Carpenter won the NL CY

[Steff]

Deserving.

[bjm676]

Closest vote since 1998. Willis finishes a close second.

 

Player, Club                        1st 2nd 3rd Points

Chris Carpenter, Cardinals    19 12    1    132

Dontrelle Willis, Marlins          11 18    3    112

Roger Clemens, Astros          2  2    24    40

Roy Oswalt, Astros                            2    2

Chad Cordero, Nationals                    1    1

Andy Pettitte, Astros                          1    1

[whitesoxfan101]

I thought for sure Willis would win, seeing as he had a better ERA, more wins, and Carpenter's September was pretty miserable.

 

But alas, Carpenter overall still had quite a year, so congrats to him.

[Steff]

I thought for sure Willis would win, seeing as he had a better ERA, more wins, and Carpenter's September was pretty miserable.

 

But alas, Carpenter overall still had quite a year, so congrats to him.

 

Willis had more losses also.

 

Carpenter sure has made one hell of a come back.. that's for sure.

[whitesoxfan101]

Willis had more losses also.

 

Carpenter sure has made one hell of a come back.. that's for sure.

 

Definitely.....that was a gamble by Jocketty that paid off big time. Had Carpenter not got hurt, I think the '04 WS could have gone differently, and at the least, would not have been a sweep.

[RockRaines]

Carpenter is good and all, but Clemens should have gotten the award. Much better pitcher last year IMO

[Yoda]

It was a very tough race.

 

I had forgotten all about Chad Cordero. His 47 saves led the majors. Willis had a phenomenal season and The Rocket probably had the best season of his career. But overall, IMO, Carpenter does deserve the CY. He had only 5 loses throughout the whole season. He was healthy and when he was on he was almost unhittable.

[whitesoxfan99]

Carpenter is good and all, but Clemens should have gotten the award.  Much better pitcher last year IMO

 

Pettitte was better as well.

[WilliamTell]

Couldn't go wrong with either Carpenter, Willis, or Clemens.

[Antonio Osuna]

Meh, looks to me like Willis is being penalized for being on a team that was weaker this year.

[santo=dorf]

QUOTE(Antonio Osuna @ Nov 11, 2005 -> 06:27 PM)

Meh, looks to me like Willis is being penalized for being on a team that was weaker this year.

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Or maybe because Carpenter was a better pitcher.

 

He pitched more innings than Willies yet gave up less hits, lees walks, and 43 more K's. A 21-5 record looks better than a 22-10 record in my opinion.

[GoodAsGould]

I thought Willis deserved it more but all is well.... and do you think part of Carpenter only having 5 losses is his team scored about 100 more runs than the Marlins... I guess you can say samething for Clemens but Willis has the wins to back up his performance.

[witesoxfan]

Or maybe because Carpenter was a better pitcher.

 

He pitched more innings than Willies yet gave up less hits, lees walks, and 43 more K's.  A 21-5 record looks better than a 22-10 record in my opinion.

 

Agreed completely

 

This is not mentioning how unbelievably unhittable Carpenter was from June through August. His totals during that time - 12-1 1.45 ERA 0.80 WHIP 5.75 K/BB in 130.1 IP - are hard to fathom. Reminds me a little of Santana last year, except Santana was just unbelievable last year...almost unhittable. He had WHIPs of under 0.70 in a month twice last year, and had a BAA of under .100 in July, while having an ERA of 0.45 in September. Not surprising is that those were the two months his WHIP was under 0.70.