Let me get this
straight. The Mets Jacob deGrom wins the
NL Cy Young Award with a 10-9 record and 1.70 ERA. In that case, Steve Carlton should have been voted
king of the world for what he did with the Phillies in 1972.
Pitching for a
team that managed all of 59 wins, Carlton went 27-10 with a 1.97 ERA. Put another way, Carlton won nearly 46
percent of his team’s games that year to 13 percent for deGrom. Yet deGrom has a 10.0 WAR for his Cy Young
season, versus a mere 12.5 for Carlton.
I have no
particular love for Carlton, who off the diamond has flirted with anti-Semitism
and other extremist beliefs. But in
strictly baseball terms, deGrom’s Cy Young performance is nowhere near Carlton’s. If numbers don’t lie, then sabermetrics do.
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