Greinke Wins AL Cy Young

To no one’s surprise, Zack Greinke just won the AL Cy Young Award.  I wrote a post a while back regarding the top AL Cy Young contenders.  While I said that I still liked Greinke best, I thought that the Mariners’ Felix Hernandez deserved a share of the first place votes.

Very few of the actual voters thought so.  Greinke received 25 of the 28 first place votes, with King Felix getting two and Justin Verlander the last one.

According to ESPN, the only other two pitchers receiving points were C. C. Sabathia and Roy Halladay.  Can’t argue with that: under the evaluation system I used, I had these five as the best the in the AL this year.  All in all, it looks like the AL Cy Young voters did an excellent job in evaluating the field.