Both MOY votes were really close, for the first time in many years (I think)? Four or five managers in each league had legit cases for winning too.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:36 (four years ago) link
DeGrom wins the NL Cy Young, 29 out of 30 first place votes.
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:39 (four years ago) link
Ryu gets the other
Verlander wins in the AL, 17 first place to Cole's 13.
― omar little, Wednesday, 13 November 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
Cole wuz robbed!
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 14 November 2019 02:22 (four years ago) link
Cole and Verlander had all the first place and all the second place votes. I'm assuming it's the first time that's happened.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 14 November 2019 06:43 (four years ago) link
Don't know if they got it right, but I thought Verlander-Cole was every bit as close as it should have been. (And the NL vote was every bit as not-close as it should have been.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
i don't know of a counter-example off-hand, but that seems like it has to have happened before. pretty much anytime 2 pitchers stand head and shoulders above the rest of the league, right?
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 14 November 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
i feel like it would have happened w/Johnson and Schilling, maybe, but i only found the 2002 results thus far and Johnson was unanimous #1 and Schilling won almost all the second place votes but several guys threw votes to Smoltz and Gagne (lol), they were so dominant mowing down a couple of batters twice a week or so that year.
― omar little, Thursday, 14 November 2019 18:35 (four years ago) link
Cole and Verlander had all the first place and all the second place votes
see also trout and bregman
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 November 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
I figured NTBT was talking about teammates
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 November 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
oic
― mookieproof, Friday, 15 November 2019 02:54 (four years ago) link
Good laugh at the 6 writers who gave LeMahieu the third place over Semien.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 15 November 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
Actually I wasn't talking about teammates. But considering it happened again the very next day, maybe it isn't so rare?
Usually there's one near consensus pick or a few really good candidates and a highly split vote, no? I thought that two consensus candidates would be extremely rare.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Friday, 15 November 2019 12:09 (four years ago) link
maybe with the "numbers revolution" blah blah blah voters are becoming "more informed" (or something) thus there being less variance in their choices
― brimstead, Friday, 15 November 2019 19:32 (four years ago) link