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It’s now time to get into the big boy awards. Today we will look at our predictions for the American League and National League Cy Young award winners and tomorrow, we will get into predicting the MVP award winners.

Let’s get right into it. [...]

To the absolute surprise of absolutely nobody, Justin Verlander is American League’s Cy Young Award winner in 2011. Also to absolutely nobody’s surprise, it was a landslide:

Nobody started more games than Verlander, or pitched more innings. Nobody struck out more batters, or more batters per nine innings. Nobody won more games, or won a higher percentage [...]

It’s become expected around Philadelphia over the past couple of seasons that the Phillies will win the NL East. Anything else is just not acceptable — to the team or the fans. But for Roy Halladay, it’s a brand new experience.

The pitcher that most consider the best in baseball will get his first opportunity to pitch in the postseason after pitching a two-hit shutout against the[...]

Pitching, among others things, has been one of the main story lines driving the MLB this 2010 season. The resurgence of pitching in the Majors has brought to light many young, hard-throwing arms as well as some savvy veterans. From Ubaldo Jimenez to Livan Hernandez, countless pitchers from a variety of backgrounds have proven their [...]

Tim Lincecum has earned his second consecutive National League Cy Young Award after yet another dominating season on the mound. The San Francisco Giants right-handed stoner became the first pitcher ever to win the Cy Young in his first two full seasons in the big leagues and the first repeat winner since Randy Johnson. He went [...]