Major League Baseball Cy Young Award announced on the 12th Will Darvish and others win? November 11th 17:07
The Cy Young Award for the Major League Baseball pitcher of the year will be announced on the 12th of Japan time.
In the National League, Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish and in the American League, Twins pitcher Kenta Maeda are among the finalists, and it will be interesting to see if they will be the first Japanese players to win the award.
The Cy Young Award is given to the pitchers of both leagues who were most active in the regular season, and is considered to be the highest honor for pitchers of the major leagues, and is selected by a reporter who belongs to the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Voting has already ended, and the top three players from both leagues were announced last week as finalists, with two pitchers, Darvish and Maeda.
This is the second time that Darvish has been the final candidate since 2013, when he joined the Mariners pitcher Hisashi Iwakuma at the time, and the second time that multiple Japanese players have been included in the final candidate.
Pitcher Darvish has won the title with the most wins for the first time as a Japanese player with a record of 8 wins and 3 losses and an ERA of 2.01 this season in the 8th year of the major league, and this is also the first Cy Young Award for a Japanese player. Is also expected to receive the award.
On the other hand, pitcher Maeda marked a good result of 6 wins and 1 loss and an ERA of 2.70 this season in the fifth year of the major league, and became the final candidate for the Cy Young Award for the first time.
However, in the American League, Indians pitcher Shane Bieber dominates the titles in the three major categories of wins, ERA, and strikeouts, and is expected to win the award.
The Cy Young Award will be announced on the 11th, starting at 8 am on the 12th, Japan time.
National League is a melee
This season's Cy Young Awards are in a melee in the National League, where Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish is the final candidate, and some reporters who voted said, "It was the most difficult vote ever."
Gordon Whitmeier, who has been in charge of the Cubs for 14 years at NBC, a national television station, voted for the Cy Young Award, but recalled that it was "worst."
"I've voted many times before, but it was the
hardest to choose. It's really hard to choose between Darvish and Bauer," said National. The league has indicated that it will be a one-on-one battle between Darvish and Reds' Bauer.
"I can't say who I voted for," said Whitmeier. "There's a 50% chance of winning a Darvish, but I think Bauer will win if he talks to some of the reporters who voted." talked.
The reason is, "This year, due to the influence of the new coronavirus, the reporter did not cover all the expeditions, and the actual sight of Darvish pitching was 10 out of 30 people in charge of the central district. That's about it. In that case, the remaining 20 people will vote with a focus on data, but Bauer has a better result. Darvish played more against stronger teams, but if that part is evaluated, it will be awarded. There is a possibility. "
Also, Jordan Bastian, who is in charge of the Cubs on MLB.com, the official homepage of Major League Baseball, did not vote this time, but said, "It's a very interesting battle. Bauer has an advantage in defense rate, Dalvisch outperforms the indicator that he contributed more to the victory. If I vote, I would like to vote for Dalvisch by a small margin. "
Results and recent trends of three National League candidates
Comparing the results of the three finalists for the Cy Young Awards by item, you can clearly see how the National League is in a melee.
The titles of the three major categories are shared by Darvish with the most wins, Bauer with the Reds with the best ERA, and DeGrom with the Mets with the most strikes.
Of these, pitcher Yu Darvish is within the fifth place in the league in all three divisions, and the number of wins is significantly ahead of the other two.
In addition, the number of "quality start" that starts 6 innings or more and keeps the earned run within 3 points is the highest at 10 times, and the ratio to the number of starts is also the highest.
On the other hand, Bauer is number one on the index called "WHIP".
WHIP shows how many runners are allowed with hits and walks per inning, and as an index showing how much the opponent's hit line was overwhelmed unlike the number of wins that depends on the score of the ally, in recent years It is one of the important data in the Cy Young Award.
Generally, if this number is less than 1, it is considered to be "the ace representing the ball world", but Bauer pitched only 0.7 in the National League.
DeGrom, who has won the Cy Young Award for the second consecutive year, has marked an overwhelming number of 13.76 in the "strikeout rate," which indicates the number of strikeouts per nine innings.
The number of wins is four, which is half that of pitcher Yu Darvish, but it tends not to be emphasized in recent Cy Young Awards.
Two years ago, Nationals pitcher Scherzer won 18 wins and won two crowns with 300 strikeouts, but DeGrom, who marked an overwhelming ERA of 1.70, ranked first from 29 out of 30. I collected the votes.
At that time, DeGrom pitched 10-9, but his pitching, which overwhelmed the batter with a straight over 160km, was highly evaluated.
DeGrom has won the most strikes last year with only 11 wins, and has also collected the number one vote from 29 people, and it is possible that he will win the award for the third consecutive year.
This season, which was played in 60 games, which is less than half of the average year due to the influence of the new Corona, the winners will be decided by what the 30 reporters who voted emphasized because there is no one in the National League. It looks like it will be.