ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!! sure he had a great regular season and thats what the award is based on. BUT GOT BOMBED IN THE PLAYOFFS BY THE SOX EVEN WHEN HE HAD A CHANCE TO CLINCH THE SERIES FOR CLE. Also not to mention josh beckett won 20 games and had an ERA under 2 in the playofs.Whlie CC looked like a 10 year old on the mound. im sure Beckett doesnt really care. WS Champ he now has 2 rings and ALCS MVP.
But wow voters WOW..... And dont give me the bs about the run support. Not Beckett's fault his team could hit for him

They voted before the Postseason, otherwise Beckett would have been CY Young.

NEW YORK -- C.C. Sabathia won the AL Cy Young Award on Tuesday, beating out several worthy contenders by a comfortable margin and becoming the first Cleveland pitcher in 35 years to earn the honor.


AL Cy Young Voting

C.C. Sabathia, who pitched a major league-high 241 innings and won 19 games for the Indians, comfortably beat Josh Beckett to win his first Cy Young award.

The Indians ace received 19 of 28 first-place votes and finished with 119points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Boston's Josh Beckett was second with eight first-place votes and 86 points, while John Lackey of the Los Angeles Angels got the other first-place vote and came in third.

Sabathia went 19-7 with a 3.21 ERA and 209 strikeouts, pitching a major league-high 241 innings. Beckett (20-7) became the only big league pitcher to win 20 games since 2005, compiling a 3.27 ERA in 200 2-3 innings. Lackey led the AL in ERA at 3.01, going 19-9 and tossing 224 innings.

Voting took place before the postseason, when Sabathia struggled while Beckett pitched the Red Sox to a World Series championship with a string of dominant outings.

Sabathia became the first Indians pitcher to win the award since Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry in 1972.

^^ iknew they voted for the reg. season lol i mentioned that. i still cant believe it tho.

BULLSHIT!! Sabathia had a good season but beckett was dominant. the voters hate the red sox. thats why Rice isn't a hall of famer. it all comes down to this. the sox are still the champs.

Heres one reason why

Boston Runs Per Game- 5.4

Cleveland Runs Per Game- 5.0

ooooo .4 runs more. Beckett should have won, end of story, whether voting took place before, or after the post season

^^^ only somebody who slept through the playoffs would say CC lol

the votes before though so . he finally gets his due. he got robbed of his ROTY by that bitch ichiro...

Ichiro desrved it. he broke the record for hits. he wasn't robbed. josh beckett was robbed.

Finally !!! CC gets his due, bout time! remember, it's the whole season, excluding playoffs! and CC was better, nobody got robbed of anything period!

Sabathia had better numbers than Beckett and threw 40 MORE innings. Thats around 25% more innings than JB.

And over a full season .5 runs per outing is HUGE.

poor beckett =(

uh hellllo.. ichiro shouldnt have even gotten votes. he wasn't a rookie... duh! and if you have played baseball it takes a little more pressure off the pitcher if his team is scoring more runs..