As Baseball Musings mentioned, MLB.com reporter Tom Singer seems a little surprised that Chien-Ming Wang really wasn’t in the mix in the Cy Young competition. His article’s (written yesterday before vote result was announced) sub-headline read Competition appears to be between Beckett and Sabathia.
Like it wasn’t obvious.
because Beckett and Wang were the respective leaders of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Their season-long excellence on the road to 20 wins — a destination only Beckett reached — figured to be hard to ignore.
Then another undisputed staff ace, the Indians’ C.C. Sabathia, drove a wedge into that battle, emerging by the end of the season as Beckett’s main challenger.
Wang didn’t receive a single vote.