Night Owl Cards

I saw an interesting factoid from High Heat Stats MLB a couple of days ago. It said that with Clayton Kershaw winning both the NL Cy Young Award and the MVP Award that it was the sixth time that the Dodgers have done that since the Cy Young was first awarded in 1956. High Heat Stats said it was "astounding," so I assumed that the Dodgers have done this more often than any other major league team. Eager to latch on to any superior news about my team these days, I did a quick bit of research and the Dodgers do indeed hold the record. The team closest to them is the Tigers, who have won the Cy Young Award and MVP in the same year four times, including twice in the last four years. In order to accomplish this feat, it helps to have dominant pitchers. There is still a bias against awarding a pitcher the MVP award (I've long since come over from that side of thinking, I mean, who cares). So if you're going to sway a majority of the voters, you're going to ha...