The fiancee of Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander used NSFW language to voice her displeasure with the American League Cy Young Award voting.
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Verlander received the most first-place votes from the BBWAA (14 of 30), but Verlander’s former teammate Rick Porcello garnered 18 second-place votes to go with eight first-place votes to help him claim the award.
Upton’s beef wasn’t just that her husband-to-be did not win, but that two writers left Verlander off their ballot.
To answer her question, the two writers were Fred Goodall of The Associated Press and Bill Chastain of MLB.com, both of whom cover the Rays.
Upton even shared an earlier graphic produced by Verlander and tweeted by his brother Ben that showed Verlander as the AL leader in games started, strikeouts, WHIP, innings pitched and batting average against. Porcello led the AL in wins and was tied with Verlander with a 5.2 wins above replacement.
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Upton does make some good points, but what’s done is done and she won’t be changing any result. Verlander will just have to be content with his 2011 Cy Young and MVP awards and the fact that he’s engaged to perhaps the most famous supermodel on the planet.
UPDATE: Verlander sent out a far more gracious tweet:
UPDATE 2: Porcello tried to brush off Upton’s diss (quote per the Boston Herald).
UPDATE 3: Chastain went through his decision process in an interview with New York Daily News Yankees beat writer Mark Feinsand. Chastain said he submitted his ballot before the final week of the season, when Verlander made two excellent starts that lowered his ERA to 3.04.
“At the time, I thought I picked the best five guys,” Chastain told Feinsand. Those five were Porcello, Britton, Kluber, White Sox ace Chris Sale and Yankees ace Masahiro Tanaka. “Maybe I should have waited until the end. When I voted, it looked pretty clear to me.”
Chastain added he was not “out to get” Verlander.
