ERA Leaders and Cy Young Award Votes
Fri, May 6, 2005
by Geoff Young
The Baseball Crank has two articles showing DIPS ERA leaders from the 2004 All-Star Break through Tuesday.
Some names of interest to Padre fans:
Pitcher IP DIPS ERA Jake Peavy 139 3.00 Ben Sheets 141 3.21 Jason Schmidt 141.1 3.36 David Wells 129 4.20 Brian Lawrence 120 4.24 Adam Eaton 122 4.26 Woody Williams 121.2 4.27 Brett Tomko 132.2 4.46 Matt Clement 99.2 4.56 Oliver Perez 130.1 4.56 Darrell May 95.2 5.42
Peavy ranks sixth overall, which leads TBC to note, “Pretty heady company there for Peavy and Burnett.” This got me thinking (don’t ask, it’s just the way my mind works): What kind of company is Peavy keeping in terms of leading the league in ERA but not receiving any Cy Young Award votes?
It’s not as select as you might expect. Since they started giving two awards (one for each league) in 1967, it’s happened 20 times. That’s out of 78 possible award-years. So about a quarter of the time, the league ERA leader hasn’t received a single vote.
Before Peavy did it in 2004, the last time it had happened was in 1996, when Juan Guzman led the AL with a 2.93 ERA. Only two pitchers in history have had a higher ERA+ and failed to register a single Cy Young Award vote. Here is the entire list, in descending ERA+ order:
Pitcher Year Tm ERA ERA+ Luis Tiant 1968 Cle 1.60 184 Juan Guzman 1996 Tor 2.93 181 Phil Niekro 1967 Atl 1.87 177 Jake Peavy 2004 SD 2.27 177 Juan Marichal 1969 SF 2.10 166 Danny Darwin 1990 Hou 2.21 168 Rick Honeycutt 1983 Tex 2.42 167 Allan Anderson 1988 Min 2.45 167 Steve Ontiveros 1994 Oak 2.65 167 Joe Magrane 1988 StL 2.18 160 Bill Swift 1992 SF 2.08 159 Dick Bosman 1969 Was 2.19 159 Don Sutton 1980 LA 2.20 159 Rudy May 1980 NYA 2.46 159 Atlee Hammaker 1983 SF 2.25 157 Sammy Stewart 1981 Bal 2.32 156 Craig Swan 1978 NYN 2.43 144 Alejandro Pena 1984 LA 2.48 142 John Denny 1976 StL 2.52 140 Diego Segui 1970 Oak 2.56 138
Peavy also is the only active big-league pitcher to have led his league in ERA and not received a single Cy Young Award vote.
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May 7, 2005 at 9:30 pm
Not that it’s on any consequence … just interest … Tank gets first AAA W (in relief, after 5 obviously-poor starts) of the season … now 1-3 with a 7.15 for the Omaha Royals
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.....a_omaaaa_1
Pretty quiet in the Padres’ farm tonight … Matt Bush went 2-for-3 with a BB and 2 RsBI … rah!
May 7, 2005 at 9:32 pm
“Quiet” ain’t good …
Hyzdu is just 1-for-7 so far with Portland Beavers … eh …