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Keith Law discusses the controversy surrounding his NL Cy Young Award ballot. Law believes that Tim Lincecum, Javier Vazquez and Adam Wainwright were ...

Early Top 200 rankings for 2010

Tristan H. Cockcroft takes a first shot at a top-200 fantasy rankings for the 2010 season.

How Javier Vazquez Is Like Ralph Nader

...voters suggested he should at the All-Star break and after the season.So why are Chris Carpenter and Javier Vazquez at the center of a Cy Young controversy?Lincecum won a close vote...

Friday Filberts

...at satirizing the over-the-top reactions of those pundits who are just so sure that Chris Carpenter was one of the three best pitchers in the National League. And finally, it's official...

Digging into Cy balloting

...Two voters, Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus and Keith Law of ESPN.com, did not include Chris Carpenter on their ballots. Carroll had Wainwright in the top spot, Tim Lincecum second and Arizona's...

Cy Why?

ESPN.com's Keith Law explains why he left Chris Carpenter off his Cy Young ballot. He was one of only two voters to do so. Only...

Jayson Stark on Tim Lincecum Winning His 2nd Straight Cy Young

...Two voters, Will Carroll of Baseball Prospectus and Keith Law of ESPN.com, did not include Chris Carpenter on their ballots. Carroll had Adam Wainwright in the top spot, Lincecum second and Arizona's...

Do both Cy Youngs signal shift?

...deep third. While Zack Attack finished 14 points behind King Felix, Lincecum finished 15 points behind Chris Carpenter and 26 points behind Adam Wainwright. And yet Lincecum, who won four fewer games than Wainwright...

At This Hour: Irish Lodge Complaint, McShay & Kiper Heisman Top 3, NL Cy Young Preview

...be presented to one of these three pitchers. Here's a comparison of the three favorites: Chris Carpenter(STL): 17-4, 2.24 ERA Chris Carpenter is trying to join Bob Gibson as the...

Here were my top 3 for NL Cy Young

...NL in (unadjusted) ERA, but threw 36 more innings than the guy in front of him, Chris Carpenter. Carpenter's innings total was the main reason he ended up off my ballot. He pitched...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2009

Lincecum repeats as Cy Young winner

Giants ace Tim Lincecum has won the NL Cy Young Award, becoming the first repeat winner in the major leagues since Randy Johnson was voted the prize four straight times from 1999-2002.

Previewing the NL Cy Young Candidates

...s cameo in this MLB 2K9 commercial will be seen as the passing of the baton. Chris Carpenter, RHP, St. Louis Carp has won this award once before in 2005 and this year he...

ATH : Lincecum's 2nd NL Cy Young?

Lincecum has become the eighth pitcher in the MLB to win the Cy Young Award in back-to-back seasons.

Video | November 19, 2009

Meet digital Lincecum, 2.0

With another Cy Young (and a drug arrest) under his belt, Jim Caple wonders what the future holds for Tim Lincecum's digital self.

September 19, 2009; St. Louis, MO, USA; St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Chris Carpenter (29) delivers a pitch to a Chicago Cubs batter in the second inning at Busch Stadium...