1981 Cy Young Ballot

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--Vote for your 1981 Cy Young here. Please vote for your top 3, in order, with votes counted 5, 3, 1. Top 25 pitching leaders attached and will be again at season's end. Voting closes midnight EST on Monday, September 24.

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--Dennis Lamp ends his season by claiming his 20th win. He finishes 20-6, 2.45. Lamp gives up some innings to the other CYA contenders, but he is almost half a run ahead in ERA and did that calling Tiger Stadium home.

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--Final leaderboards. Voting extended til Wednesday night.

[scubadan]

The Cy Young award is much tougher to grade than the MVP award with different pitchers staking their claim in different stat categories. Here;s my vote:

1 - Blyleven
2 - Reuss
3 - Lamp

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1) Dennis Lamp: ERA champ by almost half a run (with half his games at Tiger Stadium). He held together a shaky rotation (20 wins for a team with nobody else in double figures) to lead the Knights to the division title.
2) Bill Gullickson: 2nd in ERA (also in a tough park, the Kingdome). Pitched alot more innings than Lamp and would have claimed the top slot if he could have gotten one more win.
3) Bert Blyleven: had virtually identical season to Gullickson and might have ranked ahead if Gullickson didn't have a the hometown advantage
--Larry Gura was the closest miss. Jerry Ruess might have made the ballot if he hadn't returned from his sabbatical to pick up a late loss. Jack Morris lead the league in IP and won his 20th in the final series to nail down the Legends division title. Rick Langford tied for the wins title and provided 250 more than solid innings for the Gamblers. Fernando Valenzula was really surging in the 2nd half and was on the verge of making my ballot before getting knocked around in his last start.

[catcher24]

1. Dennis Lamp, Knights – Led all pitchers with 20+ starts in ERA (2.45) and was fifth in WHIP (1.14) while posting a sparkling 20-6 record.
2. Bert Blyleven, Boys – Another fine season helped keep the Boys in contention to the end.
3. Jerry Reuss, Lumberjaxx – A homer vote for the Jaxx best starter. 20-4 record, 3.13 ERA.

[rmadachik]

1. Bert Blyleven, Boys - Leader in wins and threw 50 more innings than Lamp
2. Dennis Lamp, Knights - ERA leader by a bunch.
3. Jerry Reuss, Jax - best winning percentage

[Erik Bedard]

1. Lamp
2. Blyleven
3. Gullickson

[J W]

I'm inclined to go with Mark's ballot:

1. Dennis Lamp
2. Bill Gullickson
3. Bert Blyleven

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--Lamp takes a tight election from Blyleven
1) Dennis Lamp 24
2) Bert Blyleven 18
3) Bill Gullickson 7
4) Jerry Ruess 5