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Can Adam Wainwright win the triple crown?

Posted Friday, May 14, 2010, at 6:37 PM

With the Cards losing seven of their last nine games entering Friday night's game with Cincinnati, I was pleased to find a bit of positive news today.

ESPN.com's Jerry Crasnick wrote a great article on St. Louis starter Adam Wainwright, who is 5-1 on the mound this season.

I highly recommend you read the entire article since it provides some great highlights of Wainwright's career to this point, but the most interesting point for me was Crasnick's suggestion that Wainwright could win a non-traditional triple crown by claiming the Cy Young Award (given to the league's best pitcher), the Silver Slugger Award (given to the player voted to be the best hitter at his position) and the Gold Glove Award (given to the league's best defender at each position) in a single season.

Wainwright won his first Gold Glove award last season and finished third in the Cy Young voting behind San Francisco's Tim Lincecum and teammate Chris Carpenter. If memory serves correctly (and it may not), I think Wainwright actually got the most first place votes in the Cy Young balloting.

I've never considered the triple crown accomplishment for Wainwright, but this seems to be a very real possibility me. As the article points out, Wainwright is not has not been quite as good at the plate this year as in the past, but the season is still young.

What do you think? Can he do it? Can he do it this season?

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Carlos Zambrano is probably a better hitting pitcher than Wainwright, the Owens guy from the Arizona Diamondbacks is more than likely a better hitter than Wainwright as well.

-- Posted by baseballfan2010 on Wed, May 19, 2010, at 4:05 PM

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