Players select Dodgers’ Zack Greinke as NL’s best pitcher for 2015
Dodgers starting pitcher Zack Greinke looks out upon the field from the mound during a postseason practice at Dodger Stadium.
The momentum for the 2015 National League Cy Young Award seemed to shift away from Dodgers right-hander Zack Greinke and to Jake Arrieta as the Chicago Cubs’ big right-hander finished the season with a flurry.
But it figures to be a close vote and it might be best not to figure Greinke is out of it.
On Monday night, Greinke was the Players Choice Awards winner for top pitcher in the NL. Clayton Kershaw won the award last season. Greinke opted out of his contract last week and received a $15.8 million qualifying offer from the Dodgers. He is expected to decline it and become a free agent (corrected).
Kershaw won the NL Cy Young Award last season.
Greinke had a 19-3 record and a 1.66 earned-run average, the lowest in the major leagues in 20 years, and a 0.84 WHIP. Arrieta was 22-6 with a 1.77 ERA and a 0.87 WHIP.
MLB players have been giving out regular-season awards since 1992.
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