This article appears on September 23rd but is still littered with errors: -Pete Alonso had 50 HRs by this date -Fernando Tatis Jr. season was unfortunately finished in August. He would be a frontrunner were it not for that. -Two to three weeks ago, the argument could be made that Scherzer was the frontrunner for the NL CYA, but injuries and a few bad starts means the award is DeGrom’s as he is the NL leader in WAR, Ks, WHIP, and most advanced metrics. I don’t see the award going to anybody else. -Minor nitpick but I do not think Cole is a dark horse but a co-frontrunner alongside Verlander. Verlander will most likely win but Cole was something special this year and deserves it if he does win it.
I wonder if the author of this article actually did any research before writing it? Scherzer has been as dominant as deGrom? Maybe over his last 61 starts, although I’m not sure why that should matter. Maybe we should just be looking at their last 30 or so starts because that’s how many starting pitchers typically get in a season? And I’m pretty sure the Cy Young is a seasonal award, not a bi-seasonal award.
You must have gotten your AL ROY info from 3 months ago. Brandon Lowe missed all of July and August, as well as 3 weeks in September due to injury. He’s out of the running for ROY. In the latest MLB polling, Yordan received all 34 first place votes for AL ROY. He will almost certainly win the award unanimously. Not sure if you can edit your article, but it’s also incorrect that Lowe leads in RBI’s. Yordan has 77 RBI’s in 82 games, while Lowe only has 50. Lowe has hit 17 doubles and 17 home runs, while Alvarez has hit 25 doubles and 27 home runs. Alvarez has an OPS of 1.103, while Lowe has an OPS of .871. Alvarez leads Lowe in almost every category, both in raw production and advanced hitting metrics (hits, RBI’s, runs, walks, HR’s, doubles, slugging, average, on-base-percentage, lower strikeout rate, WAR, OPS+, WRC, at bats). Lowe might have had a legitimate shot at competing with Alvarez if he hadn’t missed 3 months due to injury, but now that Alvarez has caught up in plate appearances Lowe is out of the running.
…Lowe only has 314 plate appearances this season, Alvarez has 351.
If you want to argue Lowe is more valuable because he plays the field, that is one thing, but the "we haven’t seen enough of Alvarez" argument lots of writers trot out is bunk.
Zach • Sep 25, 2019 at 4:06 pm
This article appears on September 23rd but is still littered with errors:
-Pete Alonso had 50 HRs by this date
-Fernando Tatis Jr. season was unfortunately finished in August. He would be a frontrunner were it not for that.
-Two to three weeks ago, the argument could be made that Scherzer was the frontrunner for the NL CYA, but injuries and a few bad starts means the award is DeGrom’s as he is the NL leader in WAR, Ks, WHIP, and most advanced metrics. I don’t see the award going to anybody else.
-Minor nitpick but I do not think Cole is a dark horse but a co-frontrunner alongside Verlander. Verlander will most likely win but Cole was something special this year and deserves it if he does win it.
Sam • Sep 25, 2019 at 12:34 pm
I wonder if the author of this article actually did any research before writing it? Scherzer has been as dominant as deGrom? Maybe over his last 61 starts, although I’m not sure why that should matter.
Maybe we should just be looking at their last 30 or so starts because that’s how many starting pitchers typically get in a season? And I’m pretty sure the Cy Young is a seasonal award, not a bi-seasonal award.
Idyllic • Sep 24, 2019 at 9:04 pm
You must have gotten your AL ROY info from 3 months ago. Brandon Lowe missed all of July and August, as well as 3 weeks in September due to injury. He’s out of the running for ROY. In the latest MLB polling, Yordan received all 34 first place votes for AL ROY. He will almost certainly win the award unanimously. Not sure if you can edit your article, but it’s also incorrect that Lowe leads in RBI’s. Yordan has 77 RBI’s in 82 games, while Lowe only has 50. Lowe has hit 17 doubles and 17 home runs, while Alvarez has hit 25 doubles and 27 home runs. Alvarez has an OPS of 1.103, while Lowe has an OPS of .871. Alvarez leads Lowe in almost every category, both in raw production and advanced hitting metrics (hits, RBI’s, runs, walks, HR’s, doubles, slugging, average, on-base-percentage, lower strikeout rate, WAR, OPS+, WRC, at bats). Lowe might have had a legitimate shot at competing with Alvarez if he hadn’t missed 3 months due to injury, but now that Alvarez has caught up in plate appearances Lowe is out of the running.
Baseball • Sep 24, 2019 at 5:44 am
Jordan Alvarez?
N • Sep 24, 2019 at 5:45 am
Yordan
E • Sep 24, 2019 at 3:51 pm
I like Yordan, but he only has 300 ABs on the year, I feel like a larger sample size is necessary to win ROY
hutch • Sep 24, 2019 at 5:32 pm
…Lowe only has 314 plate appearances this season, Alvarez has 351.
If you want to argue Lowe is more valuable because he plays the field, that is one thing, but the "we haven’t seen enough of Alvarez" argument lots of writers trot out is bunk.