Palmer won the ERA crown. I get that people really like Nolan Ryan but I don't see how this was any kind of robbery.
Palmer 2.40 (155 ERA+)
Ryan 2.87 (123 ERA+)
The Cy Young shouldn't always just go to the ERA leader but it's hard to call it a robbery when the guy who won was objectively better at not giving up runs, which is the primary duty of a pitcher. I'd put Blyleven 2nd for 1973.
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