Cliff Lee wins the AL Cy Young Award

I'm glad he won he deserved it:

Lee took the American League Cy Young Award in a runaway Thursday, capping a dominant comeback season that made him the second consecutive Cleveland Indians lefty to earn the coveted prize.

"It feels a lot better than it felt in '07," Lee said on a conference call from his Arkansas home. "I want to win this Cy Young again. I want to make a habit of it."

Demoted to the minors last year, Lee went a major league-best 22-3 this season with a 2.54 ERA. He received 24 of 28 first-place votes and 132 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America.

Kudos to the voter for not giving it to K-Rod, and his wildly overrated 62 save season.

Tim Lincecum wins the 2008 National League Cy Young Award

My favorite pitcher to watch, Tim Lincecum, won the most prestige pitching award in baseball, the Cy Young award, in his second full season:

The slender kid with the whirling windup joined Mike McCormick (1967) as the only San Francisco Giants pitchers to win a Cy Young.

Lincecum received 23 of 32 first-place votes and 137 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Brandon Webb of the Arizona Diamondbacks got four first-place votes and finished second with 73 points.

Although there has been some pretty shitty Cy Young picks in the past, this one was well deserved. On one of the worst teams in baseball, Lincecum was 18-5 with 265 strikeouts. The reason: an unhittable fastball, slider combination. He's only 24, so expect more years of this. That is unless his arm falls off because Bruce Bochy pitches him to death. Let's hope that doesn't happen. Anyway, enjoy some video of Lincecum doing his thing. It's very shitty video but it was the best I could find on YouTube: