WAY TO GO TIMMY!!!!!
At least one bright spot for the G-men.
25% of the teams wins is almost Steve Carlton-esque.
80% win percentage on a team that barely wins 45% of the time.
The G-men only win 40% of the time in games not pitched by Lincecum.
He clearly deserved it.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081111/ap_on_sp_ba_ne/bbn_nl_cy_young_10;_ylt=A0geujHu.BlJ4RYBBwCspph4
NEW YORK - Tim Lincecum won the National League Cy Young Award by a comfortable margin Tuesday, taking home pitching's highest honour in his second major league season.
The slender kid with the whirling windup joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only San Francisco Giants pitchers to win a Cy Young.
Lincecum received 23 of 32 first-place votes and 137 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks got four first-place votes and finished second with 73 points.
Listed at five-foot-11 and 160 pounds, tiny by today's standards for a big-league pitcher, Lincecum defied detractors - and the laws of physics - by firing 97 m.p.h. fastballs past one hulking slugger after another.
The 24-year-old right-hander was 18-5 with a 2.62 ERA and a major league-best 265 strikeouts, remarkable numbers for a fourth-place team that finished 72-90.
No comments:
Post a Comment