Jethro looks to be three wins away from 400 as of 9/1. It doesn't look like he'll take the POY unless (i) Mark Ponfick falls off, and (ii) Jethro can seperate himself from a pack that's chasing Ponfick.
BTW - Ponfick has got to be one of the more unlikely POY winners of all-time if he holds on. An extremely long career of being sort of average, with literally a handful of good ERA's to get on the Leaderboard in that five times, none higher than 6th. He has consistently been a very good WHIP pitcher, and he has a 307-240 career record to date. All that said... when you look at his career you'd be hard pressed to find a season where he would have placed in the Top 5 of any single POY vote.
He's *40* this season, and on the verge of winning his first.
Again, I feel a sadness over Kaiser retiring in the off season. A far, far, far better pitcher, _younger_, and with major milestones right within his reach.
Mets - you need to write somekind of backstory on why Kaiser retired. Perhaps tired of anti-German stuff on the road... or family issues (like the health of a child)... something. Maybe he doesn't want to talk about it, but perhaps the still active Dutch Kahle will final break down and explain it in a newspaper article.
John