{"id":1117,"date":"2017-11-20T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2017-11-20T09:14:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T16:14:56","slug":"cy-young-goes-to-a-klubot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1117","title":{"rendered":"Cy Young Goes to a Klubot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id='jiqs9MqwS0dFlKyYP8e67g' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/810737924' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'jiqs9MqwS0dFlKyYP8e67g',sig:'97vPqgP6FyuO4m5eprl8Vg19MpBiHdY-UsMtiybcHuo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'810737924',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><br \/>\nThe 2017 season got off to a rough start for Demigods ace Corey Kluber. He managed to win three of his first six starts, but was far from his usual dominant self, posting a 5.06 ERA before hitting the disabled list for nearly a month. Apparently the time off served him well, because he was the best pitcher in baseball for the final four months of the season. Those four months of dominance were enough to make Kluber&#8217;s full season numbers as impressive as any other pitcher in baseball. Corey Kluber is the 2017 DTBL Cy Young award winner.<\/p>\n<p>Kluber is the definition of a workhorse.\u00a0 Despite missing a month of the season, he still managed to record 203.2 innings, exceeded by only two other DTBL pitchers.\u00a0 He has thrown over 200 innings in all four of his seasons with the Demigods.\u00a0 But it wasn&#8217;t just about quantity of innings for Kluber.\u00a0 The quality was unsurpassed as well.\u00a0 He easily led the league in ERA (2.25) and WHIP (0.87) and tied for the most wins (18) as well.\u00a0 His 265 strikeouts ranked third in the league.\u00a0 In terms of PAR, he was also the best pitcher in the league with a mark of 13.2.\u00a0 He did all of this while pitching in the hitter friendly American League.\u00a0 He is the first American League pitcher to win the DTBL Cy Young award since David Price in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Demigods drafted Kluber in the 10th round of the 2014 draft.\u00a0 Needless to say, that pick has worked out quite well for them.\u00a0 Kluber won the DTBL Rookie of the Year award in 2014 and has been a Cy Young contender pretty much every season since.\u00a0 He has struck out over 225 hitters in each season and has never posted an ERA above 3.50 or a WHIP above 1.09.\u00a0 This season was probably his best to date, but there hasn&#8217;t been a bad one yet.\u00a0 He already sits in the top five in Demigods franchise history in all relevant categories.\u00a0 Amazingly enough, this season marked his first DTBL All-Star appearance.\u00a0 I would say that is a sign of how dominant Kluber tends to be in the second half of seasons, because his full season numbers have been All-Star worthy in all four years of his DTBL career.\u00a0 The Demigods pitching staff was a bit of a disappointment as a whole, keeping them from being a serious championship contender.\u00a0 But that obviously wasn&#8217;t Kluber&#8217;s fault.\u00a0 He easily led his team in ERA, WHIP, wins, strikeouts and PAR.<\/p>\n<p>Plenty of pitchers had great 2017 seasons, but Kluber won this award pretty easily.\u00a0 He received eight of the ten first place votes, and was ranked second on the other two ballots for a total of 94 points.\u00a0 Chris Sale looked like the favorite to win this award at the All-Star break, but he continued his career trend of fading down the stretch, creating quite a contrast to Kluber.\u00a0 Nonetheless, the Choppers lefty still led the league in strikeouts with 308, the highest single season total since Randy Johnson&#8217;s 334 in the 2002 season, 15 years ago.\u00a0 Sale received one first place vote and eight seconds for a 69 point total.\u00a0 There was a very close race for third place.\u00a0 Last year&#8217;s Cy Young winner, Kings ace Max Scherzer edged out Mavericks star Clayton Kershaw.\u00a0 Scherzer received a majority of the third place votes (7) and accumulated 44 points.\u00a0 This was just enough to beat Kerhaw&#8217;s 40 points that included a first place vote.\u00a0 Finishing near the top of the Cy Young vote is nothing new for this duo.\u00a0 Scherzer has now finished in the top four in four of the past five seasons.\u00a0 Amazingly, this is Kershaw&#8217;s seventh straight year in this elite company.\u00a0 He won the award in 2013 and 2014.\u00a0 There was a huge gap after these four, but Mavericks closer Kenley Jansen took the fifth spot thanks to four fifth place votes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/CY17.txt\">Click here<\/a> to view the full voting results.<\/p>\n<p>Two down, one to go.\u00a0 The Most Valuable Player award, which figures to be the most hotly contested of the three races, will be announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images The 2017 season got off to a rough start for Demigods ace Corey Kluber. He managed to win three of his first six starts, but was far from his usual dominant self, posting a 5.06 ERA before hitting the disabled list for nearly a month. 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