No 20-game winners in 2009
by ZombieMonta on Oct 6, 2009 5:51 PM EDT
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Multiple exciting pennant races weren't the only things lacking in the 2009 baseball season. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, this was the first year in history (not abbreviated by a work shortage) in which no pitcher recorded at least 20 wins. Considering that Major League Baseball has been around for almost a century-and-a-half, that's pretty remarkable.
The two pitchers closest to 20 wins were Adam Wainwright and CC Sabathia, both of whom had 19 wins.
This is also the second straight year where no one hit 50 home runs. Remember earlier in the year when people were talking about Ryan Howard or Albert Pujols hitting 60 home runs and challenging Roger Maris? Turns out that you can't judge a 162-game season 30 games in... I do have to give props to Pujols though: top-three in home runs, RBI and batting average is pretty damn good and should make him the MVP.
(Photo by Jim McIsaac, Getty Images)
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King Felix also had 19 wins
The M’s gave him an extra start on the last day of the season to try to get more Cy Young appreciation…. We’ll see how that works out…
oddly
(or perhaps insanely) this makes me feel a little better about the cards’ pen blowing up last friday…
How long until
all baseball games play out like the All-Star game, where no pitcher goes more than 2 innings? I give it 20 years
"[The Giants] beat us down. We were beat by a grown-man team, a team we want to be like one day. They came in here and took it to us. Out-manned us, out-gunned us. ... It wasn't even close." - Raheem Morris, 9/27/09
Not like the old days
In an era when complete games are down and pitchers rarely go more than 6 innings there shouldn’t even be a Cy Young award in the first place. Based on the past efforts of pitchers back in the (not that far gone) day, today’s pitchers can’t even hold their jocks let alone expect to be awarded for limited playing time.
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