Internet Baseball Awards: Cy Young
by Greg Spira
Winning a close race with Barry Zito and Derek Lowe, Pedro
Martinez followed in the footsteps of Randy Johnson, Greg
Maddux and Roger Clemens by winning his fourth Internet Cy Young
Award. Zito was actually named on more ballots than Martinez and finished a
extremely strong second. He is the last member of Oakland's big three to finish
among the top three in Internet AL Cy Young voting; Mark Mulder finished
third in 2001 and Tim Hudson finished third in 2000. Lowe, who allowed
less runs per 9 innings than anyone in baseball in 2002, finished a strong
third. Of last year's top three finishers, only Mark Mulder received any
significant support this time around, finishing seventh. The highest ranking
reliever this year was Billy Koch, who finished tenth.
Name 1 2 3 4 5 B P
Pedro Martinez 954 596 295 56 30 1931 15385
Barry Zito 775 666 449 71 24 1985 14894
Derek Lowe 256 571 859 142 43 1871 11321
Roy Halladay 22 25 71 440 249 807 2319
Jarrod Washburn 13 44 89 319 244 709 2084
Tim Hudson 6 35 86 227 250 604 1666
Mark Mulder 8 65 71 149 125 418 1462
Mark Buehrle 5 6 16 63 118 208 479
Tim Wakefield 1 4 29 31 60 125 336
Billy Koch 0 7 19 28 23 77 251
Eddie Guardado 1 5 5 30 40 81 200
Bartolo Colon 2 4 8 17 54 85 193
David Wells 3 5 4 12 18 42 139
Paul Byrd 0 1 4 18 29 52 110
J.C. Romero 0 2 4 14 31 51 107
Roger Clemens 1 4 7 6 3 21 94
Jamie Moyer 0 2 2 18 13 35 91
Joel Pineiro 1 0 3 10 25 39 80
Troy Percival 0 1 6 8 17 32 78
Mike Mussina 0 3 5 4 5 17 63
Mariano Rivera 2 2 4 2 2 12 62
Cory Lidle 1 0 2 8 10 21 54
Andy Pettitte 2 2 0 0 8 12 42
Ramon Ortiz 1 0 2 5 4 12 39
Kelvim Escobar 0 1 3 0 1 5 23
Johan Santana 1 1 0 1 1 4 21
Rodrigo Lopez 0 0 0 4 5 9 17
Brad Radke 1 0 1 0 2 4 17
Kaz Sasaki 0 1 1 1 2 5 17
Rick Reed 0 1 1 0 2 4 14
Kenny Rogers 1 0 0 1 1 3 14
Ben Weber 0 2 0 0 0 2 14
Tony Fiore 0 1 1 0 1 3 13
Freddy Garcia 0 0 0 3 3 6 12
Arthur Rhodes 0 0 2 0 2 4 12
Ugueth Urbina 0 0 1 2 1 4 12
Jeremy Affeldt 1 0 0 0 0 1 10
Aaron Harang 0 0 1 1 2 4 10
Mike Jackson 1 0 0 0 0 1 10
Bob Wickman 0 0 2 0 0 2 10
Dan Wright 0 1 0 1 0 2 10
Jon Garland 0 0 1 1 0 2 8
Orlando Hernandez 0 1 0 0 1 2 8
Mark Redman 0 0 1 1 0 2 8
C.C. Sabathia 0 0 1 0 2 3 7
Kevin Appier 0 0 0 1 3 4 6
Kyle Lohse 0 0 1 0 1 2 6
Brendan Donnelly 0 0 1 0 0 1 5
Damaso Marte 0 0 1 0 0 1 5
Steve Karsay 0 0 0 1 1 2 4
Ted Lilly 0 0 0 1 1 2 4
Cliff Politte 0 0 0 1 1 2 4
Chad Bradford 0 0 0 0 3 3 3
Keith Foulke 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
LaTroy Hawkins 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Antonio Osuna 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Chuck Finley 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Jorge Julio 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Jeff Weaver 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Buddy Groom 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Ricardo Rincon 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
TOTAL 2059 2059 2059 1701 1469 9347 51870
Randy Johnson easily outpolled teammate Curt Schilling for the 2002 IBA NL Cy Young to become the first pitcher to win five Internet Cy Youngs and the first player to win any Internet Baseball Award four years in a row. Schilling finshed second behind Johnson for the second year in a row, though with much weaker support than last year. Roy Oswalt followed up his seventh-place fiinish in 2001 with a third-place finish this year. Greg Maddux's fourth-place finish marks the tenth year in a row he has finished in the top six of the voting for the Internet NL Cy Young award. Maddux's longtime teammate John Smoltz, in his first year as a closer for the Braves, was the highest ranking reliever in fifth place.
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Name 1 2 3 4 5 B P
Randy Johnson 1756 141 29 14 11 1951 18745
Curt Schilling 121 1387 282 91 29 1910 12631
Roy Oswalt 5 116 562 296 155 1134 4715
Greg Maddux 8 107 351 286 172 924 3614
John Smoltz 26 72 241 194 147 680 2698
Eric Gagne 17 40 151 216 196 620 2049
Tom Glavine 8 31 135 235 233 642 1910
Bartolo Colon 2 20 67 71 106 266 814
Odalis Perez 0 6 24 63 108 201 459
Matt Morris 5 4 25 47 44 125 388
Kevin Millwood 2 9 20 36 35 102 326
Wade Miller 3 4 14 21 30 72 221
Chris Hammond 3 8 7 13 36 67 196
Octavio Dotel 1 2 10 19 31 63 162
Jason Jennings 2 3 9 14 18 46 146
Hideo Nomo 2 3 6 10 15 36 116
A.J. Burnett 0 2 6 12 24 44 104
Darryl Kile 5 2 1 4 20 32 101
Randy Wolf 0 0 5 13 18 36 82
Jason Schmidt 0 2 2 9 13 26 64
Byung-Hyun Kim 1 1 2 6 9 19 54
Robb Nen 0 3 3 3 4 13 49
Matt Clement 1 1 2 3 8 15 44
Mike Remlinger 0 4 1 1 3 9 39
Al Leiter 1 2 1 2 1 7 36
Mark Prior 1 0 3 1 4 9 32
Tomo Ohka 0 0 1 5 8 14 28
Russ Ortiz 0 0 3 2 5 10 26
Kirk Rueter 1 1 0 1 3 6 23
Grant Roberts 1 0 1 1 3 6 21
Vicente Padilla 0 0 1 3 6 10 20
Trevor Hoffman 0 0 1 4 0 5 17
Jason Simontacchi 0 0 3 0 2 5 17
Armando Benitez 1 0 1 0 1 3 16
Mike Williams 1 0 0 1 2 4 15
Kerry Wood 0 0 0 3 5 8 14
Andy Benes 0 1 0 1 3 5 13
Todd Jones 1 0 0 1 0 2 13
Brandon Villafuerte 0 1 1 0 0 2 12
Mark Guthrie 1 0 0 0 1 2 11
Kaz Ishii 0 0 1 2 0 3 11
Paul Quantrill 0 1 0 1 1 3 11
Kip Wells 0 0 2 0 1 3 11
Pedro Astacio 1 0 0 0 0 1 10
Mike Lincoln 1 0 0 0 0 1 10
Billy Wagner 0 1 0 1 0 2 10
Javier Vazquez 0 1 0 0 1 2 8
Josh Fogg 0 1 0 0 0 1 7
Darren Holmes 0 0 1 0 2 3 7
Ryan Jensen 0 1 0 0 0 1 7
Steve Kline 0 0 0 2 1 3 7
Omar Daal 0 0 0 2 0 2 6
Jose Mesa 0 0 1 0 1 2 6
Elmer Dessens 0 0 0 1 2 3 5
Kerry Ligtenberg 0 0 1 0 0 1 5
Steve Reed 0 0 1 0 0 1 5
Steve Traschel 0 0 0 1 1 2 4
Tony Armas Jr. 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Brian Lawrence 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Oliver Perez 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Woody Williams 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Tim Worrell 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Mark Grace 0 0 0 1 0 1 3
Jason Isringhausen 0 0 0 0 2 2 2
Jose Jimenez 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Mike Koplove 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Pat Mahomes 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Damian Moss 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Scott Sauerbeck 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Justin Speier 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
Masato Yoshii 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
TOTAL 1978 1978 1978 1718 1528 9180 50198
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