AL CY YUK OF THE HALF-YEAR
Jonathan Sanchez, Royals
Jonathan Sanchez
Jonathan Sanchez
#57 Starting Pitcher
Kansas City Royals
2012 STATS
GM10
W1
L4
BB40
K32
ERA6.80
Sanchez could probably win this award based on his 1.99 WHIP alone. Or for his attractive 40-to-32 walks-to-strikeouts ratio. Or for averaging under 4 2/3 innings a start. Or for finding himself on a pace to join just Steve Blass and Oliver Perez as the only starting pitchers in the division-play era to have a walk rate this ugly (7.8 per 9 IP) AND allow more than 10 hits per nine innings in the same season (minimum: 46 innings). But when you add in the body language of a guy who acts as if he'd rather be in Kampala than Kansas City, and then remember that to get this man, the Royals had to trade a fellow (Melky Cabrera) who's about to start the All-Star Game, what we have here is (what else?) a runaway winner of the Cy Yuk balloting.
Cys of relief for: Nick Blackburn, Hector Noesi, Ervin Santana, Francisco Cordero.
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