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Originally Posted by earlywynnfan
Well, Felix did the same thing Kluber did: pitch an awesome last game trying to get his team into the playoffs.
I have not looked up any of Felix's starts, so I'm not able to make a fair, impartial judgement, but in Kluber's 9 losses his offense scored 18 runs. That just sucks for any pitcher.
Again, this should be about the closest CY vote I've seen in a long time!
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Will start this by saying both had excellent seasons.
Run Support per game for the two across the entire season:
Kluber 4.35
Hernandez 4.29
Fairly close but a lot of the run support for Felix came in only a few games (run support in 5 of those 15 wins were 10, 12, 10, 12 and 11). That emans of the 146 runs Seattle scored with Felix in the game 55 came in five starts - the ramining 29 starts he received 91 runs of support or 3.13 per game. hence you need to consider:
Three no-decisions in games in which he allowed zero runs.
Four no-decisions and a loss when he allowed one run.
Two no-decisions and two losses when he allowed two runs.
So zero wins and three losses in those nine games. You could expect to win 7+ of those starts with no losses - so his win line could read 22-3. Edge Felix?
WHIP = a wide margin:
Kluber 1.09
Hernandez 0.92
Hernandez has the lower ERA (even with the tampering this week).
There was also the MLB record 16 game streak of 7 IP of 3 or less runs scored.
I would be stunned if Kluber won.