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If He Was Serious About the Cy Young, He’d Play With A Better Offense

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Sure, Felix Hernandez has pitched twelve more innings of significantly higher per-inning quality than C.C. Sabathia. But unlike Sabathia. he doesn’t Know How To Win (TM). I mean, give Sabathia a three-run lead and the game is basically over; he just smells the victory. If Sabathia had been pitching for the Mariners yesterday, they would have won 0 to -1!

(Actually, while three years ago you could be certain that Sabathia would win the Cy Young, this year the idea that you should actually vote for the best pitcher even if he’s saddled by a historically bad offense seems to be gaining mainstream currency. It will be interesting to see what happens.)

It’s also a little sad that what theoretically should have been a great Yankees/Rays series just didn’t mean that much — typified by the Yankees not using any of their best relievers going into the 7th down 3-2 yesterday. A staunch opponent for a long time, I’ve been convinced that given the recent rounds of expansion the wild card is probably a net positive. But we shouldn’t lose sight of what we’re giving up: the pennant race between great teams. Granted, it’s not that it can never happen if you can get a third team involved — if the Red Sox had not lost one fewer core players or got good years out of Lackey and Beckett, they would at least have been close enough that the Yankees couldn’t have treated the Rays series as a quasi-exhibition. But they will certainly be less much frequent, and that’s a shame.

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