Since I can’t get the click to the entry on the MLB Baseball Awards page, (Bob Gibson Award is for the pitcher with the best stats, not necessarily the most VALUABLE pitcher in the league) here it is:

Roger Clemens, Houston Astros
Last year he won the MVN award and his 7th Cy Young Award.
This year, he Won the MVN Bob Gibson award. Incredibly, he had almost the best season of his 22 major league years at age 42 – 43. (His best was in 1990)

Let me say that again – he had one of the best seasons for ANY pitcher, ever. At age 42. Incredible.
Started 32 games
53 RSAA (1st in NL)
ERA – 1.87 (1st in NL)
BAA – .198 (1st in NL)
WHIP – 1.01 (2nd in NL – right behind Pedro)
Pitched 211.1 innings (tied for 20th with Glavine)
185 K (10th in NL)
65 BB
11 HR (1st in NL – tied with Dontrelle)
7.88 K/ 9 IP
2.64 BB/ 9 IP
0.47 HR/ 9 IP
100 pitches/ GS (lowest of his career)

Home starts:
Record 7-4
Team record in starts 8-9 (meaning that the bullpen lost 5 of em)
ERA 2.33
BAA .204
3.2 Run Support/ Game (subtracting the 10 run game the day Bess died) 2.64 RS/ game (lowest RS in NL of pitchers who pitched at least 180 innings)

Away starts
Record 6-4
Team record 6-9 (meaning the relievers lost 5 of em)
ERA 1.32
BAA.204
3.60 RS/ Game (and this includes the 14 runs in 1 game at Washington)
Games with 8 IP (4 games – went 1-2 with 1 ND)
0 ER – 1 ND
1 ER – 1 – W
2 ER – 2 L
Games with 7 IP (17 games – went 8 -2 with 7 ND)
0 ER – 6 games, 3 W, 3 ND
1 ER – 7 games, 4 W, 1 L, 2 ND
2 ER – 3 games – 1 W, 2 ND
3 ER – 1 game, L
Games with 6 – 6.2 IP – (6 games – went 3 – 2 with 1 ND)
0 ER – 3 games, 2 W, 1 ND
1 ER – 1 game, W
2 ER – 1 game, L
5 ER – 1 game, L
Games with 5 – 5.2 IP ( 4 games – went 1-1 with 2 ND)
0 ER – 1 game – ND
2 ER – 1 game – ND
4 ER – 2 games, 1W, 1 L
Games with in 20 of 33 games, he received 3 or fewer runs of support
and
in 11 games, he gave up NO ER – 5 W, 6 ND
in 9 games, he gave up 1 ER – 6W, 1 L, 2 ND
in 7 games, he gave up 2 ER – 1W, 3 L and 3 ND
in 1 game, gave up 3 ER – L
in 2 games. gave up 4 ER – 1 W, 1 L
in 2 games, gave up 5 ER – 2 L

Games in which Clemens was tied or leading when he left the game – 11

Games in which he was tied or leading when he left the game that the bullpen lost – 9

Amazing how many BBWAA think that this is 100% Roger’s fault, ain’t it… And because of it, he didn’t deserve the Cy Young, which is mostly about total number of wins, HOPEFULLY for a winning team (they kinda hafta make exceptions for the Steve Carltons who have the bad taste to win 27 games for a 57 win team) which is why Dontrelle Willis came in second. (Read Ryne Sandberg’s explanation of this if yall don’t believe me: http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AgxuSggUvS0T6JAHi43l..ARvLYF?slug=rs-nlcyyoung111005&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Last year, some people complained that Randy Johnson should have won the Cy Young based on his stats, but was jobbed because he was on a lousy team and had poor support – but he DID win the MVN Bob Gibson award.

This year Roger is taking Randy’s place.
Randy, of course, went to NYY and got nothing. Except 16 mill….
Also, click here to read my entry from earlier this year about why he should win his 8th Cy Young and here to read my thoughts about why Roger is a “good sport…)
And click here to read Jeff Kallman’s evaluation of why Roger’s win totals are not a good measure of how well he pitched in each start.

Mind, for some reason, too many people really do think that even if a starter pitches 7 or innings of shutout ball, if the bullpen loses the game, it is entirely the fault of the starter that his teammates didn’t hit and that’s why he didn’t win…
Oh yeah – STILL no word on whether or not Roger gonna re-up…..

Tags: Houston Astros, MLB

This entry was posted on Friday, November 25th, 2005 at 9:28 am and is filed under Astros baseball, Roger Clemens. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.