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Originally Posted by CubsManager
RchW,
Stroman was a 5.1 WAR and Kershaw was a 7.3 so you may be right. But no 11 - 11 starter will ever win the Cy Young so that needs to be fixed.
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A 2.3 difference in WAR is significant. I for one would not want this "fixed" because nothing is wrong. Wins and losses do not always reflect pitcher performance. If Stroman was within 0.5 WAR then I'd have no problem with either player.
See the 2010 Cy Young results. Felix Hernandez win at 13-12 was hailed as a triumph of reason over numbers. Who would you have picked in the AL. In the NL Halladay had both numbers and WAR so the selection is defensible. If Jiminez was at 8 WAR then doing that in Colorado may have been enough to win it.
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