{"id":13728,"date":"2024-11-29T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=13728"},"modified":"2024-11-29T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T20:22:09","slug":"zack-wheeler-evidently-took-notice-of-his-fourth-place-cy-young-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=13728","title":{"rendered":"Zack Wheeler evidently took notice of his fourth-place Cy Young vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content-main\">\n<div>\n<figure><figcaption>Zack Wheeler finished second in Cy Young voting for the second time in his career. (Grace Del Pizzo\/Phillies Nation)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>No one was terribly surprised when National League Cy Young results were announced and Zack Wheeler had been voted runner-up for the second time in his career.<\/p>\n<p>What caught just as much attention, and more scrutiny, was his placement on one specific ballot \u2014 which ranked Wheeler fourth, behind winner Chris Sale, Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes and Reds star Hunter Greene.<\/p>\n<p>It caught Wheeler\u2019s eye, too.<\/p>\n<p>In the comment section of an MLB Instagram post this week touting Wheeler\u2019s impressive year, the Phillies ace left one not-so-subtle comment: \u201cGreat season, all around.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"X Post\" 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And he did have a higher WAR, as long as you use Baseball Reference\u2018s version (a 0.2-point gap) and not FanGraphs\u2018 (which favored Wheeler by more than one-and-a-half wins). In Brandt\u2019s defense, though, Wheeler had much more time to accumulate that difference: He was one out shy of throwing 50 more innings than Greene did.<\/p>\n<p>For what it\u2019s worth, that innings gap over Skenes was 67.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. Considering that every other voter had Wheeler in the top two \u2014 and, obviously, above both Greene and Skenes \u2014 it was a bit of a comical pick. 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