When Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias was the one 20-game winner in MLB in 2021, he began to get a bit of recognition. Julio completed seventh within the Cy Younger balloting that yr, hit first time receiving any Cy Younger votes. His complete of 185.2 innings pitched wasn’t only a profession excessive, it was 106 innings greater than his earlier excessive, so there was in all probability a bit of skepticism that he is perhaps a one-year marvel.
That skepticism was put to mattress in 2022, when he went 17-7 with a league-leading 2.16 ERA and completed third within the NL Cy Younger voting. Having firmly established himself as a top-tier starter, Julio was additionally acknowledged in MLB Community’s “Prime 10 Proper Now” collection.
Urias is available in at quantity 10 on MLB Community’s listing, his first time ever cracking this specific listing. Curiously, there are 5 pitchers who completed behind Urias in final yr’s Cy Younger outcomes however are forward of him on this listing: Corbin Burnes (1), Carlos Rodon (3), Max Scherzer (4), Zack Wheeler (8), and Jacob deGrom (9). These 5 pitchers completed seventh, sixth, N/A, N/A, and N/A within the Nationwide League Cy Younger voting final yr.
“Finest proper now” is difficult, as a result of they’ve to make use of the final couple years a their pattern measurement. Burnes, Wheeler, and Scherzer completed 1-2-3 within the 2021 Cy Younger voting, and deGrom completed ninth. deGrom is the one pitcher on the listing to not end within the prime 5 in Cy Younger voting within the final two years.
In a approach, this listing is par for the course for Urias — he bought some recognition, however in all probability not fairly as a lot as he deserves. However that’s the character of an inventory like this. Zac Gallen and Dylan Stop and some others may make a case that they belong on the listing, too; no less than Julio is on it.
In Los Angeles, we’ll gladly take our quantity 10, even when nobody else appreciates him the best way we do.
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