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Originally Posted by Palaaemon
Bird,
Couple of things.
1}. First a question about Xiao-mei Mah. What in the hell is wrong with Philadelphia?!? The man gets FORTY-EIGHT knocks and he only ends up with 15 rbis and 15 runs for the month of May?!?  Is there nobody on base to drive in? Is there nobody able to hit to drive HIM in? How many walks did he get for the month? Where does he hit in the L/R lineups? Inquiring minds gotta know my man!I
2} Second concerns Jamel McNeil. If you are like me you turn off relievers/closers being able to win a Most Outstanding Pitcher award since they have their own award. My question being if you have turned it off, do you believe that Jamel would have won that award after any year had the award been active for relievers/closers? If so how many? Any other reliever/closers? I know it's impossible to quantify the voting results so I am just asking for your gut feeling.
Have a great night!
Palaaemon |
Thanks, as always, for the good questions. It's always great when someone posts something that makes me think more in depth about something I hadn't given much thought yet.
#1 I'll do some research on later when I'm in front of the game.
#2 also, but to the best of my memory I do think I excluded relievers from being able to win the Pitcher of the Year award. My sense right now is that McNeil has had a least one or two seasons when he might have won it if he had been eligible. He's probably the only reliever thus far of whom that is true, but a few others might have had a season where they would have been in the running and might have finished 2nd or 3rd.
(On a related note, I should also say that I don't currently allow pitchers qualify for the MVP award.)