Hideo Nomo Has a Posse

Larry Stone is a’tweeting that the BBWAA have just voted 46-26 to expand the Cy Young ballot from three to five and introduce some sort of weighting system. Really? A weighting system? No details yet that I can find re: said weighting system, but the whole thing seems as though it will make awards time even more ridiculous than it already is. This year we had the SCANDAL of Tim Lincecum winning despite receiving fewer first place votes than Chris Carpenter.

It seems to me that you should have awards run like an American presidential election: you have one vote, you cast that vote for one person. OK, maybe I’m idealizing the sanctity of American politics here (and being grossly naive in the process), but voting a guy second place doesn’t really mean much. To quote Ricky Bobby quoting his father, second place is the first loser. ¶