I probably won't. The pitching staff is average but the hitting is what set it apart from the other teams. I'll have HOF Cal Ripken, Paul Molitor and Rod Carew on the bench. That's how deep this team goes.

Vuckovich was the worst in a multi-year string of really bad Cy Young selections, especially in the AL. See also Stone over Norris (1980), Fingers over McCatty (1981), Hoyt over Quiz or Stieb in 1983. What's really surprising is that the AL voters of that era were perfectly willing to give the award to a reliever (Fingers in 81, Hernandez in 84) but somehow couldn't see fit to give it to Quisenberry in either 82 or 83. Or Dave Stieb, who almost certainly should have won multiple Cy Youngs in the early 80s.

Or maybe Jack Morris. While I am not a particularly huge fan of Jack Morris, one of the biggest critiques against his HOF induction was his failure to win the Cy Young award. But he was a strong candidate for several years in the 80s, and could have easily been given the award in 1981, 83, 84...maybe more than once.

Pitching be damned. We'll go with 1979

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1989

Looks like I may be up. If so:

1980

1975

Posted by schwarze on 8/19/2020 4:28:00 PM (view original):
I really wanted to take 1982 and that great offense.

On a related note, '82 Pete Vuckovich has to be the worst pitcher ever to win the Cy Young award. His 1.50 whip is easily the worst of all Cy Young winners. Next worst is 1980 Steve Stone (1.30). His K to BB ratio was 1.03. Next worse is '58 Bob Turley (1.31). His OAV was .275. Next worse was '93 Jack McDwoell (.266). By most measures, he was the 4th or 5th best SP on his own team.

It wouldn't surprise me, if toyboys leaves the 1982 A.L. Cy Young award winner off the roster.

Between the four teams drafting 1982 in your Quick Drafts tournament, there was nary a taker on Vukovich.