The Cy Young award has become a joke.
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10018441-mlb-cy-young-award-2021-robbie-ray-corbin-burnes-named-al-nl-winners
The predicted winners won.
Who would you have chosen?
Ray and NOT Burnes.
I could have lived with Scherzer, but Wheeler was the deserving Cy Young. Scherzer because he went to another team in another Division, and pitched his team into the play-offs. Wheeler pitched an MLB-high 213 1/3 innings (Burnes had 167!) , had a few shutouts (you remember what those are, don't you?), and did not have anywhere near the Bullpen that Burnes had, which meant his value to the team was much greater than Burnes's value.
Durability and endurance should matter, especially in this Bullpen era, because it takes pressure off of the pen, but according to too many voters, it apparently does not.
Burnes was in a 6 man rotation, which means he had many times when he wasn't pitching every 5th day, the way Wheeler did.
Even then, Burnes averaged less than 6 innings per start, and Wheeler average pitching into the 7th
Wheeler led all MLB pitchers in bWAR (7.6) and strikeouts (247) while finishing 2nd in fWAR (7.3), FIP (2.59) and xERA (2.78).
Burnes was 2.43 ERA vs 2.78 ERA for Wheeler, but that difference is over 54 more innings pitched!
Wheeler recorded 139 MORE outs this season than Burnes, which is more than 5 games worth of outs!
And according to Jayson Stark, if Wheeler, Burnes and Scherzer never threw a pitch after the 6th inning, Wheeler would have posted and ERA of 2.32, which is better than Scherzer's 2.60 and Burnes's 2.34.
Sorry, but the younger voters can't see the baseball field anymore, as they are too focused on blades of grass.
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