NL Cy Young Voting
Giants ace Tim Lincecum had enough support across the voting board to win his second straight NL Cy Young Award. A breakdown of the voting:
Player, team | 1st-place votes | Total |
---|---|---|
Tim Lincecum, Giants | 11 | 100 |
Chris Carpenter, Cardinals | 9 | 94 |
Adam Wainwright, Cardinals | 12 | 90 |
Others receiving votes: Javier Vazquez, |
Yup, throw out those old baseball cards. Wins and losses don't mean much anymore when it comes time for voters to pick baseball's best pitchers. It's all about WHIP, FIP, BABIP and other lines of alphabet soup.
"It's turned into a game of complete numbers and statistics and what people do with that," Lincecum said.
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