Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
Bart Shakes Hands With 20: Angels 2, Rangers 1
- The first, in the seventh, allowed Mark Teixeira to reach.
- The second, also in the seventh, allowed Alfonso Soriano to reach, giving the Rangers their only run of the game.
- The third, in the eighth, allowed Gerald Laird to reach.
All of which means Bart has twenty wins on the season, the first to do so in the American League, and so, hurray. Bart has a good shot at winning the Cy Young -- the Jamesian Cy Young predictor has him ranked second. He could get to 21 wins this season, and with the voters reluctant to hand the award to a reliever, he could walk away with it. The only Angel to win the award previously, of course, was Dean Chance, all of twenty three when he got it, beating Sandy Koufax for the honor. (In those days, there was only one award between the two leagues.) Chance pitched in Dodger Stadium most of his Angels career, which didn't hurt; that particular year, Baseball Reference gave it the park's lowest rating (most favorable) for pitchers in its history. Not only did Chance start 35 games, but he appeared in relief 11 times, finishing seven games and garnering two saves. It's just amazing how pitcher utilization has changed. Chance's career was over less than ten years later. There's more on Chance at mlb.com.
Update: If Bart gets a Cy Young, that means Stoneman's free agent pickup record (post 2002, for any significant amount of money) is
Player +/- =============== Colon + Escobar + Guillen + Guerrero ++ Byrd + Finley - Cabrera -
More pluses than minuses overall, though I would qualify Cabrera a little, even though he's massively overpaid.
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