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The Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) will announce their Cy Young awards tonight. In an effort to capitalize on their announcement SB Nation is making its own announcement for our own slightly less prestigious award.
Needless to say we SB Nation writers are a smug bunch. We think you should completely disregard the real Cy Young awards in favor of ours or at very least confuse the two. Why? Well we loooove sabermetrics and we've seen the director's cut of Moneyball and anyone who hasn't seen said movie is an idiot. Sorry but that's just the way we feel.
As smart as we are, Dex and I voted simply by fWAR so that a player's value couldn't possibly be tarnished by our own opinions. No one would dare question fWAR. Unless of course they favor bWAR. With our new method of voting we'll be able to avoid last year's cyber bullying by other blogs in our network.
Now it's impossible for anyone to accuse us of being idiots, we've got fWAR in our corner.
F_ck. We just can't win.
We both voted for:
- Clayton Kershaw
- Gio Gonzalez
- Cliff Lee
- Wade Miley
- Johnny Cueto
And without further ado, here are the final results!
National League
| Player | Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R.A. Dickey | New York Mets | 13 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 157 | |
| Clayton Kershaw | Los Angeles Dodgers | 11 | 12 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 154 |
| Gio Gonzalez | Washington Nationals | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 129 |
| Johnny Cueto | Cincinnati Reds | 2 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 6 | 73 |
| Cliff Lee | Philadelphia Phillies | 5 | 4 | 3 | 26 | ||
| Matt Cain | San Francisco Giants | 1 | 5 | 4 | 17 | ||
| Cole Hamels | Philadelphia Phillies | 1 | 3 | 5 | 15 | ||
| Craig Kimbrel | Atlanta Braves | 1 | 2 | 6 | 13 | ||
| Wade Miley | Arizona Diamondbacks | 3 | 1 | 7 | |||
| Kris Medlen | Atlanta Braves | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Lance Lynn | St. Louis Cardinals | 1 | 1 |
American League
| Player | Team | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Verlander | Detroit Tigers | 23 | 1 | 2 | 171 | ||
| David Price | Tampa Bay Rays | 2 | 17 | 7 | 103 | ||
| Felix Hernandez | Seattle Mariners | 6 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 72 | |
| Chris Sale | Chicago White Sox | 4 | 10 | 4 | 36 | ||
| Jered Weaver | Los Angeles Angels | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 23 | |
| Fernando Rodney | Tampa Bay Rays | 2 | 3 | 4 | 18 | ||
| Matt Harrison | Texas Rangers | 1 | 3 | 5 | |||
| CC Sabathia | New York Yankees | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| Max Scherzer | Detroit Tigers | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Yu Darvish | Texas Rangers | 3 | 3 | ||||
| Jim Johnson | Baltimore Orioles | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Hiroki Kuroda | New York Yankees | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Jake Peavy | Chicago White Sox | 1 | 1 | ||||
| James Shields | Tampa Bay Rays | 1 | 1 |