Dodgers' season is over. Kershaw looked better yesterday, but he gave up a three-run home run in the 7th inning which ended up being the winning run. It is not officially announced that Kershaw won this year's Cy Young Award, but I think it is safe to assume that he did; he is even in the discussion of winning the MVP. Well, despite the huge success in the regular season, he lost twice in the division series.
I was just curious how past Cy Young Award winners do in the postseason. Obviously a pitcher cannot win a game single-handedly, but at least I wanted to see how they performed. Click below for the stats.
Regular Season and Postseason Records for the Cy Young Award winners from 1995-2014
2014 NL: Clayton Kershaw? 21-3 1.77 239K
2GS 0-2 14.2IP 11ER (6.75) 19K 2BB
2014 AL: Corey Kluber? 18-9 2.44 269K (or Felix Hernandez? 15-6 2.14 248K)
did not make it (both)
2013 NL: Clayton Kershaw 16-9 1.83 232K
4GS 1-2 23IP 8ER (3.13) 28K 7BB
2013 AL: Max Scherzer 21-3 2.90 240K
4G 3GS 2-1 22.1IP 7ER (2.82) 34K 11BB
2012 NL: R.A. Dickey 20-6 2.73 230K
did not make it
2012 AL: David Price 20-5 2.56 205K
did not make it
2011 NL: Clayton Kershaw 21-5 2.28 248K
did not make it
2011 AL: Justin Verlander 24-5 2.40 250K
4GS 2-1 20.1IP 12ER (5.31) 25K 10BB
2010 NL: Roy Halladay 21-10 2.44 219K
3GS 2-1 22IP 6ER (2.45) 20K 3BB
2010 AL: Felix Hernandez 13-12 2.27 232K
did not make it
2009 NL: Tim Lincecum 15-7 2.48 261K
did not make it
2009 AL: Zach Greinke 16-8 2.16 242K
did not make it
2008 NL: Tim Lincecum 18-5 2.62 265K
did not make it
2008 AL: Cliff Lee 22-3 2.54 170K
did not make it
2007 NL: Jake Peavy 19-6 2.54 240K
did not make it
2007 AL: CC Sabathia 19-7 3.21 209K
3GS 1-2 15.1IP 15ER (8.80) 14K 13BB
2006 NL: Brandon Webb 16-8 3.10 178K
did not make it
2006 AL: Johan Santana 19-6 2.77 245K
1GS 0-1 8IP 2ER (2.25) 8K 1BB
2005 NL: Chris Carpenter 21-5 2.83 213K
3GS 2-0 21IP 5ER (2.14) 12K 7BB
2005 AL: Bartolo Colon 21-8 3.48 157K
2GS 0-1 8IP 4ER (4.50) 7K 2BB
2004 NL: Roger Clemens 18-4 2.98 218K
4GS 2-1 25IP 10ER (3.60) 21K 10BB
2004 AL: Johan Santana 20-6 2.61 265K
2GS 1-0 12IP 1ER (0.75) 12K 4BB
2003 NL: Eric Gagne 2-3 (55 SV) 1.20 137K
did not make it
2003 AL: Roy Halladay 22-7 3.25 204K
did not make it
2002 NL: Randy Johnson 24-5 2.32 334K
1GS 0-1 5.2IP 5ER (7.94) 4K 2BB
2002 AL: Barry Zito 23-5 2.75 182K
1GS 1-0 6IP 3ER (4.50) 8K 4BB
2001 NL: Randy Johnson 21-6 2.49 372K
6G 5GS 5-1 41.1IP 7ER (1.52) 47K 8BB
2001 AL: Roger Clemens 20-3 3.51 213K
5GS 1-1 26.2IP 7ER (2.36) 32K 12BB
2000 NL: Randy Johnson 19-7 2.64 347K
did not make it
2000 AL: Pedro Martinez 18-6 1.74 284K
did not make it
1999 NL: Randy Johnson 17-9 2.48 364K
1GS 0-1 8.1IP 7ER (7.56) 11K 3BB
1999 AL: Pedro Martinez 23-4 2.07 313K
3G 2GS 17IP 0ER (0.00) 23K 6BB
1998 NL: Tom Glavine 20-6 2.47 157K
3GS 0-2 18.2IP 4ER (1.93) 16K 10BB
1998 AL: Roger Clemens 20-6 2.65 271K
did not make it
1997 NL: Pedro Martinez 17-8 1.90 305K
did not make it
1997 AL: Roger Clemens 21-7 2.05 292K
did not make it
1996 NL: John Smoltz 24-8 2.94 276K
5GS 4-1 38IP 4ER (0.95) 33K 13BB
1996 AL: Pat Hentgen 20-10 3.22 177K
did not make it
1995 NL: Greg Maddux 19-2 1.63 181K
5GS 3-1 38IP 12ER (2.84) 19K 7BB
1995 AL: Randy Johnson 18-2 2.48 294K
4G 3GS 2-1 25.1IP 7ER (2.49) 29K 8BB
1. Just for a note, David Cone won the Cy Young Award in 1994. He was the winning pitcher of my very first game at the Yankee Stadium (in fact my first MLB game,) so just wanted to say he won one.
2. A lot of them actually did not make playoffs. I guess it is not surprising since, unlike MVP, CYA does not go with how his team did in the season. For last 20 seasons, only 21 CYA winners (of 40) made playoffs while 32 MVPs (of 38, I was not sure of this year's winners) did.
3. For last 20 seasons, average stats of the CYA winners (other than Eric Gagne who clearly was a outlier) are:
19 NL CYA winners: 19.3W 6.3L 2.455ERA 256.8K
20 AL CYA winners: 19.9W 6.1L 2.657ERA 235.7K
Pretty impressive, right?
4. In the postseason their stats when they started are :
11 NL CYA winners: 36GS 18W 13L 2.796ERA 236K 68BB
(If we exclude Kershaw, it improves to 30GS 17W 9L 2.492ERA 189K 59BB)
10 AL CYA winners: 26GS 9W 8L 3.360ERA 176K 64BB
It is not as stellar as their regular season performance, but still solid.
5. '99 Pedro's season is arguably with the very best pitching performance and guess what: he had 0.00 ERA in the postseason as well.
In sum, I've read a lot of people writing about former CYA winners' postseason performance in total and arguing that they were just ordinary pitchers in postseason, but if we take a closer look at specific years when they actually won the CYA, they are still impressive. Duh.
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