Johnson Robbed by Clemens

Randy Johnson who finished the season 16-14 with a 2.60 era and a major league leading 290 strikeouts. Finished a far second to Roger Clemens(18-4, 2.98 ERA, 218 strike outs) in the NL Cy Young voting. Despite having a third of a run lower era and 72 more strikeouts, and only 2 less wins on a clearly inferior DiamondBacks team, Johnson loses this race 140 to 97.

This shouldn't have been close. Johnson clearly had the better year. Put on a better team Johnson would have easily won 20+ games. Arizona scored two runs or fewer in 17 of his 35 starts. If the era and strikeouts was closer, it would be ok to reward Clemans. But, clearly he did not deserve this award. A decent year for someone who was supposed to be retired, but sadly the Cy Young is supposed to go to the best pitcher in the league, and this year that pitcher was Johnson.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=1919168
- posted by Doug @ 1:10:00 PM