Why Not Randy For Cy?

Last night, the bottom feeding Arizona Diamondback's best pitcher, Randy Johnson, won his second consecutive outing and surpassed the last great pitcher to pitch for a crap team, Steve Carlton, in all time strikeouts, with 4137.

In and of itself, this isn't sufficient merit for consideration for the Cy Young, but if you look at all the key stats in the NL outside of wins, something that Randy Johnson can do little of without any run support, you see that Randy Johnson is either leading or within the top two in every category.

And let's not forget: Randy Johnson pitched a perfect game this season.

There's nobody out there with huge victory numbers this season.

IP

1. R Johnson ARI 223.2
2. L Hernandez MON 223.0
3. R Oswalt HOU 210.1

ERA

1. R Johnson ARI 2.74
2. C Zambrano CHC 2.80
3. B Sheets MIL 2.83


Batting Average Against

1. R Johnson ARI .190
2. J Schmidt SF .202
3. O Perez PIT .209

K/IP

1. O Perez PIT 11.08
2. R Johnson ARI 10.78
3. J Schmidt SF 10.18

K/BB

1. R Johnson ARI 6.12
2. D Wells SD 4.50
3. G Maddux CHC 4.72


STRIKOUTS

1. R Johnson ARI 268
2. B Sheets MIL 228
3. J Schmidt SF 224