Comments on: Read: Pedro Will Win Cy Young

By: MudvilleNine

MudvilleNine — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:47:58 +0000

I believe the Orioles had four 20 game winners one year a while back.

By: gowrightgo

gowrightgo — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:57:08 +0000

Petey Petey Petey. Where for art though?

The man is in PSL and approaching the final 3 holes of the back nine of his career. I think the world of him and my biggest concern about his return was would he still be able to produce strikeouts and outs with a repaired shoulder. To be honest…that question was answered last year. He is at no greater risk to be hurt or injured than any other 36 yr old pitcher in the bigs. Probably a little less so since he has “taken care” of his problems through the surgery.

I am not about to predict his win totals or cy young or anything like that. I am going to say he will be the best pitcher in NY on both teams next year including Santana.

I tend to be a believer that playing in Ny takes a little getting used to unless you grow up playing here like Gooden did and Wright did and Seaver did and Reyes. Most struggle in their first season and some never get back to the comfort level they had elsewhere when they were so successful.

I think Santana will eventually be great and will win 20 games for us at some point in a season during his contract and will win a cy. Just don’t think this is that year. I do think that Pedro is hungry for a new contract, for the title of ace of the staff and for a WS championship that he delivers. He will be lights out in 08

By: raincntry

raincntry — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:49:00 +0000

I’ll be happy if Pedro makes 30 starts this year and somewhere around 200 innings. If he do that the numbers will take care of themselves.

By: sincekindergarten

sincekindergarten — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:30:25 +0000

No. I have Johan going 22-5, myself. I have zero statistical analysis for this–it’s just a feeling.

By: farb09

farb09 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 16:23:52 +0000

Obviously I’m excited to hear that Pedro’s throwing the ball well… but man, I hate Heyman so much. He loves quoting these random anonymous sources because it makes him look like some super-exclusive, well-connected baseball insider who’s so much more knowledgable than the average fan, but in reality his opinions are stupid and his writing is terrible.

Last week he wrote a column defending Rollins over Holliday as MVP (in which he mentioned Wright only to say that he couldn’t vote for DW due to the collapse, even though he admitted that it wasn’t Wright’s fault… argh, so illogical). Anyway, his primary defense of Rollins was that, “even a Rockies insider told me that Rollins deserved the award over Holliday.” Now, who do you think he talked to? If it was Clint Hurdle or Troy Tulowitski, maybe that opinion would carry some weight. But I’m willing to bet that he spoke to the Vice President of Public Relations, or Chief Groundskeeper, or a peanut vendor. What makes the opinion of some random Rockies personnel so much more valid than the empirical evidence of statistics? Answer: nothing, Heyman just arrogantly wants to appear well-connected. (Not that Holliday deserved the award either; Wright was the obvious choice.) Anyway, sorry to bring up the sore subject of MVP again, but… Jon Heyman represents everything that is wrong with sports journalism.

Go Pedro!

By: Hit The Weights Zeile

Hit The Weights Zeile — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:32:23 +0000

he wont have the innings pitched to win it over the type of guys mentioned above. ive never cared about my teams players winning individual awards (excluding piazza winning an mvp bc he was my favorite baseball player on any team). as long as pedro can go out be healthy and produce for the team hopefully win 15 or maybe even more if possible i think we’d all be more than satisfied with that.

By: zen

zen — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:30:22 +0000

What exactly would keep someone from going on the record with this statement? Anonymous source?

By: Constnza81V2.0

Constnza81V2.0 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:53:09 +0000

I agree re: Pedro. After dealing with his various injuries and ailments that past two seasons, the guy seems legitimately healthy for the first time in his career. There’s always “risk” with a pitcher, especially an older pitcher, but I’m not going to sit here and count on Pedro to miss a bunch of starts. He’s healthy until proven otherwise in my book.

By: letz_go_metz

letz_go_metz — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:48:47 +0000

I love hearing stuff like this, even from ‘anonymous’.

His arm strength should be up from last year. He’s got encyclopedic knowledge of pitching and plenty of smarts to utilize it. A huge heart and amazing willpower. Yeah, barring some unforeseen calamity like a taxi ride form hell, well…I have no doubt Pedro could win the Cy Young award.

He’s one of the great characters in the game right now and he LIKES playing for the Mets. As a fan I’m just grateful he enjoys playing in Flushing Meadows.

By: metschamp08

metschamp08 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 14:42:36 +0000

I think that if Pedro pitches like he did at the end of last season he will make a run for it, but thats it. He is competing with guys like Santana, Young, Peavy, Zambrano, I mean there are just too many people he will have to compete with, and he is coming off an injury.

The mets have a rotation where their top 4 starting pitchers could win 15+ games each. That’s amazing. What other team has that, maybe Arizona, and San Diego but not many.