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Originally Posted by TribeFanInNC
True enough. I guess I should have called it the most dominant modern closer year since the discussion was a comparison between closers and starters for Cy Young. Certainly guys from the 70s would have higher WARs under the same principle.
Your statement illustrates the same point though. Eichhorn pitched twice as many innings and his WAR is twice as high (roughly). In actuality, he would have been a better Cy Young candidate than Eckersley, who actually won one.
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I wasn't following Jays then, but have read on that year since. It just seems totally dominating. and being a MR it barely gets mentioned.
there was 2 more dominant starters that year, so he fairly did not deserve CY... be he should have gotten more recognition for it.. of course playing for Toronto in 86 probably didn't help...