Cliff Lee Cy Young! What else is new?

Cliff Lee won the Cy Young Award in the AL today, continuing a pretty uneventful award season. So far there has been no surprises unless Lincecum beating Santana blew your mind. It wasn't a close race, but Roy Halladay still got a little love with 4 first place votes to Cliff's 24. Cliff Lee had a remarkable season, and a season that should frustrate amateur fantasy managers next year when he falls back to earth. Maybe he'll win the comeback player of the year, stink next year, and the year after that win another comeback player of the year award. That'd be pretty sweet. Everyone expected Cliff Lee to win this award, and it's not that they're wrong, but a deeper look into the numbers and Halladay is remarkably close. Here is an interesting article written in the middle of September that compared Halladay to Lee. Check out that site too, Fangraphs.com it's sweet.