November 15
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
columnist Chris Carpenter
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Look at his body of work. Just start with that. What Adam Wainwright did this year, he did all year long. He was consistent through the whole season. Look at whatever number you want. Wins, ERA, strikeouts — he's at the top of them all, and he took the ball every five days. That's most important. I've been able to do that a few times in my career. But I've also been a guy who hasn't done it. That's why I know how hard it is to do. It is hard to be that guy who goes out there and takes the ball every day, strikes out 200 guys and always gives your team a chance to win. Maybe, for one year you can do it. Possibly. But it's a hard thing to do again and again. And it gets even harder when ..."
November 15
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
columnist Adam Wainwright
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What Chris Carpenter did to deserve the Cy Young Award sort of speaks for itself. He went 17-4, had that 2.24 ERA, missed six weeks of the season and still had as many wins as everybody else. The discussion really should be over there. 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, ..."