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"Jordan Pineda! Are You Kidding Me?! An Unstoppable Force in 1915!"
By Christopher "Mad Dog" Russo
HO HO! Let me tell ya somethin’ folks—this kid, Jordan Pineda? THIS. KID. WAS. UNHITTABLE! You wanna talk about DOMINANT? You wanna talk about OLD SCHOOL, blow-it-by-ya, bulldog-on-the-mound kind of stuff? Jordan Pineda gave you the full menu, baby. The appetizer, the entrée, the dessert—and he still had room for more!
He goes 21 and 7, makes 35 starts, throws almost 274 innings, strikes out 154, and—you ready for this?—a microscopic 1.41 ERA! This isn’t 1968! This isn’t the dead ball era! This is 1915 and the guy pitched like Walter Johnson with a Red Sox logo on his chest!
UNANIMOUS! You hear me? UN-A-NI-MOUS! Thirty—count ‘em—THIRTY first-place votes! Not one voter said, “Eh, maybe someone else.” Not Sal Cantu—who’s a fine pitcher in Baltimore, by the way. Not Mike Deming from the Bronx. Not even Davey Bowers in Minnesota. Pineda blew 'em all out of the water! Wasn’t even CLOSE!
Let me give you the rundown here:
Pineda – 210 points!
Cantu – 117
Deming – 83
The rest? Thanks for showing up, fellas!
I mean come on! You could take Cantu AND Deming, add ‘em together, and they STILL wouldn’t catch Pineda! This is Pedro Martinez '99 level dominance we’re talking about here!
And ya know what else? He took the ball every five days. Didn’t miss a turn. Didn’t need load management. Didn’t need a pitch clock. He just shoved, game after game, month after month. And he did it in Boston, under the bright lights, the pressure, the media—the whole thing!
So now you got your 1915 AL Cy Young winner: Jordan Pineda, the pride of Beantown. And if he does THIS again next year? Ho ho ho! We might be lookin’ at the beginning of a dynasty, folks!
Back after this!
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