Zack Greinke won the AL Cy Young Award today. As much as I would have liked to see Scott Feldman with the award, I am glad Zack won it. The Royals need all the lift they can get and it is nice to see a different uniform in the highlight reel.
Since Zack never played for Texas I decided to see if he favorably compares to any pitchers who have. Checking baseball-reference.com I see that I am in luck. Listed as the third most similar at age 25 (Zack's current age) is none other than Burt Hooton.
Burt played one season for Texas and was a decade past 25 when card 56T in the 1985 Topps Traded set was issued. In his 25th year he played for the Cubs and Dodgers. His ERA was 3.07 as compared to Greinke's 2.16. Hooton went 18-9 in 33 starts while Greinke was 16-8 in the same number of starts. Burt managed 153 strikeouts to 68 walks while Zack went 242 strikeouts to 51 walks.
One you move past the win-loss record it becomes clear that Greinke was the more dominating. Probably why he won the Cy Young Award at age 25 while Burt Hooton didn't get a single vote.
1 comment:
You can't blame all those losses on him. No run support is hard to overcome. Nice card of Hoot.
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