Indians right-hander Corey Kluber was named the 2014 AL Cy Young Award winner on Wednesday night, the BBWAA announced. He received 17 of 30 first place votes and beat out Mariners righty Felix Hernandez by only ten points. If one first place vote had gone to Felix instead Kluber, Hernandez would have won.
No Yankees pitcher received a Cy Young vote, which isn’t all that surprising. I was hopeful Dellin Betances would steal a bottom of the ballot vote a la David Robertson in 2011, but that didn’t happen. White Sox southpaw Chris Sale finished a distant third in the voting and former Yankee Phil Hughes finished seventh. The Twins right-hander received one fourth place vote and four fifth place votes. Good for him. The full voting results are at the BBWAA’s site.
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