Starting Pitcher of the Year Award on Baseball Almanac

Starting Pitcher of the Year Award

The Starting Pitcher of the Year Award is part of the This Year in Baseball Awards, established by Major League Baseball (MLB.com) in 2002 allowing "connected" fans to first select nominees for various awards then vote for those they selected in the categories. From 2002 through 2003 the award was called Pitcher of the Year, but to make additional categories for closing pitchers and setup men the starting label was added in 2004.

Those who were nominated and those who won the Starting Pitcher of the Year are presented below in yearly sections. Bold names denote the winner and all nominees appear in descending order of total percentage of votes received.

"Unless you know another guy who comes back to the majors at age 36 and says, 'If I'd asked myself what kind of year I wanted it to be, my answer wouldn't even be dose to what it's been.' It has been amazing. 'More than amazing,' Chris Hammond says." - Sportswriter David Kindred in The Sporting News (09/30/2002, '1.00 is the loveliest number')

Pitcher of the Year Award Image of an Actual This Year in Baseball Award by MLB.com via "The Fans"
2002 Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
John Smoltz	Atlanta	27%
Barry Zito	Oakland	19%
Randy Johnson	Arizona	16%
Pedro Martinez	Boston	15%
Eric Gagne	Los Angeles	13%
Derek Lowe	Boston	6%
Curt Schilling	Arizona	4%
2003 Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
Mark Prior	Chicago	22.3%
Esteban Loaiza	Chicago	12.4%
Andy Pettitte	New York	11.7%
Pedro Martinez	Boston	10.6%
Eric Gagne	Los Angeles	9.7%
Jason Schmidt	San Francisco	9.0%
Starting Pitcher of the Year Award Image of an Actual This Year in Baseball Award by MLB.com via "The Fans"
2004 Starting Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
Johan Santana	Minnesota	25.7%
Curt Schilling	Boston	24.7%
Randy Johnson	Arizona	21.2%
Roger Clemens	Houston	8.4%
Carlos Zambrano	Chicago	8.0%
2005 Starting Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
Chris Carpenter	St. Louis	22.4%
Mark Buehrle	Chicago	20.9%
Roger Clemens	Houston	10.1%
Roy Oswalt	Houston	9.0%
Dontrelle Willis	Florida	8.2%
2006 Starting Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
Chien-Ming Wang	New York	47.0%
Johan Santana	Minnesota	17.6%
Chris Carpenter	St. Louis	12.2%
Justin Verlander	Detroit	5.1%
Carlos Zambrano	Chicago	4.3%
John Smoltz	Atlanta	4.2%
Roy Oswalt	Houston	3.6%
Bronson Arroyo	Cincinnati	2.5%
Roy Halladay	Toronto	2.2%
Brandon Webb	Arizona	1.3%
2007 Starting Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
Josh Beckett	Boston	35.5%
Jake Peavy	San Diego	19.4%
Chien-Ming Wang	New York	11.8%
C.C. Sabathia	Cleveland	6.2%
Cole Hamels	Philadelphia	5.6%
Johan Santana	Minnesota	4.8%
Fausto Carmona	Cleveland	4.4%
Erik Bedard	Baltimore	4.3%
Brandon Webb	Arizona	4.2%
John Lackey	Los Angeles	3.7%
2008 Starting Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
Tim Lincecum	San Francisco	24.5%
Mike Mussina	New York	16.4%
Roy Halladay	Toronto	10.8%
Daisuke Matsuzaka	Boston	10.4%
Cliff Lee	Cleveland	9.9%
C.C. Sabathia	Milwaukee	8.4%
Johan Santana	New York	7.9%
Ryan Dempster	Chicago	5.3%
Brandon Webb	Arizona	3.8%
Rich Harden	Chicago	2.6%
2009 Starting Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
Zack Greinke	Kansas City	19.8%
Tim Lincecum	San Francisco	19.6%
C.C. Sabathia	New York	12.9%
Justin Verlander	Detroit	11.8%
Felix Hernandez	Seattle	8.8%
Adam Wainwright	St. Louis	8.6%
Roy Halladay	Toronto	6.5%
Jon Lester	Boston	5.5%
Chris Carpenter	St. Louis	4.3%
Javier Vazquez	Atlanta	2.2%
2010 Starting Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
Roy Halladay	Philadelphia	57.0%
Felix Hernandez	Seattle	30.0%
C.C. Sabathia	New York	6.0%
Adam Wainwright	St. Louis	4.0%
David Price	Tampa Bay	3.0%
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Starting Pitcher of the Year Award		% of Votes
Starting Pitcher of the Year Award

The Starting Pitcher of the Year is part of the This Year in Baseball Awards set, created in 2002 by MLB.com. Review the main page to see all the other variations.

In 2010 the award title didn't change, but they did choose to start also calling them GIBBY Awards, short for Greatness in Baseball Yearly.

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