http://www.azcentral.com/sports/columns/articles/1122onbaseball1122.html Joseph A. Reaves The Arizona Republic Nov. 22, 2006 12:00 AM Ask most folks around baseball and they will tell you Chase Field is a hitters' ballpark. Left-handed hitters, especially, love the place. But ask the newest National League Cy Young Award winner about that and he just chuckles. "Yeah, it can be a hitters' park, but if you keep the ball down you're not going to get hurt," Diamondbacks right-hander Brandon Webb says. "That goes for Coors (Field in Denver), for Philadelphia, for here, anywhere. Keep the ball down." Webb kept the ball down enough last season to win his first Cy Young Award - the fifth for a Diamondbacks pitcher in just nine years of franchise history. Granted the other four went to future Hall of Famer Randy Johnson. But it's a credit to former General Manager Joe Garagiola Jr. and former owner Jerry Colangelo that Johnson was around long enough to win four in a row in Arizona. The first Cy Young Award went to Don Newcombe of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1956. That year, and for a decade after, the Cy Young went to the best pitcher in all of baseball. Since 1967, the top pitcher in each league has been honored, which means 91 Cy Youngs have been handed out in 51 years. The Diamondbacks weren't around for 42 of those seasons, yet they have more Cy Young Awards than all but five franchises. "With five out of nine, that's a pretty good ratio there," Webb said last week. "Hopefully, that will draw some pitchers in and make them want to come here." That's exactly what Diamondbacks Manager Partner Jeff Moorad and General Manager Josh Byrnes are hoping, too. "When I called Josh to tell him about Brandon (winning the award), he was five minutes away from meeting with the agent for a free-agent pitcher and he said: 'Wups, I just learned how to start my discussion,' " Moorad said last week. "That's not a bad sell. That's not a bad sell at all." No, it's not. Come to Arizona and win a Cy Young. Be part of the greatest pitching franchise in baseball history. Well, not yet. But Johnson and Webb have laid a pretty solid foundation. Think of franchises with reputations for producing great pitchers. For many, Atlanta jumps to mind. Greg Maddux, John Smoltz, Tom Glavine. Braves pitchers have won seven awards: Maddux with three, Glavine two, Smoltz one and Warren Spahn one with the Milwaukee Braves. But since Arizona came into the league, the Braves have just one Cy Young Award: Glavine in '98. The Diamondbacks have five times that many. Think of great pitching and the Dodgers come to mind. Well, maybe not so much lately, but there was a time when Sandy Koufax won three Cy Youngs in four seasons. And there was Don Drysdale, Orel Hershiser, Fernando Valenzuela, Mike Marshall - oh, and Eric Gagne. Throw in Newcombe and the Dodgers have nine. But that's nine out of 91. The Diamondbacks have five in nine chances. Hey, what about the Yankees? Bob Turley, Whitey Ford, Ron Guidry, Sparky Lyle. The franchise that bills itself as the greatest in all of sports has produced just five Cy Young winners and one of those was Roger Clemens, who left New York after five seasons. Clemens won three Cy Youngs with Boston, two in Toronto and an unprecedented seventh in Houston two years ago. The Yankees pride themselves on tradition. And rightly so. Babe Ruth. Lou Gehrig. Joe DiMaggio. Mickey Mantle. Roger Maris. Elston Howard. Don Mattingly. The list goes on and on. But it's almost always hitters, rarely pitchers. Let the Yankees laud their tradition. They deserve it. And it's great for baseball. But there's new tradition building in the desert. Arizona is a great place to live and the best place of late to win a Cy Young. Nine years is way too short to rival the kind of tradition the Yankees, Dodgers, Braves and a lot of other clubs have. But the Diamondbacks have something special going. Chase Field may be a hitters' ballpark, but take it from a Cy Young winner, if you keep the ball down, it can be a pitcher's paradise. == 寒冷的冬天 无情的市场 温暖的文章 :) -- mittermeyer, PTT Diamondbacks BM, B/T:R/R, 5'11", 165lbs 球探报告：虽然长相曾被指出与某歌星相似，但在未找到合适发型的情况下，在20至80分 中只能拿45分至50分间。个性算是开朗，然而因缺乏自信而少能展现个人特质，不易受异 性注意。在言语的表达上亦有问题，有时会因为脑残而说出不得体的话，导致产生失败的 第一印象。善良的本性应该会让他成为Career "Good-man" Leaguer。 --

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