2010 Cy Young awards winners

Posted on 19 November 2010 by Brett Kettyle.

The votes are in and Roy Halladay and Felix Hernandez are the winners of the 2010 Cy Young Awards.

Halladay, who finished his first season in Philadelphia, was unanimously selected in the National League, receiving all 32 first place votes.

The Cy Young is the second of Halladay’s career, and he is now one of fifteen pitchers to win multiple Cy Young awards and one of five pitchers to win one in both the NL and AL.

This past season, Halladay threw a perfect game (as well as a no-hitter in the playoffs) and led the Phillies to the NL East Crown. He led the National League in Wins (21), Complete Games (9), Shutouts (4), Innings Pitched (250.2) and K/BB Ratio (7.30).

Halladay was also the among the league leaders with a 2.44 ERA and 219 strikeouts.

Adam Wainwright and Ubaldo Jiminez finished second and third in the NL while Tim Hudson, Josh Johnson, Roy Oswalt, Brian Wilson, Heath Bell, Mat Latos, Brett Myers, Tim Lincecum, Bronson Arroyo and Matt Cain also received votes.

With just a 13-12 record, it wouldn’t have surprised most people if voters overlooked Seattle pitcher Felix Hernandez in favor of another teams ace, but King Felix got 21 (out of 28) first place votes to win the AL Cy Young.

Hernandez led the American League in ERA (2.27) and innings pitched (249.2) and struck out 232 batters on the season.

Hernandez is the first pitcher to win a Cy Young Award with fewer than 16 wins, but the blame for his mediocre record can be placed on the Mariners terrible offense. On the season, the barely scored three runs a game when Felix started.

David Price, who received four first place votes finished second and CC Sabathia finished third. Jon Lester, Jared Weaver, Clay Buchholz, Cliff Lee, Rafael Soriano, Trevor Cahill, Joakim Soria, Francisco Liriano and Justin Verlander also received votes.

Both Roy Halladay and Felix Hernandez deserved to win the award in their respective leagues, and will look to continue their success into 2011.

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Along with contributing to Sports Climax, Brett Kettyle is the Atlanta Braves Community Leader on Bleacher Report and maintains a Braves column for MTR Media. Follow Brett on Twitter.