Cy Young Award Updates

Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants has won his second consecutive NL Cy Young Award. Lincecum finished 15-7 with a 2.48 ERA for a San Francisco Giants team that had trouble scoring runs this year!
Lincecum finished just behind Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals!
Zack Grienke of the Kansas City Royals has won the American League Cy Young Award. Grienke finished 16-8 with a 2.16 ERA for a Horrible Kansas City Team! To think, Yankees fans wanted CC Sabathia to win this award! The Yankees were only Baseball's best team!
Grienke finished behind Felix Hernandez of the Mariners and Justin Verlander of the Tigers.

C.C Sabathia Heading To The Bronx

The Bronx is Burning again.

The New York Yankees signed the best pither in the Free Agent Market to a record breaking contract.

Sabathia and the Yankees agreed to a seven year, $161 Million dollar contract, the largest ever for a pitcher.

Sabathia makes the Yankees the owners of Baseball's Best Rotation, and they are reportedly not done yet, as the Yankees are also trying to sign Derek Lowe and A.J. Burnett.

When the Yankees play the Cleveland Indians on April 16th in the first regular season game in the new Yankee Stadium, C.C Sabathia, the 2007 AL Cy Young Award Winner, could be opposed by Cliff Lee, the 2008 AL Cy Young Award Winner.

Cliff Lee Wins AL Cy Young Award

Cliff Lee was one of the few bright spots for the Cleveland Indians this season.

Cliff Lee was recognized for it today as he won the American League Cy Young Award.

Lee went a major league-best 22-3 this season with a 2.54 ERA. He received 24 of 28 first-place votes and 132 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

Toronto ace Roy Halladay was a distant runner-up with four first-place votes and 71 points. Record-setting closer Francisco Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Angels finished third with 32 points.

Congrats to Cliff Lee on winning the AL Cy Young award.

Barry Bonds Indicted on Perjury, Obstruction Charges

The Major League Home Run King Was Charged with lying to a federal grand jury.
Barry Bonds was indicted Thursday for perjury and obstruction of justice, charged with lying when he told a federal grand jury that he did not knowingly use performance-enhancing drugs.

The indictment unsealed Thursday against baseball's home-run king culminated a four-year investigation into steroid use by elite athletes.

If convicted on all five counts, baseball's home run king could go to prison for up to 30 years.

In August, the 43-year-old Bonds passed Hank Aaron to become baseball's career home run leader. Late in the season, the San Francisco Giants told the seven-time National League MVP they didn't want him back next year.

Bonds finished the year with 762 homers, seven more than Aaron, and is currently a free agent. In 2001, he set the season record with 73 home runs.

Bonds became the highest-profile figure caught up in the government investigation launched in 2002 with the raid of the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO), the Burlingame-based supplements lab at the center of a steroids distribution ring.

In Other Baseball News...
Congratulations to Jake Peavy for winning the National League Cy Young Award. Congratulations to C.C. Sabathia for winning the American League Cy Young Award.

Johan Santana Strikes Out 17 Rangers

Johan Santana won the AL Cy Young Award in 2004, and may be well on his way to winning it again.

Santana set a new Twins Record yesterday by striking out 17 Texas Rangers as Santana got the win in a 1-0 victory.

Santana's 17 strikeouts were the most in the majors since Ben Sheets fanned 18 in Milwaukee's 4-1 win over Atlanta on May 16, 2004, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. He broke the Minnesota record of 15, accomplished four times - the last by Bert Blyleven on Aug. 1, 1986, against Oakland.

Santana retired the first 12 batters he faced before Sammy Sosa led off the fifth with a single to left-center. Sosa also doubled with two outs in the seventh for Texas' only other hit against the left-hander.

Joe Nathan pitched a scoreless ninth for his 27th save in 29 chances. He struck out Brad Wilkerson and Michael Young with a runner on second to finish off the two-hitter.