By Dick Kaegel / MLB.com
11/17/09 2:02 PM EST
KANSAS CITY -- Zack Greinke won again on Tuesday -- this time taking the Cy Young Award as the American League's best pitcher.
Greinke received 25 of a possible 28 first-place votes and tallied 134 points. Mariners right-hander Felix Hernandez received two first-place votes and finished second in the balloting with 80 points. Tigers right-hander Justin Verlander received one first-place vote and placed third overall.
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Hernandez and Verlander each won 19 games, and there was a suggestion in some places that Greinke's 16-8 record, a rather modest win total for a Cy Young winner, might override his Major League-best ERA of 2.16. But that did not happen.
Certainly, there was no argument that Greinke was one of the most dominating pitchers of 2009 in either league. His performance and his award brightens what was a disappointing season for the Royals.
"Zack Greinke has always been a potentially tremendous talent and we were all fortunate to watch him perform this past year," Royals general manager Dayton Moore said. "He was everything that he and all of us expected him someday to be."
Greinke, 26, became the third Cy Young winner in club history. Bret Saberhagen won in 1985 and 1989, and David Cone won in 1994. Cone was the only other starter to win the AL award with as few as 16 wins and he did it in a strike-shortened season. Brandon Webb was the last starter to win the National League award with so few wins, having gone 16-8 for Arizona in 2006.
I'll start off by saying Congrats to Greinke. Yes you did have an impressive season especially pitching for such a shitty Royals squad. 16 wins isn't very impressive but your 2.14 ERA, not too shabby. I don't think C.C. got robbed or anything like that but i could easily have seen him taking the award home. I guess we will just have to settle for the WORLD SERIES, and the enormous rings they will be receiving at the beginning of next season. I think C.C. would take that any day over another Cy Young, hes been there done that. I bet you anything Greinke will probably come out next year and pitch like shit and barley reach .500 with an ERA of 4.50. Not taking anything away from what he did this year though he was pretty nasty.
Whoever put this video together is definitely having to change their pants right now... sick life.
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