August 18, 2010

CC Does What Aces Do

The Big Man went to 16 wins last night. He's quietly having a great season. I say quietly because he's not mentioned as a Cy Young candidate or as one of the top starters this year. But he's having as good a year as anybody in baseball.

One thing that you have to love about CC is he's consistent. In fact, he's the first Yankee pitcher to start at least 15 games in a row, pitch 6 or more innings, and give up 3 or less runs since Ron Guidry in 1978.

That's domination, homes.

But despite that string of success, a 16-5 record, and an ERA of 3.12, he gets overshadowd by the likes of Cliff Lee, David Price & Jon Lester. All those guys have less wins than CC but better ERA's & WHIP's.

It used to be that wins trumped everything in Cy Young voting. But as Greink)e showed last year, now it's about new sabremetric stats like WHIP and FIP that influence voters the most. So, even though CC may lead the league in wins, he'll probably come up short to those other guys. Especially Cliff Lee who has walked like 10 guys all year and has a WHIP under 1.00.

Even still, it's good to have a true ace like CC who you can pretty much expect to win every time out. Those guys are few and far between.

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