This is cool. Not so long ago, the Cy Young winner tended to go to someone with a good W-L percentage and/or a high win total. The AL had a stretch of this when I first got into baseball: Mike Flanagan in 1979, Steve Stone in 1980, Pete Vukovich in 1982 and Lamarr Hoyt in 1983.
Speaking of Kyle Hendricks. The fact that no one talks about his ERA title year and debates whether or not he should've won is insane. The only reason I can think for him to not win that year is not as many innings but he doesn't even get talked about. Possibly the best pitcher to never be an all-star.
My boy was 90th percentile too. Avoid carrying him around on your throwing arm hip through the next couple years… mine started separating my shoulder, and once I started holding him on my non throwing side, the arm problems went away almost instantly!
Oh yes, my boy is 4 and almost 60 lbs…. Still has me carry him around from time to time. My wife can’t put him in and out of the shopping cart and similar lifting of him. Teaching your boy to roller skate asap is better (if you’re into that) because helping him learn will be much easier the lighter he is.
@ funny you say that, as my younger boy is in the 20ish percentile, and he’s so dang specially aware and physically capable. He would pick his pacifier up with his mouth standing up if he had both hands full! Also tough as nails having a big brother close in age, but twice his size. Hope to hear more updates on your boy as he grows up!
Stuff+ is nonsensical. In terms of stuff how is Kyle Hendricks alright but guys throwing 95 aren't? Worst stuff+ in baseball is Chris Flexen. I believe he's low but #1 worst I have a hard time believing. Worst pitching bot pitcher in 2024 was a reliever on the Cubs who had an ERA in the 2s before getting hurt. Command+ has nothing to do with where you're aiming, just whether or not you hit the edge of the zone, accident or not. Stuff+'s inconsistency and the fact that you can look up stats on a pitch, telling you how real hitters reacted to the pitch makes stuff+ useless unless you just want to be like meh computer told me so so it's true which is 90% of front office people nowadays.
He also strikes out like a reliever as a starter. He is a strikeout anomoly of strikeout anomolies. So unless you're Blake Snell, a high walk rate as a starter is bad
Best way to win a cy young, have a ton of overrated strikeouts. That's how Corbin Burnes ends up winning over Zack Wheeler. To me, strikeouts, dominating stuff and FIP doesn't belong in Cy Young races. It's best year, not best expected year, not best year if fielders suddenly stopped existing. ERA and innings pitched should matter most but now it's strikeouts and FIP, even though if you try to strike everyone out you're going to throw more pitches and therefore throw less innings. The days of starters like Justin Verlander throwing 90 in the first and 99 in the 9th are dead unless people value innings/outs over strikeouts. Analytics will never agree with that so we'll just continue the cycle of burning young men's arms like it's nothing with no care til the end unless it gets regulared which I think would be horrible. Already enough rules made to take freedom away. P.S. Kill the 3 batter minimum rule everyone hates it and it's stupid.
This is cool. Not so long ago, the Cy Young winner tended to go to someone with a good W-L percentage and/or a high win total. The AL had a stretch of this when I first got into baseball: Mike Flanagan in 1979, Steve Stone in 1980, Pete Vukovich in 1982 and Lamarr Hoyt in 1983.
Speaking of Kyle Hendricks. The fact that no one talks about his ERA title year and debates whether or not he should've won is insane. The only reason I can think for him to not win that year is not as many innings but he doesn't even get talked about. Possibly the best pitcher to never be an all-star.
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My boy was 90th percentile too. Avoid carrying him around on your throwing arm hip through the next couple years… mine started separating my shoulder, and once I started holding him on my non throwing side, the arm problems went away almost instantly!
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Are you talking about the Adam Sandler netflix movie
Oh yes, my boy is 4 and almost 60 lbs…. Still has me carry him around from time to time. My wife can’t put him in and out of the shopping cart and similar lifting of him. Teaching your boy to roller skate asap is better (if you’re into that) because helping him learn will be much easier the lighter he is.
I didnt think of that... oh god. Hes doing gynastics for sure when hes young. Body control is going to be TOUGH.
@ funny you say that, as my younger boy is in the 20ish percentile, and he’s so dang specially aware and physically capable. He would pick his pacifier up with his mouth standing up if he had both hands full! Also tough as nails having a big brother close in age, but twice his size. Hope to hear more updates on your boy as he grows up!
Stuff+ is nonsensical. In terms of stuff how is Kyle Hendricks alright but guys throwing 95 aren't? Worst stuff+ in baseball is Chris Flexen. I believe he's low but #1 worst I have a hard time believing. Worst pitching bot pitcher in 2024 was a reliever on the Cubs who had an ERA in the 2s before getting hurt. Command+ has nothing to do with where you're aiming, just whether or not you hit the edge of the zone, accident or not. Stuff+'s inconsistency and the fact that you can look up stats on a pitch, telling you how real hitters reacted to the pitch makes stuff+ useless unless you just want to be like meh computer told me so so it's true which is 90% of front office people nowadays.
Blake Snell has won two Cy Youngs with an elevated walk rate.
He also strikes out like a reliever as a starter. He is a strikeout anomoly of strikeout anomolies. So unless you're Blake Snell, a high walk rate as a starter is bad
I'll keep this in mind for when I get drafted to pitch in the majors
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Cy Young winner Mitchell Keller has the stuff.
I already tried that once! This could be the year!
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This is a solid example.
Best way to win a cy young, have a ton of overrated strikeouts. That's how Corbin Burnes ends up winning over Zack Wheeler. To me, strikeouts, dominating stuff and FIP doesn't belong in Cy Young races. It's best year, not best expected year, not best year if fielders suddenly stopped existing. ERA and innings pitched should matter most but now it's strikeouts and FIP, even though if you try to strike everyone out you're going to throw more pitches and therefore throw less innings. The days of starters like Justin Verlander throwing 90 in the first and 99 in the 9th are dead unless people value innings/outs over strikeouts. Analytics will never agree with that so we'll just continue the cycle of burning young men's arms like it's nothing with no care til the end unless it gets regulared which I think would be horrible. Already enough rules made to take freedom away. P.S. Kill the 3 batter minimum rule everyone hates it and it's stupid.
There are about 20-25 cy young winners that were worse than 2016 porcello everyone just brings it up because it’s the most recent
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Who are some of the players you think can win a cy young next season according to your metrics
the thing ever y cy young winner has in common is they won a cy young
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