Posted by Brian Joseph on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 12:03 pm

Last year, Cliff Lee and Tim Lincecum took home the Cy Young in their respective leagues. Anyone make those predictions? Maybe someone nabbed the Lincecum prediction but written notarized proof is required for any claim calling for Lee to be the ‘08 Cy Young prior to April 6, 2008.

As for our ‘09 predictions, neither league had a pitcher get more than half the support of our predictors. But one came pretty darn close.

In the American League, we’re fairly confident the Cy Young winner is coming from the East. Nine out of 11 writers selected an AL East hurler. Of the seven different pitchers selected, only CC Sabathia, Roy Halladay and A.J. Burnett received multiple selections. Sabathia’s 3 was the most in the AL, ahead of Halladay and Burnett who each were selected twice. The projections have been very kind to Sabathia and the BWAA might feel like they owe him one for last year and give him a little extra support, so this selection might be our best shot at prediction glory.

In the National League, Cole Hamels grabbed five preseason nods with only Brandon Webb picking up more than one predictive plus. While Hamels’ Phillies only garnered enough support to be our Wild Card representative, almost half of us chose Young King Cole to build on his postseason dominance. Here are our predictions:

AMERICAN LEAGUE

CC Sabathia, Yankees — 3
A.J. Burnett, Yankees — 2
Roy Halladay, Blue Jays — 2
Josh Beckett, Red Sox — 1
Zack Greinke, Royals — 1
Felix Hernandez, Mariners — 1
Jon Lester, Red Sox — 1

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Cole Hamels, Phillies — 5
Brandon Webb, Diamondbacks — 2
Tim Lincecum, Giants — 1
Roy Oswalt, Astros — 1
Johan Santana, Mets — 1
Edinson Volquez, Reds — 1