A. Dickey, last year's NL Cy Young Award winner, to open the season and then capped their first road trip by hammering reigning AL Cy Young winner David Price and hitting five homers to thrash the Rays 13-0.
Detroit pitcher Justin Verlander won the Most Valuable Player award on Monday, adding it to his Cy Young Award last week.
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The primary goal was to keep fans engaged and coming to the ballpark despite a bad season on the diamond by having fans submit questions via Twitter to television broadcasters, andplayers like Cy Young candidate Clayton Kershaw (who is trying to build an orphanage in Zambia) and MVP candidate Matt Kemp be guest tweeters for an entire day.
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All three would go on to win the Cy Young Award in their decorated careers.
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He had led the American League in wins in 1996 with 21 and finished second in the Cy Young voting to Pat Hentgen.
It also raises serious questions about conflicts of interest, as judges have approved cy pres donations to charities they may have connections to, and plaintiff lawyers may have an incentive to steer money to groups that can deliver them favors, such as prestigious universities they just might want their children to attend.
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In 2012 the Giants lost a superstar outfielder to performance-enhancing drug violations (Melky Cabrera), lost a star relief pitcher (Brian Wilson) to season-ending surgery, and lost their Cy Young award-winning starting pitcher (Lincecum), to what seems like the pressures born of a gargantuan contract.
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Thorn confidently proclaimed that arguments and debates comparing Clemens to Walter Johnson, Cy Young and Lefty Grove was not necessary.
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Other pitchers to win MVP and Cy Young in the same year were Newcombe (1956), Los Angeles' Sandy Koufax (1963), St.
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The team said the two-time Cy Young Award winner was to be hospitalized overnight.
The Ninth Circuit has been taking a more vigilant stance toward class actions in recent years, especially where lawyers try to steer money toward unrelated charities in so-called cy pres distributions or where there are questions about whether plaintiff lawyers colluded with the defense to negotiate a fee at the expense of their clients.
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CNN's CY Xu and Dayu Zhang contributed to this report.
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Cy pres is an acceptable alternative to paying money to people actually involved in the case, the court said, but the amount given to unrelated charities should serve to reduce the pot used to calculate fees.
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Unimpressed with the star pitcher's angry, stammering denials of steroid use, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Wednesday formally asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the seven-time Cy Young Award winner for allegations of perjury.
The seven-time Cy Young Award winner is scheduled to defend his innocence in July after being indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts of making false statements, two counts of perjury and one count of obstruction of Congress.
Elsewhere, options players continue to favor calls over puts on downtrodden CY.
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Their argument, the court said, conflated two basic legal principles, first that the court must approve a settlement for fairness, and second that cy pres awards, must be given to groups that offer a reasonable substitute for the absent plaintiffs.
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Last year, a Washington jury found the seven-time Cy Young Award winner not guilty of lying to Congress about steroids and human growth hormone.
On a trip to Rome, he ran into the sons of Cy Twombly and Paul Klee.
James Googled Cy Leeser, read trade periodicals, and talked to friends in the hedge fund industry who worked in Greenwich, Connecticut near LeeWell Capital.
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The only other team to lose the first five starts made by a reigning Cy Young winner was the 1989 Minnesota Twins.
"Today's indictment brings us one step closer to bringing an international art caper to a close, " New York County District Attorney Cy Vance said in the statement.
During the past 10 days, speculators on the International Securities Exchange (ISE), Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and NASDAQ OMX PHLX (PHLX) have bought to open 1.84 calls for every put on CY.
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Dealt to Toronto after going 20-3 and winning the NL Cy Young Award, Dickey (2-4) already has lost more games this year than in all of 2012.
Expos fans would have preferred the team invest some of that profit toward a long-term deal for Cy Young award winner Pedro Martinez, instead of trading him to the Boston Red Sox before the 1998 season started.
They traded him to Toronto in November, and the Blue Jays dealt him to the Mets in December as part of a package for NL Cy Young Award winner R.
Before the steroid issue, Clemens was a first-ballot lock with a record of 354-184, an unprecedented seven Cy Young Awards and 4, 672 strikeouts, second all-time to Nolan Ryan.
Andrews repaired the joint, and a year later Clemens led the Red Sox to the World Series, and earned both the American League's Cy Young and MVP awards.
Now Clemens' record seven Cy Young Awards, his 4, 672 career strikeouts (second only to Nolan Ryan) and his 354 wins (ninth best of all time) could suffer the same tainted image.
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