Jayson Stark wrote his end of season awards column this weekend and obviously chose Roy Halladay as his NL Cy Young. But what blew me away is when Stark started to rattle off the categories that Halladay led the league in. It's ridiculous.
↵He led the league in wins, innings pitched, shutouts, complete games, strikeout/walk ratio, fewest walks per nine innings and the holy trinity of sabermetric stats: VORP, Wins Above Replacement and Win Probability Added. He piled up 7.3 strikeouts for every walk, the third-best strikeout/walk ratio since 1900 among pitchers who worked 250 innings. And he did all this while facing 24 more hitters than any other pitcher in the league.↵