[Huck]

I respectfully disagree. Closers should get the closer's award--the Fireman? Starters should get the Cy. Facing 3-5 batters a game is nowhere near the same thing as 30+ at bats per game. It's a ridiculous comparison.

[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.

[TheBigB]

Russ Ortiz should've gotten more votes than he did.