First Half AL Cy Young

[love_that_reefer]

Who do you think deserves the AL Cy Young for the first half?

[love_that_reefer]

I of course chose the Duke of Oakland. He has allowed more the two earned runs just once in 16 starts. Anyone beat that? Didn't think so.

[bwitty24]

Rivera

[cjkalt]

Dice-K is 10-1 with an era under 2.6 in a small park like boston, its pretty incredible too when you think he's 10-1 and missed a month with an injury... he's my vote cause he got robbed of an all star game bid

[hot_corner_gurl]

I'm going with my guy (Duke). He's been our guy who goes out and stops losing steaks (with the exception of yesterday because Street blew it). He's been completely lights out, and you can always rely on Duke to give you 7+ strong innings. All this without ever being a starter before in his ML career.

[bwitty24]

Just so you know...Dice K has 9 billion more walks than any other pitcher

[cjkalt]

last time i checked a walk is better than a run right? doesn't matter how many walks you give up, the game is determined by the number of runs allowed and he allows very few of them

[Halladay_is_God]

Danks over Halladay? wth


picked Cliff Lee, more IP and SO than Duchscherer

[love_that_reefer]

Sorry God, Halladay has had one helluva season but went with Danks because he too has had a great season and gets no love whatsoever. I could take off Rivera and put Halladay in but we already have a Yankee fan vote for Rivera. Your write in vote is Halladay.

[Foster]

I'am also gonna throw my weight behind Halladay for the write in vote.

[Bon Bon]

As much as I would love to throw my vote to Dice-K, I don't think he is the top candidate at this point. My resoning for this is he has a larger ERA than two of the starters that I feel are ahead of him and he does walk entirely too many batters. I had to go with Duke over Cliff Lee because he has been consistently amazing. Lee started out with such a fantastic start and have been still great the rest of the way, but has dropped off a little bit since that phenominal start.

So right now I would say:

1. Justin Duchsherer
2. Cliff Lee
3. Dice K
4. Mariano Rivera
5. John Danks
6. Joe Saunders

[ljshorty89]

I'll be completely honest, I didn't realize just HOW good a year Duchsherer was having. I knew he was having an excellent year, but seeing the numbers for the first time, I can't vote against him.

[browntown653]

It's a 3 man race at this point. Maybe 4 with Halladay

[HollywoodLeo]

I threw in a homer vote for Saunders (Angels are my AL team) but Lee probably has the edge.

Any of those listed could probably win it, though.