Koji Uehara Picks Up Cy Young Votes
Red Sox closer Koji Uehara finished 7th in voting for the American League Cy Young Award. Detroit's Max Scherzer won the award getting 28 out of 30 first place votes.
Uehara received a second place and two third place votes. He took over as Sox closer in the second half of the year and finished with astonishing numbers...21 saves, 1.09 ERA, 101 K's in 74-innings.
Here's how the voting went for AL Cy Young...
Player, Club | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Scherzer, Tigers | 28 | 1 | 1 | 203 | ||
| Yu Darvish, Rangers | 19 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 93 | |
| Hisashi Iwakuma, Mariners | 6 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 73 | |
| Anibal Sanchez, Tigers | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 46 |
| Chris Sale, White Sox | 1 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 44 | |
| Bartolo Colon, Athletics | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 25 | |
| Koji Uehara, Red Sox | 1 | 2 | 10 | |||
| Felix Hernandez, Mariners | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||
| Matt Moore, Rays | 2 | 4 | ||||
| Greg Holland, Royals | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
| James Shields, Royals | 1 | 2 |
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