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Originally Posted by RchW
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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I was also going to mention Felix Hernandez. I'm not sure how much real life voters care about wins anymore (I'm sure many of the the older guys emphasize wins a lot), but wins are definitely not the best stat to judge a pitcher. Maybe in real life Stroman may have won, but I like how OOTP handles this. Perhaps in another version there could be an option to have the awards chosen either realistically, or more sabermetrically (which I guess is less realistic).