[Hegewisch Dupa]

Relative comparisons NEED be made, not avoided. A starter gets to pitch in blow-outs; a closer never does. A closer can go day after day, a starter can't. It's just a difficult comparison. But shying away from it is like the clown sportswriters who refuse to vote a pitcher MVP. Just because it isn't easily laid out in front of them doesn't give them the right to avoid thinking.

[Huck]

I don't think pitchers should be MVPs. They should win Cy Youngs. Unless they are closers. Simple.