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Verlander, who won the 2011 Cy Young and MVP award, suffered his second Cy Young near miss.

Cleveland Indians right-hander Corey Kluber was third in the American League Cy Young voting, followed by Baltimore Orioles closer Zach Britton and Chicago White Sox left-hander Chris Sale. “@MLB keep up with the times and fire those writers”, she added.

The vote seems to show most voters felt Verlander was the best pitcher in the AL, while Porcello was the second-best.

Verlander actually received more first-place votes than Porcello – way more, in fact, it was 14-8 – but Porcello won because he had a huge edge in second-place votes (18-2).

Chastain admitted that he sent in his ballot with about a week remaining in the regular season – before Verlander pitched 14.2 innings of one-run ball with 20 strikeouts in his final two starts.

Upton also had a not-so-congratulatory message for Porcello: “Sorry Rick but you didn’t get any 1st place votes? you didn’t win”.

Voters list their five picks in order. A point system determines the victor, with first place votes earning seven points, second place votes earning four points, and the final three spots receiving three, two and one point, respectively.

Detroit Tigers Justin Verlander throws in a multiple exposure against the Boston Red Sox. She fired off a series of tweets criticizing the process. “It just verifies that everything that I go out there and try to achieve works”.

If Verlander would have won the 2012 award and the 2016 award, he would have three for his career.

Scherzer earned 25 first-place votes to outdistance Lester and Hendricks on a 7-4-3-2-1 point system.

And the victor of the American League CY Young is Boston Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello. The others are Gaylord Perry, Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez and Roy Halladay. Replace those over-reaching votes with something more respectable and Porcello’s wins by a less-contentious margin.

“It just verifies everything I try to achieve”, he said.

“I want to find a way to be better”, he said. To the surprise of nobody, Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals took home the National League Cy Young.