Zack Greinke of the KC Royals
I think we’re all aware of which stats voters use to determine Cy Young winners. For the most part, it’s stats like ERA, wins, K’s, losses, and WHIP. There are a number of reasons why using only those stats doesn’t come close to telling the whole story – each of them is seriously flawed.
Let’s start with ERA. It’s used to calculate how many earned runs a pitcher gives up, on average, per 9 innings pitched. An earned run is a run that reaches base and scores without the assistance of an error. It’s pretty easy to see why this is flawed – all it takes into account are errors. It doesn’t consider range, BABIP, or luck. All of which are extremely important factors for a pitcher. If an outfielder falls over while attempting to catch a routine fly ball, and it ends up going for an inside the park home run, it’s the pitcher’s stats that suffer, as it’s considered an earned run, sin...
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