{"id":88,"date":"2007-10-02T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/cy_young_2007\/"},"modified":"2025-07-09T23:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T03:22:15","slug":"cy_young_2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/cy_young_2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Cy Young 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a sports fan doesn&#8217;t end when the season does, you need to analyze, reflect, and debate things like awards, so let&#8217;s get started:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/leagues\/NL_2007.shtml\">National League<\/a> Cy Young: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/p\/peavyja01.shtml\">Jake Peavy<\/a>.  No real debate here.  Led the league in strikeouts, strikouts per inning, wins, WHIP, and ERA, and came just short of the playoffs.  Runner Up: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/w\/webbbr01.shtml\">Brandon Webb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/leagues\/AL_2007.shtml\">American League<\/a> Cy Young: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/s\/sabatc.01.shtml\">C. C. Sabathia<\/a>.  On the surface, it looks like a real close race here with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/b\/beckejo02.shtml\">Beckett<\/a> and maybe even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/l\/lackejo01.shtml\">Lackey<\/a>, and the press seems to think Beckett is a lock because he got 20 wins.  However, Sabathia beats Beckett in WHIP, IP, K, GS, CG, SHO, K\/BB ratio, which are all key ace\/stopper stats.  Runner Up: Josh Beckett.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Expect a surge in baseball-related posts over the next couple of weeks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a sports fan doesn&#8217;t end when the season does, you need to analyze, reflect, and debate things like awards, so let&#8217;s get started: National League Cy Young: Jake Peavy. No real debate here. Led the league in strikeouts, strikouts per inning, wins, WHIP, and ERA, and came just short of the playoffs. Runner Up:&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"simppeli-read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/cy_young_2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cy Young 2007<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[253,250,248,249,252,251,255,254],"series":[],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball-sports-2","tag-brandon-webb","tag-c-c-sabathia","tag-cy-young","tag-jake-peavy","tag-john-lackey","tag-josh-beckett","tag-sabermetrics","tag-stats"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-1q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}