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    In Major League baseball, has a (primarily) knuckleball pitcher ever won a Cy Young Award?

    Question #121252. Asked by Datsmeharse. (Apr 28 11 1:00 PM)


    AyatollahK

    		No. Bill James discussed the issue in 2003, in looking at the issue of why Phil Niekro didn't win for his great pitching performance in 1978 (unlike every other pitcher with a comparable Win Shares statistic for a season):

    "[T]he larger reason that no knuckleball pitcher has ever won the Cy Young Award [is] because the Cy Young Award usually goes to the pitcher with the best won-lost record, and most knuckleball pitchers pitch for bad teams."

    http://tinyurl.com/5rf55f2

    Niekro, in fact, was only 19-18 for a last-place team that year and finished 7th in the Cy Young voting.


    Apr 28 11, 1:33 PM

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