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Posted By: howard

Nice to conveniently forget to mention Ryan's 16 losses that year and that Palmer only lost nine. Palmer's winning percentage was further above his teams than was Ryan's. I'm not a big fan of winning percentage as a measure of a pitchers effectiveness but you brought it up. Also, despite Ryan's terrific hits per/9 innings rate Palmer actually gave up fewer base runners per/9.

I think it would have been fine if Ryan had won the Cy that year but his not winning it just is not the travesty you make it out to be.