Winning the Cy Young award is the most coveted accolade a pitcher could strive for. Clayton Kershaw, the 2014 N.L. winner, sports a 99 as you would expect from the "best." But what about the A.L. Cy Young award winner Corey Kluber? In MLB 14 The Show, Kluber's rating was a 76. His rating this year got a generous bump to a 90. While this is a great rating, you have to ask yourself if the 90 rating is high enough.

There are 10 pitchers rated higher than Corey Kluber in the game this year. Is that really fair to the supposed “best” pitcher in the American League? Sure, you can argue that last year was his break-out year and there isn’t enough history to warrant a higher rating, but should 10 pitchers be rated higher?

A 14-point jump in his overall rating might be one of the biggest ever in the game. Which is great. But when you’re the standard of pitching in the American League according to the Cy Young award voters, wouldn’t you think his overall rating would be higher than a 90? Perhaps I’m being too generous, or even too greedy. Perhaps I’m letting my fandom get in the way of thinking critically about this, but I think his rating should be between a 93-95. This way you are leaving less of a gap between Kluber and his positional counterparts.

Of course when you compare Kluber to Kershaw, Kershaw is the much better pitcher. He will probably go down as one of the best of our generation. Kluber on the other hand is not even a household name (but could become one). He needs to put together another Cy Young award winning year for that to happen.

Is Corey Kluber’s overall rating justified, or should the Cy Young winners rating be higher?