MLB Cy Younger 2021: Blue Jays’ Robbie Ray takes dwelling American League award

MLB Cy Younger 2021: Blue Jays’ Robbie Ray takes dwelling American League award

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Final offseason the Toronto Blue Jays rolled the dice on lefty Robbie Ray with a one-365 days, $8 million contract, and he rewarded them with a Cy Younger season in 2021. Wednesday night the Baseball Writers Association of The US presented Ray beat out Yankees ace Gerrit Cole and White Sox righty Lance Lynn for the American League Cy Younger award.

Ray obtained 29 of the 30 first set up votes. The assorted went to Cole.

Ray, 30, had a fabulous first fat season with the Blue Jays, throwing a league easiest 193 1/3 innings whereas main qualified pitchers in ERA (2.84), ERA+ (154), WHIP (1.05), and WAR (7.6). He’s the first Toronto pitcher to lift the award for the explanation that slack Hall of Famer Roy Halladay in 2003, and the fifth Blue Jays pitcher overall, joining Halladay, Roger Clemens (1997, 1998), and Pat Hentgen (1996).

Here’s how the three American League Cy Younger finalists stack up:

Gerrit Cole, Yankees

16-8

181 1/3

3.23

133

12.1

2.0

5.7

Lance Lynn, White Sox

11-6

157

2.69

161

10.1

2.6

5.4

Robbie Ray, Blue Jays

13-7

193 1/3

2.84

154

11.5

2.4

7.6

The Cy Younger award comes at an shapely time for Ray, who is within the within the period in-between a free agent and poised to signal a lucrative lengthy-term deal. Our R.J. Anderson ranked him the finest free agent starter on the market and the sixth easiest free agent overall. No longer sooner than the Cy Younger announcement, Ray formally declined the one-365 days, $18.4 million qualifying provide.

Cole done 2nd to Ray within the vote casting, earning his fourth straight (and fifth overall) top five create within the Cy Younger vote casting. He was once the favourite to lift the award heaps of the season, although he stumbled a minute bit following MLB‘s foreign substance crackdown in June, then he limped to the create following a hamstring ruin in September. In many varied years, Cole would possess obtained the Cy Younger.

Lynn was once hampered a minute bit by a knee voice down the stretch — he fell five innings immediate of qualifying for the ERA title — but was once continuously shapely all season. Here’s his most life like ever create within the Cy Younger vote casting and his third straight create within the quit six. Lynn might maybe maybe possess severely change a free agent this offseason delight in Ray, although he signed a two-365 days extension a few weeks within the past.

Other American League hurlers to receive Cy Younger votes this season embody White Sox lefty Carlos Rodón and Red Sox righty Nathan Eovaldi. Angels two-approach huge establish Shohei Ohtani is the favourite to be named AL MVP on Thursday. He did now not receive any Cy Younger votes, on the opposite hand. Fat AL Cy Younger vote casting results will be found in on the BBWAA’s dwelling.

Ray is the seventh varied pitcher to lift the AL Cy Younger within the final seven years, joining Shane Bieber (2020), Justin Verlander (2019), Blake Snell (2018), Corey Kluber (2017), Rick Porcello (2016), Dallas Keuchel (2015). The final repeat winner within the Junior Circuit was once Clemens in 1997-98.

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