{"id":1205,"date":"2018-11-18T11:05:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T18:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2021-12-17T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T16:40:21","slug":"scherzer-wins-another-cy-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/blog\/?p=1205","title":{"rendered":"Scherzer Wins Another Cy Young"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"Ca1sGSVWSL5gssSc8rh3eg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1040387548\" target=\"_blank\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\nwindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'Ca1sGSVWSL5gssSc8rh3eg',sig:'tegFkPorvm2XiMdfCD6Y2Jdn41_8yDobg9NeOApUJZE=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1040387548',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script src=\"\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nOn a year-to-year basis, you know exactly what you are going to get from Max Scherzer:\u00a0 a sub 3.00 ERA, a sub 1.00 WHIP, 15-20 wins, over 200 innings and at least 250 strikeouts.\u00a0 His stat lines from each of the past six seasons have been astonishingly similar.\u00a0 But 2018 may have been his best season yet.\u00a0 He failed to win his third consecutive National League Cy Young award due to the historically great season that Jacob deGrom had, but from a roto perspective, Scherzer&#8217;s year was better.\u00a0 This is the fifth time in the past six years that Scherzer has finished in the top five of this league&#8217;s Cy Young vote and the second time he has come out on top.\u00a0 Kings starting pitcher Max Scherzer is the 2018 DTBL Cy Young award winner.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard to pick out Scherzer&#8217;s best career season, but I would make the case that 2018 is the new leader.\u00a0 He posted the highest PAR of his career, a league leading 14.0.\u00a0 He easily set a career high in strikeouts, finishing at exactly 300.\u00a0 (As an aside, I was in the park for his 300th strikeout.\u00a0 It was a pretty cool moment in an otherwise extremely disappointing Nationals season.)\u00a0 He is the sixth different pitcher to record a 300 strikeout season in DTBL history.\u00a0 Among qualified pitchers, his 2.53 ERA ranked seventh and his 0.911 WHP was third best.\u00a0 Three other pitchers were ahead of his 18 wins.\u00a0 In addition to PAR and strikeouts, he also led the league in innings pitched with 220 2\/3.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings acquired Scherzer in a trade with the Jackalope back in 2010.\u00a0 That trade continues to pay dividends for the Kings, who have now won three championships with Scherzer on the roster.\u00a0 This is the second time that he has won both a DTBL Championship and the Cy Young award in the same season, repeating what he accomplished in 2016.\u00a0 The Kings won the title this year mainly on the strength of three players:\u00a0 Scherzer, Mookie Betts and Justin Verlander.\u00a0 While Scherzer faced stiff competition for this league-wide award, you could make a decent case that he wasn&#8217;t even the best pitcher on the Kings staff as his and Verlander&#8217;s numbers were nearly identical across the board.\u00a0 Scherzer won a couple more games and had ten more strikeouts, but Verlander had the slight edge in ERA and WHIP.\u00a0 They combined for 27.0 Pitching PAR, which was an incredible 75% of the team&#8217;s total Pitching PAR of 36.1.\u00a0 Needless to say, the Kings would not have been champions without either of these guys.<\/p>\n<p>As expected, the Cy Young vote was kind of all over the place as there were a whole bunch of players who made compelling cases.\u00a0 Scherzer did win by a decent margin, but was far from unanimous.\u00a0 He received seven first place votes, two seconds and a third for a point total of 89.\u00a0 He was the only pitcher to appear on all ten ballots.\u00a0 Finishing second was Cougars lefty, and 2018 DTBL Rookie of the Year, Blake Snell.\u00a0 Snell received nine votes, including two firsts and two seconds, for 53 points.\u00a0 The league&#8217;s win leader had quite a rookie campaign and now adds a second place finish for the Cy Young to his resume.\u00a0 Verlander finished right behind Snell.\u00a0 He was the third and final player to receive a first place vote (one) and had a pair of second place votes as well.\u00a0 Like Snell, he appeared on nine of ten ballots and totaled 42 points.\u00a0 Coming in fourth was the most interesting case of the year, Darkhorses ace Jacob deGrom.\u00a0 I think most people would agree that deGrom was the best pitcher in baseball this season, compiling a ridiculous 1.70 ERA, which was the fourth best mark in league history.\u00a0 But wins do matter in fantasy baseball and he only had 10 of them.\u00a0 He received a second place vote and racked up 32 points.\u00a0 Those four were well ahead of the rest, but several other pitchers received strong consideration as well.\u00a0 Moonshiners reliever Edwin Diaz only received three votes, but two of them were second place nods, so he finished fifth in the voting with 15 points.\u00a0 Diaz appeared to be well on his way to breaking the league&#8217;s single season save record.\u00a0 But his pace slowed a bit down the stretch and he finished with 57 saves, falling five short of Francisco Rodriguez&#8217;s total ten years ago.\u00a0 57 did put him in the second spot on the single season saves list though.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dreamteambaseball.com\/CY18.txt\">Click here<\/a> to view the full voting results.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, I plan to announce the third and final award:\u00a0 Most Valuable Player.\u00a0 Like the Cy Young, there appear to be plenty of strong contenders for MVP, so expect to see a similar scattering of votes.\u00a0 Until then, enjoy the rest of your weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images On a year-to-year basis, you know exactly what you are going to get from Max Scherzer:\u00a0 a sub 3.00 ERA, a sub 1.00 WHIP, 15-20 wins, over 200 innings and at least 250 strikeouts.\u00a0 His stat lines from each of the past six seasons have been astonishingly similar.\u00a0 But 2018 may 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