Comments on: Felix and the Cy Young Award

By: jordan

jordan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:54:43 +0000

Hopefully Greinke gets lit up here soon… maybe Felix can leapfrog him if he puts up 7ER in a game…

By: Tyler Cox

Tyler Cox — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:26:42 +0000

Yeah, I totally believe Greinke deserves the Cy Young. Still, my fan bias really wants Felix to win it anyway. It’s nice to see the M’s receive some recognition occasionally.

By: joser

joser — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:18:09 +0000

I agree Greinke is the obvious choice for the AL CY… but then he was the obvious to start the Allstar game for the AL and he got hosed out of that. So who knows.

Whether it happens this year or not, Felix is going to win a Cy Young or two and pitch a no-hitter (at least); the real question is whether any of that happens while he’s still in an M’s uniform.

By: eric

eric — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:10:06 +0000

G Man,

I think your reading that backwards, which is of course how the voters probably will too:-)

If I read it correctly that isn’t their OPS vs each pitcher, it is their OPS overall.

So CC has had the easiest opposition and Halladay the toughest with Felix in the middle. But in reality how much difference is there between .748 and .777 as the range?

By: G-Man

G-Man — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:27:04 +0000

The aggregate OPS of batters faced:

Sabathia .748
Greinke .752
Hernandez .760
Verlander .763
Halladay .777

Not sure what to make of that.

I’m afraid of what some of the voters will make of that if CC is also the only one with 20 wins, OPS is about as sabermetric as some of those writers get, not to mention the dreaded East Coast Bias.

By: stoyboy

stoyboy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:11:50 +0000

Thanks DW and jvalentine for the information and that great website. You both are absoulutely right about Greineke and after last nights gem he definitely deserves the CY Young. Thanks.

By: Zeem

Zeem — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:13:18 +0000

The aggregate OPS of batters faced:

Sabathia .748
Greinke .752
Hernandez .760
Verlander .763
Halladay .777

Not sure what to make of that.

By: MKT

MKT — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:02:14 +0000

One thing I noticed while searching google for Felix fangraphs to get his page.

Did you mean: Feliz fangraphs

Hmm, so maybe we should say “Feliz Felixidad”.

By: Mike Snow

Mike Snow — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:54:17 +0000

I remember being disappointed that Gregg Olson beat out Griffey for Rookie of the Year. In retrospect, let’s just say that I can live with that disappointment.

By: Breadbaker

Breadbaker — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:45:40 +0000

I honestly don’t care. At 23, Felix has had a season that, in other years, would have been a perfectly fine Cy Young season. Compare Randy in 1997, who had a great season, just statistically behind Clemens. Greinke had a better season, fine. Felix can get him next year. Or not. If he’s in the range of this season as long as he’s an M, I’m one happy fan.