Orioles have two pitchers in the top 10 in ESPN's Cy Young Predictor

[Aglets]

http://espn.go.com/mlb/features/cyyoung

Zach Britton at #4, and Wei-Yin Chen at #9. I doubt this has happened anytime since Mussina was around.

Will Zach and Wei-Yin get some votes?

[BergerKing]

2015 is going to be the year of Kevin Gausman! He will be this teams ace.

[ShaneDawg85]

Tillman was worth almost a full win more than Chen (which I still don't understand how he was only at 2.4), yet Chen is higher? No disrespect to Chen, who was much better than some folks want to give him credit for, but Tillman had the better season across the board and Chen being at #9 is largely a function of his win total.

[Nevermore]

How often do closers win the Cy Young? I know that it's happened, but as I recall, not very often. I'm asking this because I want to give my vote (for what it's worth, which is nothing because I'm a fan and not a baseball writer. ) to Zach Britton.

[Ruzious]

Britton at #4 sounds nonsensical.

[Chavez Ravine]

How often do closers win the Cy Young? I know that it's happened, but as I recall, not very often. I'm asking this because I want to give my vote (for what it's worth, which is nothing because I'm a fan and not a baseball writer. ) to Zach Britton.

The golden age (if you could call it that) of closers winning the Cy Young seems to have past. There hasn't been one since Eric Gagne in 2003 and not one in the AL since Dennis Eckersley in 1992. But there was a fair smattering of them during the 70's and 80's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cy_Young_Award

[Dark Helmet]

Wow. Britton at 4 and didnt even make the AS team.

[Frobby]

Neither Britton nor Chen got any votes. Jake Arrieta got three fifth place votes in the NL.

[AJismyhero]

The Cy Young Predictor on ESPN is fairly non-sensical. It didn't even have Chris Sale, who was a finalist, in the Top 10.

[MarylandAaron]

Appreciate the kudos to those guys, but honestly, the O's have no one that should be near the top ten. LOL

[Aglets]

Appreciate the kudos to those guys, but honestly, the O's have no one that should be near the top ten. LOL

I agree actually. Just thought it was fascinating that ESPN was showing such an Orioles bias. I guess that's just typical.

[ShaneDawg85]

I agree actually. Just thought it was fascinating that ESPN was showing such an Orioles bias. I guess that's just typical.

I consider it more lazy math and reporting that they could have had Chen on their list in the first place. As I said, nothing against the guy, but he wasn't better than Tillman this season.

[DrungoHazewood]

How does the Cy Young predictor work? If it's reverse engineering the voting based on all of Cy Young history then you're going to get some screwy results that are heavily slanted towards wins/losses, innings and ERA. If it's just based on the last 10 years or so you still might get screwy results because we're in a transition period where the writers are slowly awakening to the reality that single-season pitcher win totals and even ERAs aren't directly the responsibility of the pitcher.

[WEAVERMAN]

Congrats to both ZB and Wei Yin on their great 2014.

[Aglets]

How does the Cy Young predictor work? If it's reverse engineering the voting based on all of Cy Young history then you're going to get some screwy results that are heavily slanted towards wins/losses, innings and ERA. If it's just based on the last 10 years or so you still might get screwy results because we're in a transition period where the writers are slowly awakening to the reality that single-season pitcher win totals and even ERAs aren't directly the responsibility of the pitcher.

Rob Neyer and Bill James devised an equation to rank pitchers based on past winners I believe.

You can see it at the bottom of the page at the link I provided. It's a function of IP, ER, K's, saves, shutouts, wins, losses, and "leading your team to the division championship."

Obviously it worked this year! Got Kershaw and Kluber.