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2017 AL Cy Young: Chris Sale or Corey Kluber?

Who wins the AL Cy Young?


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death2redemptions

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The AL Cy Young award has pretty much boiled down to either Chris Sale or Corey Kluber (I suppose one could argue Severino could be a dark horse candidate). Who do you believe will end up winning it?

2017 Season Stats

Chris Sale
17-8, 2.90 ERA (2.45 FIP) 308 K, 0.97 WHIP
214.1 IP, 7.16 K:BB 12.9 K/9 [7.7 fWAR 5.9 bWAR]

Corey Kluber
18-4, 2.25 ERA (2.49 FIP) 265 K, 0.87 WHIP
203.2 IP, 7.36 K:BB 11.7 K/9 [7.2 fWAR 7.9 bWAR]

In my mind it's incredibly close. Kluber has the superior ERA & WHIP while Sale has the better FIP & strikeout numbers.
 
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Topnotchsy

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I felt like before today, Sale may have still had the edge due to innings and K's, but wouldn't win if the vote was today due to Kluber and the Indians recent performance. At the time I am writing this Kluber has pitched 3-hit ball over 7 innings with 9 K's. That may shift things for me...
 
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death2redemptions

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I've been rooting for Sale for a long time now to finally win a Cy Young. It's kind of insane to think he still doesn't have one but after today's start Kluber may have a slight advantage, especially if you are only looking at the traditional stats like wins, ERA & WHIP (Sale has the strikeout title locked down).

Even so, if Sale can reach 300 strikeouts it will become even more difficult to deny him the Cy Young.

It's just really, really close...
 

bstanwood

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Sale had an ridiculously dominant start and kept it going until the past month or so when he became merely above average. I think Kluber pitching better in September will give him the voting edge. I'd cast my vote for Sale, due to how untouchable he was for the majority of the season
 

Austin

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Kluber will win barring a meltdown.

Sale will never win a Cy Young because he falls apart at the most important time every season.
He's too thin and has no durability. He always starts out hot, then his weak muscles and tendons wear out and he loses his greatness.

September is the only month during Sale's career in which he has a losing record and he has his worst ERA by far in September.
 
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linuxabuser

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Reported ^^^^^^^^

EDIT: Not the Sevy post... some random spammer *used* to have a comment right above this.
 
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death2redemptions

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Co-award?

I should have included that as a 3rd option. It's always possible.

Kluber will win barring a meltdown.

Sale will never win a Cy Young because he falls apart at the most important time every season.
He's too thin and has no durability. He always starts out hot, then his weak muscles and tendons wear out and he loses his greatness.

September is the only month during Sale's career in which he has a losing record and he has his worst ERA by far in September.

I don't follow Sale's monthly numbers so was not unaware of his struggles in September. Since I'm naturally curious about things like this I went to check out his career September splits. Sure enough, he has a career 7-14 record in September and while it's not "always" his worst month (Generally speaking his worst month, according to ERA, will either be April, August or September in any given season), his ERA tends to range from 3.50-5.00, with 2014 the only exception (2.52 ERA). So durability is certainly an issue with Sale. He needs to pack on some muscle weight this off-season.

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johnryno

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I should have included that as a 3rd option. It's always possible.



I don't follow Sale's monthly numbers so was not unaware of his struggles in September. Since I'm naturally curious about things like this I went to check out his career September splits. Sure enough, he has a career 7-14 record in September and while it's not "always" his worst month (Generally speaking his worst month, according to ERA, will either be April, August or September in any given season), his ERA tends to range from 3.50-5.00, with 2014 the only exception (2.52 ERA). So durability is certainly an issue with Sale. He needs to pack on some muscle weight this off-season.



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death2redemptions

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Sevy should win

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lol ****! The spam comment I was pointing at that had generic ****** or whatever the hell got deleted. I love Severino!

I'll say this, he's a sure thing to finish top 3 in voting.

Carrasco, Stroman & Verlander are the only other pitchers who I feel have an outside shot at getting some 3rd place votes but certainly nothing higher than that.

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