Sportswriters mess up NL Cy Young voting, Wainwright finishes THIRD

[Terry Lomax]

Am surprised Petrie hasn't already posted about the NL Cy Young
results, so I'll step in:

Wainwright got the most 1st place votes. Those writers did the right
thing, but the others are idiots.

I wonder how many writers didn't want to give the first two votes to
players from the same team?

How many would have voted Wainwright higher if he had reached 20
victories?

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/11/19/lincecum.cy.young.ap/index.html

NL Cy Young Voting Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd Total
Tim Lincecum Giants 11 12 9 100
Chris Carpenter Cardinals 9 14 7 94
Adam Wainwright Cardinals 12 5 15 90
Javier Vazquez Braves - 1 - 3
Dan Haren D-backs - - 1 1

[HankC]

On Nov 19, 6:54 pm, Terry Lomax <Loma...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Am surprised Petrie hasn't already posted about the NL Cy Young
> results, so I'll step in:
>
> Wainwright got the most 1st place votes.  Those writers did the right
> thing, but the others are idiots.
>
> I wonder how many writers didn't want to give the first two votes to
> players from the same team?
>
> How many would have voted Wainwright higher if he had reached 20
> victories?
>

> http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/baseball/mlb/11/19/lincecum.cy....

>
> NL Cy Young Voting Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd Total
> Tim Lincecum Giants 11 12 9 100
> Chris Carpenter Cardinals 9 14 7 94
> Adam Wainwright Cardinals 12 5 15 90
> Javier Vazquez Braves - 1  - 3
> Dan Haren D-backs - - 1 1

It's really Carpenter who should be steamed.

Since the voters obviously used saber-statistical-psychedelic methods,
Carp smoked Lincecum in both SO/BB and IP/HR ratios…

HankC