Roy Halladay Wins 2010 NL Cy Young in Unanimous Fashion, Ubaldo Jimenez Finishes Third

by Jeff Aberle on Nov 16, 2010 12:15 PM MST in Miscellaneous

Ubaldo Jimenez had a historically great pitching season for the Rockies in 2010. Problem is, he picked a lousy year to do it if he wanted to win the Cy Young. Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies was simply sublime in his first season in the Senior Circuit and fully deserved the award he was unanimously given today by the electorate of the Baseball Writers Association of America. How sublime?

Well, Halladay did throw a perfect game during the regular season and only the second postseason no-hitter in his playoff debut. His 2.44 ERA was good for third in the NL (and his 2.92 xFIP was best in baseball), plus he had a 7.30 K/BB ratio (219 Ks, 30 BBs), second only to fellow cyborg Cliff Lee, and he did it while throwing 250.2 innings, 15 more than anyone else in baseball. Of Halladay's 21 victories, nine were of the complete game variety and four of those nine were shut-outs. In other words, Halladay deserved the heck out of this award.

That isn't to diminish the considerable achievements of Jimenez, Adam Wainwright, Josh Johnson (who might have been the best pitcher on a rate basis), and Tim Hudson. All had seasons that would have made them Cy favorites in previous years, but in the Year of the Pitcher it was Halladay who rose to the top.

Halladay received all 32 first place votes, finishing with the maximum 224 points, while Wainwright got 28 of the 32 second place ballots to secure the runner-up postion with 122 points. Jimenez got the other four second place votes and was named on all 32 ballots to receive 90 points. Hudson was fourth with 39 points (20 ballots) and Johnson secured fifth with 34 points (19 ballots)

Here is how the Purple Row staff voted about a month ago (as well as more information about the stellar 2010 campaigns of each candidate). The results from the actual balloting are very similar, with Wainwright and Jimenez switching places and Hudson sneaking in front of Johnson.

Full voting results after the jump

2010 NL Cy Young Award Voting

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	Points
Roy Halladay, Philadelphia Phillies	32					224
Adam Wainwright, St. Louis Cardinals		28	3		1	122
Ubaldo Jimenez, Colorado Rockies		4	19	8	1	90
Tim Hudson, Atlanta Braves			3	13	4	39
Josh Johnson, Florida Marlins			5	5	9	34
Roy Oswalt, Houston Astros/Philadelphia Phillies			1	3	5	14
Brian Wilson, San Francisco Giants				1	5	7
Heath Bell, San Diego Padres			1		1	4
Mat Latos, San Diego Padres				1	2	4
Brett Myers, Houston Astros				1		2
Tim Lincecum, San Francisco Giants					2	2
Bronson Arroyo, Cincinnati Reds					1	1
Matt Cain, San Francisco Giants					1	1

Three Giants made NL Cy ballots, with the leader being closer Brian Wilson, who took seventh. San Diego closer Heath Bell was the only other reliever to receive consideration.

Stay tuned for the AL/NL Manager of the Year Awards tomorrow and the AL Cy Young Award on Thursday.

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So who's the Jack___

that gave Ubaldo a 5th place vote?

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by wolf213 on Nov 16, 2010 12:21 PM MST reply actions

Jon Miller probably

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by SDcat09 on Nov 16, 2010 12:29 PM MST up reply actions

With this voting, Ubaldo also becomes only the third Rockie pitcher to receive Cy Young voting

after Marvin Freeman in 1994 and Jeff Francis in 2007.

He also becomes the first Rockie pitcher to garner 2nd place votes, and also the first to place in the Top 3.

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by Muzia on Nov 16, 2010 12:45 PM MST reply actions

Good stuff

136 more days until the Rockies Home Opener!!!!!!!

by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Nov 16, 2010 1:41 PM MST up reply actions

Good to see Ubaldo get some recognition

it warms my heart a bit.

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by Andrew Martin on Nov 16, 2010 1:02 PM MST reply actions

Great to see

And frankly, 3rd is probably what he deserved. Outstanding season from an outstanding pitcher, who I fully expect will dominate for many years to come.

He’s far from the end of his Cy Young votes.

So let's just win 12 more games next year, mmmkay?

Will the Gints complain about the non-humidor balls in Citizens Bank Ballpark when they lose there, too?

by Mondogarage on Nov 16, 2010 1:12 PM MST reply actions

I gotta know who voted Bell third

That means they put Bell over Ubaldo or Wainwright. I’d love to hear someone try and make that case.

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by RhodeIslandRoxfan on Nov 16, 2010 1:42 PM MST reply actions

Probably a San Diego writer.

by holly96 on Nov 16, 2010 3:35 PM MST up reply actions

Proud

of the pitcher he has become. Well deserved. More to come…

by Teekalong on Nov 16, 2010 2:18 PM MST reply actions

Yippee!!

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by Russ Oates on Nov 16, 2010 7:05 PM MST reply actions

Ridiculous.

I threw up when I was reading on MLB.com about Felix Hernandez getting the AL Cy Young….saying how he got votes because the Mariners sucked the big one in all of his losses.

Well guess what? The Rockies sucked in most of losses. He should have had 24 maybe 25 wins if we could find some bats.

by RoxFan1701 on Nov 18, 2010 1:39 PM MST reply actions