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SBN Awards: Pitcher Of The Year — R.A. Dickey, Justin Verlander

SB Nation reveals its annual year-end baseball awards, handing out the metaphorical hardware for the best pitchers of the year.

By Eric Simon
Anthony Gruppuso-US PRESSWIRE

After each baseball season ends — but before the playoffs begin — SBN Baseball bloggers get together and vote on awards for the year's nonpareil performers. Each team site — including Amazin' Avenue — is allowed a maximum of two ballots for their team's league. In our case, we completed two National League ballots for all three awards: Rookie of the Year, Pitcher of the Year, and Player of the Year.

Today we announce the winners of both leagues' pitcher of the year, an award with special significance for us because R.A. Dickey had not only the best season of any Mets pitcher, but was arguably the National League's nonpareil pitch-thrower overall. Chris McShane and Eno Sarris proudly represented AA in the voting and their ballots were as follows:

Chris

  1. R.A. Dickey
  2. Clayton Kershaw
  3. Gio Gonzalez
  4. Matt Cain
  5. Johnny Cueto

Eno

  1. R.A. Dickey
  2. Clayton Kershaw
  3. Gio Gonzalez
  4. Craig Kimbrel
  5. Cole Hamels

Naturally, both Chris and Eno praised Dickey with their respective top picks, with some other guys with arms filling out the rest of the ballot. Would the SBN baseball writers concur?

Here are the results:

National League

Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Points
R.A. Dickey New York Mets 13 11 6 2 157
Clayton Kershaw Los Angeles Dodgers 11 12 8 2 1 154
Gio Gonzalez Washington Nationals 9 7 7 6 5 129
Johnny Cueto Cincinnati Reds 2 4 7 8 6 73
Cliff Lee Philadelphia Phillies 5 4 3 26
Matt Cain San Francisco Giants 1 5 4 17
Cole Hamels Philadelphia Phillies 1 3 5 15
Craig Kimbrel Atlanta Braves 1 2 6 13
Wade Miley Arizona Diamondbacks 3 1 7
Kris Medlen Atlanta Braves 3 3
Lance Lynn St. Louis Cardinals 1 1

American League

Player Team 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th Points
Justin Verlander Detroit Tigers 23 1 2 171
David Price Tampa Bay Rays 2 17 7 103
Felix Hernandez Seattle Mariners 6 11 7 1 72
Chris Sale Chicago White Sox 4 10 4 36
Jered Weaver Los Angeles Angels 1 2 3 4 23
Fernando Rodney Tampa Bay Rays 2 3 4 18
Matt Harrison Texas Rangers 1 3 5
CC Sabathia New York Yankees 1 1 3
Max Scherzer Detroit Tigers 3 3
Yu Darvish Texas Rangers 3 3
Jim Johnson Baltimore Orioles 1 2
Hiroki Kuroda New York Yankees 1 1
Jake Peavy Chicago White Sox 1 1
James Shields Tampa Bay Rays 1 1

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