I'm just glad Felix signed that contract extension. With a little bit of run support the guy could be 5-0 instead of 2-1. 15 win pitchers do not win Cy Young Awards.

@ 1, how many wins did Greinke get last year?

If a pitcher's awesome but on a lousy team that gives him no run support, he can win a Cy Young.

My favorite day is 1930 when the first baseman never touched the ball in his full 9 innings. That's just cool.

@2: Actually Tim Lincecum won it with 15 last year, so I've proven myself incorrect. Anyhow, it's probably pretty frustrating to keep chalking up those no-decisions and 2 ER losses.

Holy crap, I had forgotten that. I knew Greinke (16 W) was well below 20, but thought Lincecum was closer to it. (Nobody in either league won 20 games last year.)

With each post I become more convinced that Chicago Fan is editor Dan Savage's torturous pay back for some wrong done him by a Mariner's fan or general sports lover in the far off past. And we all have to suffer for it.

Amusing baseball trivia: The Taiwanese consider Sadaharu Oh a native son (the character for "Oh" is the most common Chinese surname, "Wang"). Oh was born in Japan but his Dad was Taiwanese, I think, or maybe he was just living in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation of the island. In any case, Oh speaks the Taiwanese dialect of Chinese.

Yeah, not only are nerds coming up w/ all those goofy new advanced stats & non-win dependent metrics for evaluating pitchers, but the whole obsession w/ pitch counts is causing managers to pull them out of games earlier, and with way more no-decisions. I could see Grienke or someone else playing for a crappy team winning the Cy w/ 10 or 12 wins. Though your point about Felix's likely frustrations are still entirely valid.

And I'm still pretty annoyed by so many folks who are ready to panic barely 1/8 of the way through the season. Yeah, it's a (very) weak hitting team, but come Friday that's gonna be a pretty amazing 1-2 punch at the front of the rotation. And count me amongst the (delirious? irrational? insane? I'll go with...) optimistic folks who think Bedard could still be an absolute force on a playoff competitor. If that guy (and Lee) were to really make good on all their potential, that could be among the great rotations in the modern era.

Look fwd to the slog tomorrow....

@8 - I agree. If Bedard can make it through a season without his arm falling off, he could be a #1 starter somewhere. Which potentially gives the M's a lethal 1-2-3 punch.

While the M's aren't a power hitting team, I don't think they are a weak hitting team. The averages will come around. Figgins is hitting .179, Lopez .238, Bradley .174 ... all well below their career averages. That will pick up, and they will start winning some 1-run games instead of losing them.

Does "coming out of the closet" mean the same thing in baseball as everywhere else? Oh, Bobby Valentine, I'm so confused.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujgb2Mj6p…

@ 11
That's Oh's single-season record. No argument about racism in baseball in Japan, or the US. Hank Greenberg was walked way more often than normal when he was getting close to the Babe's 60-homer record.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/sports…

Racism exists worldwide? Thanks for the breaking news #11

Silva had a "rough outing?" Three earned runs in seven innings qualifies as a quality start, and he only walked one batter. Talk about spin...