{"id":232,"date":"2024-10-21T22:02:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T22:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2024-10-21T22:02:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T22:02:24","slug":"phillies-ace-zack-wheeler-named-a-finalist-for-players-choice-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Phillies ace Zack Wheeler named a finalist for Players Choice Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p id=\"inline-text-0\">As expected, the accolades for the Philadelphia Phillies&#8217; best player this past season continue flooding in. On Monday, the MLBPA released the finalists for the 2024 Players Choice Awards and Phillies staff ace Zack Wheeler was named as a finalist for the National League Outstanding Pitcher Award.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-1\">Wheeler is nominated alongside Atlanta Braves ace Chris Sale and super-rookie Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates. It&#8217;s an impressive trio of arms that could very well be the finalists for the NL Cy Young Award as well.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">As the Phillies&#8217; No. 1 starter, Wheeler had another dominant season and put together an impressive Cy Young-worthy resume. He won a career-high 16 games in 32 starts, throwing 200 innings for just the second time in his 10-year career. He posted career bests with a 2.57 ERA and a 0.96 WHIP, striking out 224 batters along the way.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\">Wheeler ranked second in innings pitched in the NL, just 4 2\/3 frames behind Logan Webb of the San Francisco Giants. His ERA was second only to Sale&#8217;s 2.38, as was his 5.4 fWAR. He led the NL in WHIP, finishing third overall in the majors. He also led all of Major League Baseball with a ridiculous 26 quality starts, well ahead of teammate Aaron Nola who finished second in the NL with 20.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-5\">Wheeler was also recently nominated for the NL Gold Glove Award at the starting pitcher position. He&#8217;s competing against Sale for that honor as well.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">The Players Choice Awards came into existence in 1992, recognizing outstanding performances of players both on and off the field.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">Per the MLBPA release: &#8220;The awards are an especially distinguished honor for Players, as they are chosen through a vote of their peers. The winners of this year&#8217;s awards will be announced during the FOX MLB pregame show ahead of the World Series Game 2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">Game 2 of the World Series is scheduled for Saturday, Oct. 26, at 8:08 p.m. ET, so Phillies fans won&#8217;t have to wait long to see if Wheeler takes home his first of what we hope to be many pieces of hardware this offseason.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"inline-text-9\">Trending on That Ball&#8217;s Outta Here<\/h3>\n<figure>\n<blockquote data-embed-name=\"TBOH links (current)\" data-type=\"GroupOfLinks\" data-url=\"https:\/\/content-enrichment-service.mmsport.voltaxservices.io\/properties\/6\/embeds\/01he0ecnazvcyqh\/data\" data-with-images=\"false\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">manual<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zack Wheeler is up against Chris Sale and Paul Skenes for the NL Outstanding Pitcher Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - 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