Cy Young Award

And if you're going to recognize the MVP in 1990 you HAVE to recognize the Cy Young Award.  The criteria for selecting the Cy Young is "vote for whatever pitcher was most valuable to his CFCL team during the season.  The CFCL votes for and distributes our awards (most of the time) well before any announcements are made by MLB for their awards, so we're not voting in a copy cat manner.  And as you can see on the list below, in the 23 years the award has been around, the CFCL has disagreed with MLB eight times.

The thing to keep in mind is that the CFCL used to use Wins as one of the scoring categories, along with ERA, WHiP and Saves.  So a pitcher with four or five more wins that someone else was VASTLY more valuable unless their WHiP and ERA was egregiously high.  In MLB, Wins may be discounted a bit.  But in the CFCL an extra win or two (or five) could garner three or four points in just one category.  That's huge.  That may explain how Mike Hampton won the Cy Young in the CFCL in 1999 over Randy Johnson (who took the award for the first of four in a row in the NL).

Same sort of concept in 1998 when Trevor Hoffman (53 saves) beat out Tom Glavine (20 wins).  The affect of the numbers has greater meaning in the CFCL. 

Here is the list of past winners.  The 'x' next to a player identifies that that player did not win the Cy Young Award in the NL that season.

1990		Doug Drabek		Dem Rebels
1991	x	Lee Smith		Eric's Lambchops
1992		Greg Maddux		Six Packs
1993		Greg Maddux		David's Copperfields
1994		Greg Maddux		ForGoetz Me Nots
1995		Greg Maddux		ForGoetz Me Nots
1996		John Smoltz		ForGoetz Me Nots
1997		Pedro Martinez		David's Copperfields
1998	x	Trevor Hoffman		David's Copperfields
1999	x	Mike Hampton		Six Packs
2000		Randy Johnson		David's Copperfields
2001		Randy Johnson		Six Packs
2002		Randy Johnson		Matt's Hard Hats
2003		Eric Gagne		Picts
2004	x	Ben Sheets		David's Ruffins
2005		Chris Carpenter		David's Ruffins
2006	x	Roy Oswalt		DoorMatts
2007		Jake Peavy		David's Ruffins
2008	x	Johan Santana		Steve's Stones

2009    Tim Lincecum        Kenndoza Line
2010    Roy Halladay         DoorMatts
2011  x Roy Halladay         DoorMatts
2012    R.A. Dickey           Dem Rebels