and so it begins pretty sure he'd trade this (and whatever else he wins) for a ring Baseball America chooses Kershaw as 2014 top MLB player By Cary Osborne -- DODGER INSIDER Baseball America announced on Tuesday that Clayton Kershaw is its choice for Major League Baseball Player of the Year. Kershaw joins Matt Kemp (2011) as the only Dodgers to be named the publication’s top Major League Player. Baseball America has awarded the honor since 1998. After Kershaw’s monumental 2014 season in which he became the first pitcher in baseball history to lead the Majors in ERA for a fourth consecutive season, the Dodger ace is expected to take home a slew of awards. The 2014 Players Choice Awards will be announced on November 3. Kershaw is a finalist for four of those awards. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America will name the Cy Young Award winners for both leagues on Nov. 12 and the Most Valuable Player Award winners on November 13. Kershaw is also up for his second Roberto Clemente Award, which goes “to the player who best represents the game of baseball through positive contributions on and off the field, including sportsmanship and community involvement.” The award winner will be revealed during the World Series. _
Can't even feel good about this or his Cy Young and MVP Hopefully he accepts his award on TV and takes the blame for this season and is awesome about it now that there has been a little time
Can't dispute the fact that he pitched one of the best seasons ever. Regular season. He's too good not to win a ring or two. He just needs help.
Needs help? Don't really know what you mean here...by not throwing fastball after fastball or something? In those spots? he was leading 6-1...how much help does he need? Should have been taken out of the game the second time, no doubt. But whatever it is in CK that causes his meltdowns in the post, it's within him, more than someone else's fault. No one wants to admit it, because the kid is so good and such a superior person; but it's his demon, and he's gotta beat it. People making silly excuses for him just makes it worse. And all pitchers work on short rest in the post...name of the game unless your team is stacked, and we never are or were under Ned.
I just think when you get to the playoffs you have to manage your pitching staff differently. I agree with you on the first game, but maybe DBB should have pulled him after the 4th-5th straight hit??? His second start on 3 days’ rest, he hits 100 pitches, pull him. The help I was talking about was both middle relief and managerial. And yes, it's in his head too...
another factor that day was over 100 and wainwright struggled as well definitely gonna run out of fuel quicker when it's hot a good manager might have anticipated that and had someone up and ready earlier hindsight 20/20 and all, just saying :mattingly:
In theory, yes , he should have pulled him. But when the ERA leader in the ML is rolling along at 6-1 late, you don't have whoever warming up. I think that those hits came so furiously fast, that Kershaw along with DBB, were simply overwhelmed by it's brievity, and by the time whoever it was that did come in (and suck), it was well on it's way to disaster. The recipe was set in stone, an ambush for sure, and people aren't mentioning his meltdown a year ago, when he got clocked then, too. The excuse then was no one hit for the Dodgers, but he did go out there and pitch like Brett Tomko on a bad day, nevertheless. Some guys hit Koufax well. Maybe it's a Cardinal thing...IDK. I have no vendetta against CK, I love him too. And admire him beyond the perimeters of BB, where he also excels. It's just what I saw and what I'm left with....and no softening or spinning of it will change what happened, in my mind anyway. It's not like it was a rarity with him either.Whatever kind of cool and superior guy he is, he gets millions and millions of dollars not to do what he did...and although silly and overused now, it is what it is. IMO, anyway; the funny thing is: I believe if you asked him about it, he'd say it was much the same thing.
was watching mlb network yesterday they were debating who you would take if you were starting a franchise, kershaw or bumgarner most of the guys (millar, casey, et al) said they would still take kersh but then ryan dempster chimes in and says he'd take madbum hey dempster... james loney's ball from the 2008 nlds (which still hasn't landed btw) says hello
That's good that analysts who are paid to talk about baseball aren't losing their minds over a small sample size.
