This is a great day for the Seattle Mariners organization. Felix Hernandez has joined Randy Johnson as the only Mariners pitchers to win the American League Cy Young Award.But this is also a great day for baseball. By rewarding Felix for his amazing season, the Baseball Writers Association of America has finally begun to look past old-fashioned benchmarks for greatness. Wins, the traditional measure of a pitcher's worth, would not even begin to tell the full story of Felix's season. You have to look at his sparkling ERA, his massive strikeout and innings pitched numbers, or the fact that he gave up only a handful of home runs. With this award, statistical analysis has won a major victory over older, ignorant ways of assessing baseball players.
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