CC Sabathia beats out Red Sox ace Josh Beckett for the American League Cy Young Award

CC Sabathia beats out Red Sox ace Josh Beckett for the American League Cy Young Award

On November 13, 2007 — Given their postseason match-ups of the CYA candidates, many baseball observers are surprised when CC Sabathia (19-7, 3.21) beats out Red Sox ace Josh Beckett (20-7, 3.27) for the American League Cy Young Award. In the ALCS, the 27 year-old Indian southpaw faced Beckett twice and lost each time, but voting takes place at the end of the regular season.

Sabathia is the first African-American Cy Young Award winner since Dwight Gooden in 1985 and the first African-American winner in the American League since Vida Blue in 1971.Sources:
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