Corbin Burnes wins the NL Cy Young. Zack Wheeler finishes second. Burnes got 151 points. Wheeler got 141. A very close vote.
— Todd Zolecki ( @ToddZolecki ) November 17, 20211
Corbin Burnes wins one of the closest Cy Young races ever. Only other time the top 2 finishers tied in first-place votes was 1981 (Tom Seaver/Fernando Valenzuela). Here’s the complete voting breakdown 5https://t.co/XYqr7Podh85
— Jayson Stark ( @jaysonst ) November 17, 2021
0 votes for Ranger
one 5th place vote for Wheeler really seems incongruent. Even a 4th place one makes me raise an eyebrow, but 5th?
I guess maybe not... I dont even know how the ballots work anymore. I thought they could vote for anyone.. Im thinking ballots changed and I didnt realize it. I thought it went deeper than 5
I think it is a top 5 for Cy Young and top 10 for MVP on the ballots open to anyone. They just name the top 3 votegetters after all the ballots are done.
Yeah.. I know that BBREF shows in the notes like players finishing 22nd in MVP voting and stuff. BUt if votes only went 5 deep than Suarez was never gonna get a vote.
The total list goes nine deep. Only 30 voters, they each get to pick five. Lauber's ballot was Wheeler Burnes Scherzer Buehler Woodruff.
Buehler did not get any first place votes; Gausman got one third-place vote, and Woodruff two fourth-place votes. The writer in Cincinnati had Wheeler 5th. Had a few more people voted him 2nd or 3rd he would have won it.
Harper won it. Well deserved. Can’t imagine what his numbers would have like if he hadn’t been beaned last season.
Fun MVP fact:
— Jayson Stark ( @jaysonst ) November 18, 2021
In the history of baseball, only one player had ever won an MVP award for two different teams before his 30th birthday: Barry Bonds.
Tonight, Bryce Harper became the second.
Bryce Harper of the @Phillies is the youngest player in MLB history to win MVP with 2 different teams.
— Stats By STATS ( @StatsBySTATS ) November 18, 2021
He also joins Jimmie Foxx as the only players in MLB/NBA/NFL/NHL history to win MVP with 2 different teams that missed the playoffs that year.
Mr. Salisbury voting Soto 7th......
https://twitter.com/MLBRandomStats/status/1461477085915009025/photo/13
Funny from a homer standpoint, not so much because it was anti-Nats but because he clearly put a lot of emphasis on the value of playing on a postseason team... except at the top! I suppose his argument is that they were at least contending (ditto Tatis, though that trajectory was pretty different).
Pretty weak argument to me. Full of cliches and weak arguments. It is like he blames Soto for the Nats getting a bunch of injuries and trading everyone.
I probably would have voted for Bryce too, but there is no way Soto should have been near 7th. Some old guys really need to be retired from the award voting circuit.
I agree, it didn’t matter, but I would remove him from voting for this. These are the things that make these awards always a little questionable.
I remember when Schmidt didn’t quite get a unanimous vote and one of the guys said “I didn’t want to see him get unanimous”.
Was anyone else shocked by seeing Schmidt presenting the award. I think he is about 72 now, but he really looks like he aged this year. Maybe just the camera they used, but he really looked like the last couple years really changed him.
