor – most kids his age are in college, or in the minors. Indirectly of course that factors projected production in, but the thought process that goes into it is strictly based on his actual production.

Santana, Martinez, Johnson and Schilling all had seasons this decade of higher k rates and lower walk rates than Greinke’s this year. Just on first look. halladay had fewer Ks but also fewer walks and a higher ratio, and his k rate wasn’t chopped liver. His higher FIP is much more due to home runs than fact he had a slightly lower K rate. Greinke’s home runs per flyball was 4.5%. Normalize that and his FIP comes back to earth somewhat. Indeed, his tRA* is slightly below Lincecum and Carpenter.

Of course none of this is particulalry important and again not to take away anything from Greinke, who should be AL Cy Young.

The correct answer is that Sabean is an idiot and would waste whatever money we saved, so obviously I hope Tim wins it, but hypothetically if we had a good GM that could use that money well…would it be ok for me to feel that way?