Although he is the current leader in Major League wins and has not dropped out of the TOP-3 for much of the season, Mexican pitcher Julio Uries of the Los Angeles Dodgers is not in the favorites talks to win the Cy Young of the National League. Because?
Very simple …
At present the victories do not weigh much in the decision of the journalists who vote, especially when these victories come with the support of many races and the pitcher does not show consistency on the hill with quality exits and openings that reach the first inning –seventh– of the last third of the meeting.
The members of the MLB journalists’ association rely more on effectiveness, the WHIP and some in the WAR, areas in which the Mexican is behind the pitchers than if they are in talks to take the prize as best pitcher in the National League.
And more relegated is a pitcher, when arriving at the break of the All-Star Game the effectiveness is above 3.00, as was the case of Uries, and not some of the contenders who lead to the nomination.
His teammates Max Scherzer and Walker Buehler, Kevin Gausman, of the San Francisco Giants, Zack Wheeler, of the Philadelphia Phillies, Bradon Woodruff, of the Milwaukee Brewers, have been playing since July to win the award, and even Corbin Burnes, who just throwing a game with no hit or run combined with Brewers, got into the conversation.
And despite having a streak of 8-0 and effectiveness of 1.79 in his last 13 outings after losing for the last time, with a WHIP of 0.98, the Sinaloa left is not among the favorites of Major League analysts.
Because?
True, Uries arrived on July 13 – a break from the All-Star Game – as the 11th winning co-leader in the Chicago Cubs’ Kyle Hendricks.
The bad guy, whose effectiveness was at the time in 22nd place with 3.64 – reached a high of 3.98 on June 21 – was 13th in punches (119), 14th in WHIP (1.07 ), ranked 22th in batting average of rivals (230) and tenth in innings thrown (106.1).
His 11-3 record only held him below Buehler in cattle and lost percentage, 900 vs. 786.
After losing for the last time on June 21, Uries started a string of eight wins that has kept him undefeated for the past nearly 3 months, but it may be too late to be a serious contender, as the only one to do so would put in the fight is to have a cyclonic closure that lowers your ERA and WHIP, and is the only pitcher with 20 wins to make a counterweight
Their current numbers are 17-3 in cattle and lost (1st place with 850 percent), 2.98 effectiveness (10th) in 28 openings, 163.1 innings thrown (10th), 135 hits admitted (16th place among the most has received).
In addition to 54 net runs out of 60 in total, 19 home runs admitted (18th place among the most received), 33 ball-based, 175 strikeouts (12th place), 1.03 WHIP (7th place), .222 percent beating rivals (10th) and 2,460 pitches on the plate.
Its launchings give an average him of 15 by entrance and 87.85 by game, when in 28 exits it does not add a single one of eight entrances, because its maximum is of 7 in seven parties and in 15 parties it has not been able to complete six episodes.
And in terms of race support, he only has two wins in which his team has scored less than 5 races, as in 14 they have supported him with more than five. In 11 games he has received three or more races and in none of them has he completed all seven entries. It has 12 outings of at least six entries with a maximum of three races allowed.
If his workload in the final stretch of the season allows it – thinking about throwing 5 innings per game – Uries has four more exits.
And it looks very difficult to catch up with Scherzer – who is shaping up to take the prize – for example, who is the leader in effectiveness with 2.17, WHIP 0.82, the lowest batting average of rivals 175, second in strikes with 219, third in triumphs 14
His numbers should be given credit, as for the first time in six years of career at MLB he has the opportunity to remain alone as an opener in a long season of 162 games, after starting 10 of 11 in the shortened campaign of 2020, in which in the postseason it shone like relief saving the game of the title in the World-wide Series.
We’ll see if Uries arrives to get votes and take the Cy Young, an award that only Fernando Valenzuela has won as a Mexican in 1981 and only as a rookie.