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  pathat at 08:42 PM JST - 4th September

  "AL Cy Young choice won’t be a Cliff-hanger"

  In this article on Yahoo today by Jeff Passan, there is an interesting point about Daisuke Matsuzaka that puts his season into the proper perspective. He has been good this year after his mediocre first year, but not as good as his record suggests. He has had one heckuva a lot of help from his RedSox teammates:

  "Unfortunately for Matsuzaka, like Rodriguez, he suffers from poor control, which leads to a menagerie of problems. He works deep into counts. That makes him throw too many pitches – 17.2 per inning, to be exact, second worst in the AL to Justin Verlander."

  "It results in a dearth of innings pitched: 146 2/3 in 25 starts. In the last 100 years, no pitcher who has started 25 games and won 80 percent of his decisions has thrown fewer than 158 2/3, and that was 37-year-old Preacher Roe in 1952. Couple that with more than six runs of support per game, the third-best number in the AL, and it torpedoes Matsuzaka’s candidacy."

  A good season for Dice-K with a few more starts to go, but most certainly not worthy of a Cy Young Award.

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