Let's influence some Cy Young voters

Tom Hamilton said tonight that Corey Kluber's performance tonight may have won him the AL Cy Young award.

Certainly it didn't hurt.

But let's get back to a point I alluded to in my earlier post about the Indians beating up on Sale and, as a result, making Kluber's numbers look better than Sale's.  At the time I said that voters should look at Kluber's and Sale's numbers against teams that will be in the playoffs.

If the playoffs started today, here are the teams that would be in: Cleveland, Boston, Houston, New York Yankees, Minnesota, Washington, Chicago Cubs, LA Dodgers, Arizona and Colorado.

Sale has faced the Yankees (5 times), the Indians (twice) and Minnesota (twice).  Here are his numbers:

9 games 54.1 IP  52 H  30 R  28 ER  16 BB  77 K  8 HR

Sale had no complete games and only went 7 or more innings 4 times in these 9 games.

Kluber has faced Arizona, Houston, LA Dodgers, Minnesota, NY Yankees (twice), Boston and Colorado.   Here are his numbers

8 games 60.2 IP  34 H  16 R 14 ER  11 BB  78 K 6 HR

Included in Kluber's stats are two complete games (Colorado, Yankees) and 7 of those 8 games he went 7 or more innings.

When you compare overall pitching stats Kluber is ahead of Sale.

When you factor in how they pitched against playoff bound teams, Kluber buries Sale.  No contest.

Hopefully these numbers make it to the people who vote on the Cy Young award.