Decent article about NL Cy Young race-with Old School numbers and 3 different WARs!

[Bellhorn04]

Possible Red Sox target Blake Snell is in the mix, needless to say.

 

2023 NL Cy Young Award race breakdown

WWW.MLB.COM

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Last year, the NL Cy Young Award went unanimously to Miami’s Sandy Alcantara. It’s safe to say: That won’t be happening again. Not for Alcantara, out with an arm injury after a disappointing season, and certainly not unanimously, because this year’s race looks like it might be one of the

[notin]

Possible Red Sox target Blake Snell is in the mix, needless to say.

 

2023 NL Cy Young Award race breakdown

WWW.MLB.COM

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Last year, the NL Cy Young Award went unanimously to Miami’s Sandy Alcantara. It’s safe to say: That won’t be happening again. Not for Alcantara, out with an arm injury after a disappointing season, and certainly not unanimously, because this year’s race looks like it might be one of the

 

Think Snell is really going to be on the radar?

[Bellhorn04]

Think Snell is really going to be on the radar?

 

It's possible. They have to spend big on somebody, I think.

[moonslav59]

We should have traded for him when notin suggested.

[mvp 78]

Think Snell is really going to be on the radar?

 

Depends on who the CBO/GM is.

[Bellhorn04]

It's amusing how little response there is to threads like this. Folks would rather spend pages arguing about some dead horse issue LOL

 

For me the useful thing here is that we get 3 different WAR scores for each pitcher.

 

fWAR and bWAR plus dWAR - Deserved Run Average.

[moonslav59]

You stat nerds can hash this out.

[Bellhorn04]

You stat nerds can hash this out.

 

Yeah, all 4 or 5 of us.

[Bellhorn04]

Rick Porcello must be one of the all-time leaders in disparity between fWAR and bWAR. In his final short season of 2020 with the Mets he had a terrible bWAR and a very good fWAR. And he never got an offer in 2021, which was a little strange, I thought. Maybe he wasn't that interested himself, I don't know.