Yeah, there shouldn't be any shock here. I dunno, maybe Yu Darvish had a case but...these are the two best pitchers of the year. Well done. And a year and a half ago they were playing for the same team.
Bieber I think was obvious from like the beginning of August on, as his first few starts were lights-out, he has some pretty crazy strikeout stats, and he was dominant on a team where some things were beginning to show age. Bottom line is this was a year where by the end, only one member of the 2016 rotation was left, Cookie Carrasco, and it was Bieber's job to ring in a new era of Indians starting pitching, and he absolutely brought it. I hope he keeps it up.
Bauer's was a different story. Because it took him all of 2019's second half to acclimate to pitching in Cincinnati, a lot of people underestimated him going into this year. This was also a year where Bauer was still seen as an oddity in his emphasis on unusual conditioning tactics in order to perfect his arsenal. By the end, Bauer was the chief trash-talker in the MLB, and had the stats to back it up, with 2 shutouts, 100 strikeouts, and an ERA title thanks to his 1.83 final number. He also had a 12-strikeout postseason start that's gonna be forgotten because of how quickly his Reds were in and out of the playoffs.
But yeah, the writers got it right. Well done to everybody.
Tomorrow's is going to be insanely tough to predict. In both cases, you have a candidate that I think SHOULD get the MVP, and a candidate that probably will due to bandwagoning. I have absolutely no clue what's about to happen in the AL, but I am thinking the NL isn't going to go the way I'd like.
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