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Article: Martinez Unanimous Cy Young
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 17, 1999
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Pedro Martinez pitched another shutout, winning the American
League Cy Young Award in a unanimous vote. Now the question is
whether he'll be elected most valuable player, too.
"It would mean a lot, probably more than this Cy Young alone,"
Martinez said today after the Cy Young voting was announced. "I've
already achieved that, so the MVP would be something different,
especially to a pitcher."
Martinez became only the fourth pitcher to win the AL Cy Young
Award unanimously, and joined Gaylord Perry and Randy Johnson, who
won his first NL Cy Young on Monday, as the only pitchers to win the
honor in each league.
Martinez, 23-4 with a 2.07 earned run average for the Boston Red
Sox, received all ...