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NEW YORK (AP) â Jacob deGrom http://www.piratesfanproshop.com/authentic-ivan-nova-jersey , Max Scherzer and Aaron Nola are going pitch for pitch in the NL Cy Young Award race.Problem is, that prize might not do the trio justice. Not according to baseballâs advanced analytics.With 2½ weeks left in the season, itâs time to ask: Should one of those three be MVP?âItâs the best player in the league,â deGrom said. âIf that happens to be a pitcher and they can win it, then itâs well deserved.âThereâs no debating deGromâs dominance, even if itâs not translating into wins for the struggling New York Mets. Scherzerâs awards-season resume is more traditional, bolstered by league-leading totals in victories and strikeouts. And Nola is right there, too, in a breakout season with the Philadelphia Phillies.But an MVP? For three pitchers who are going to miss the postseason? Some donât think pitchers should even be considered for the award, though theyâve won 25 times before.The stats devised by sabermetricians suggest it would be a swing and a miss not to consider a pitcher â certainly not in a year when the crop of NL hitters just doesnât add up.The National League has produced at least one hitter worth 6.0 wins above replacement (WAR) each season since the Chicago Cubsâ Hack Wilson topped 1926 at 5.7, according to Fangraphs.This yearâs group is equally underwhelming, strictly by the numbers. Milwaukee teammates Lorenzo Cain (5.4) and Christian Yelich (5.3) top the circuit, followed by Arizonaâs Paul Goldschmidt (5.2), St. Louisâ Matt Carpenter (5.2), Chicagoâs Javier Baez (4.9) and Coloradoâs Nolan Arenado (4.8).For a catch-all stat like WAR â which measures contributions on offense http://www.piratesfanproshop.com/authentic-jameson...lon-jer sey , defense, baserunning and pitching â that 0.6 gap from Arenado on up is nearly negligible. Canât go wrong choosing among them.But that group is far behind the leagueâs top pitchers by the same measure. DeGrom leads the NL with 8.1 WAR, and Scherzer, Nola and Diamondbacks ace Patrick Corbin are also ahead of the hitters. Over at Baseball-Reference, which has its own WAR formula, Scherzer (9.7) holds the top spot way ahead of Cain (6.3), with Nola, deGrom and Rockies left-hander Kyle Freeland all beating the batters.Itâs unusual, but not unheard of, for a pitcher to lead a league in WAR. By Baseball-Referenceâs math, Clayton Kershaw did it when he won NL MVP in 2014, as did Justin Verlander for his AL MVP in 2011. Corey Kluber, Cliff Lee, Roy Halladay and Zack Greinke each did it over the past decade, too. But in the age of ever-tighter pitch counts and innings limits Brad Hand Jersey , itâs not as common as it once was and figures to keep getting tougher.Of the 25 pitcher MVPs, 14 were awarded before the Cy Young Award was introduced in 1956. Prior to Kershaw and Verlander, the previous pitcher winner was reliever Dennis Eckersley in 1992, and the prior starter to take MVP was Roger Clemens in 1986.Marlins manager and 1985 AL MVP Don Mattingly was the runner-up to Clemens that year â and wasnât thrilled about it.âHard for me as a player, to kind of know I play 160 games or whatever it is and then somebody has 30, 35 starts,â Mattingly said.Heâs changed his mind since becoming a manager. Doesnât hurt that he was leading the Dodgers when Kershaw won MVP.âIf youâre talking about them as Cy Young and MVPs, theyâre guys that are basically taking care of your bullpen that day, stopping any kind of streaks, adding to streaks â a guy you know you can count on,â Mattingly said.Mattingly has seen plenty of deGrom, Scherzer and Nola in the NL East.âI can see where you could look at them as being most valuable player,â he said.The cases for those pitchers are a little different from their predecessors â especially for deGrom.The Mets ace is just 8-9, putting him in the historic position of having more WAR than wins. According to Baseball-Referenceâs records, deGrom would be just the second qualified pitcher ever to have more WAR than wins http://www.padresfanproshop.com/authentic-chase-he...ley-jer sey , following Eddie Smith (4-17 record, 4.1 WAR) with the Philadelphia Athletics in 1937.At this point, deGromâs underwhelming win total probably wonât hurt him much in Cy Young balloting. Voters set aside the stat when crowning Seattleâs Felix Hernandez in 2010 despite a 13-12 mark, and the electorate seems to agree that victories arenât paramount to being the best pitcher.But to be the most valuable? Voters might still be stuck on wins there. Opinions are all over the board on how to quantify value â some voters insist MVPs have to come from winning teams, others see winning as something of a tiebreaker, and a growing number of progressive writers try to separate a playerâs performance from that of his teammates entirely.Thatâs where deGromâs candidacy could fall apart. Of the 21 starting pitchers to win MVP, all of them won at least 20 games. DeGrom is going to have a hard time winning 10.Thatâs not deGromâs fault, of course. He has a 1.71 ERA this season, and yet New York is 12-17 behind him thanks to minimal run support.DeGrom has taken to helping himself, driving in four runs since Aug. 3, including New Yorkâs only RBIs in 2-1 losses to the Braves and Cubs.Scherzer has been even better with the bat. Heâs hitting .270 with six RBIs and a stolen base. Those contributions wonât help him stave off deGrom in his pursuit for a fourth Cy Young and third straight in the NL, but it could sway some MVP voters.Nolaâs pitch seems to have lost a little steam as the Phillies have faded out of the playoff picture. Philadelphia dropped 6½ games behind Atlanta in the NL East after getting swept by the Nationals in a doubleheader Tuesday. Nola was 16-4 with a 2.29 ERA prior to a start Wednesday and wasnât far behind Scherzer with 8.9 WAR, per Baseball-Reference.Unless a hitter separates from the pack over the final couple weeks, one of those three just might be an MVP.âItâs been done before,â Mets manager Mickey Callaway said. âThey should be considered.â As Cincinnati Reds pitcher Matt Harvey heads into free agency this offseason Tyson Ross Jersey , he is keeping his options open.Well, most of his options."There's only one team out there I would not sign with," Harvey said Tuesday, per MLB.com's Mark Sheldon. "That's about it."Harvey, of course, is alluding to the New York Mets.After New York took him with the seventh overall pick in 2010, he quickly became viewed as a future ace. The Dark Knight debuted in 2012, posting a sub-3.00 ERA in each of his first two-plus seasons. In his first full season in 2013, he made the All-Star team and finished fourth in National League Cy Young voting.Harvey also helped the Mets reach the 2015 World Series. That run will always be remembered for the right-hander lobbying his way into staying in Game 5 after throwing eight dominant innings:That decision backfired, as he couldn't close things out in the ninth. The Kansas City Royals went on to win in extra innings to capture their first World Series title since 1985.Neither Harvey nor the Mets have been the same since.Injuries took their toll on Harvey through the years (and the Mets in general), and he has not posted an ERA below 4.86 since 2015. He wasdesignated for assignmentin May before being traded to Cincinnati.He showed glimpses of his old form with the Reds, although the overall numbers may not show it: 7-7, 4.50 ERA in 24 starts, 111 strikeouts in 128 innings.As his name came up in trade rumors during the summer, Harveylet it be knownhe wanted to remain in Cincinnati. He said the same recently."[The Reds] brought me here Allen Craig Jersey , and they gave me the ball every fifth day," he said. "So it was something I'm very happy about and taking into consideration, and we'll see what happens moving forward."Before Harvey was dealt to Cincinnati, there were questions about his clubhouse presence and off-field behavior. Neither proved to be an issue with the Reds, leaving the pitching-needy organization possibly interested in a reunion."We definitely will stack Matt up against the available options," President of Baseball Operations Dick Williams said Tuesday. "The fact that he's been here and we've seen how he interacts with our coaches and our players will certainly work in his favor."Everybody's been favorably impressed. And we know that pitching is a priority going forward. All our pro scouting staff is in town, and we are currently discussing every free-agent player, starting with pitching. We'll also be talking about trade targets. There's a lot of possibilities."Harvey, 29, was once expected to earn a major payday when he hit free agency. That won't happen now.
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