Adam Wainwright writes a guest article for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch making the case for Chris Carpenter winning the NL Cy Young award:
Chris Carpenter, besides maybe Tim Lincecum, has the best stuff of anyone in the major leagues that I have seen. He is, really, an amazing specimen of a pitcher. He has missed years of his career with shoulder and elbow issues, then he had the nerve trouble, and he pitched most of this season with an oblique strain that probably no one knows about. But there he was wearing these patches for every game and just going out there and battling through it, throwing 93 mph to 97 mph the entire game with two feet of movement on every pitch.
Carpenter pitching like that injured is indeed quite impressive. What I found more interesting is that Adam credits Chris with the author’s success:
No one has taught me more than Chris Carpenter. You know the story. After a start this year, Chris pulls me in to look at some video — old film, new film, all of it. He said my arm slot was 3 or 4 inches different, and the next day we’re playing catch and with each throw he’s telling me if it’s right. Nope. Yep. Nope. Nope. Yep. Not just anybody can do that, can see from 60 feet a difference of less than 5 inches in every throw. After that, my fastball had movement. I got my slider back. I had confidence in my pitches.
If the Cardinals do lose Dave Duncan, I think they’ve found their new pitching coach.
Update: Carpenter writes on why Wainwright should win.
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