(07-08-2019 11:24 AM)flyingswoosh Wrote:  

(07-07-2019 01:43 PM)stever20 Wrote:  this goes to what the disconnect is IMO with voting. To a lot of voters, it's not who the best pitcher is, or the best player. It's the guy who had the best season.... 2 completely different animals.

It should be the guy who had the best season, and Scherzer is having the better season. Not Scherzer + The Nationals, but Scherzer. It's like when people say Scherzer beat such and such pitcher. Well no, actually didn't. His team beat the other team, but Scherzer is not going up against the other SP, he's facing the other team's offense and is supported or injured by his team's offense and defense. Scherzer by himself has had a better season than Ryu by himself. That much is obvious.

Ryu though is pretty close right now. Like the tracker showed, it's those 2 and then everyone else.

All that I'm saying is that if Ryu puts together 14 good starts in the 2nd half of the season, Scherzer is going to have to pitch pretty darn well to beat him.

Ryu doesn't have it easy though. just looking- If he starts one of the 1st 3 games after the break(which you would think)- he's going to have to make 2 of his 1st 4 starts @ Boston and @ Colorado. And then a 3rd start either @ Philly or @ Washington. If he still has a sub 2 ERA after all that- he's going to start to get much more respect I think....