Mariano Rivera Highlights

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"Paul, I don't mean to nitpick, but I guess I will anyway. You mentioned that you didn't know of any set-up men that finished in the top four in Cy Young voting.

• Mariano Rivera actually finished third in Cy Young voting in 1996 when he was the
  
• set-up man for John Wetteland.

Your point is clear, though. Zambrano's future isn't as a set-up man. Brett Baker, Highland, Ind.

Answer: Thanks for the relevant information about Rivera, and you're right, the point is Zambrano's future is not as a set-up man."

• from Chicago Tribune, Paul Sullivan Cubs mailbag, 5/3/10 ****
  

Hand picked groups of 28 voters have kept Mo's name as scarce as possible on Cy Young ballots ever since. If you've seen ballots from some of these years, AL and NL, who did and didn't get votes, you would ask questions. But that information isn't readily available to the general public. If the process were defensible, it would not be secret.

• Jason Whitlock discussed the matter of a small number of hand-picked selectors conferring immortality in another sports award, the NFL Hall of Fame. ed.

P.S. From Joel Sherman: "Rivera broke Goose Gossage's Yankee relief record of

• 122 strikeouts by fanning
• 130 in 107.2 innings.

Most amazingly, of the record 4,962 homers spanked in 1996, Rivera allowed just one,

• to Baltimore's Rafael Palmeiro on June 28."...

Page 208 from Joel Sherman's book, "Birth of a Dynasty," about the 1996 Yankees, published in 2006 by Rodale. Following the 1996 regular season, Rivera pitched 14.1IP in the post season.

• photo above from ESPNNewYork.com site, 5/8/10, item about all time Yankee team
  

Labels: Cy Young voting for set-up men