What do you think of the results -- Internet Baseball Awards, AL Cy Youngs?

The Internet Baseball Awards, administered by the good folks at Baseball Prospectus (http://www.baseballprospectus.com),/ were announced today for the American League honorees (NL tomorrow).

The IBAs are open to anyone on the Web (registered with BP), so the electorate is much larger than what the BBWAA uses for their awards. Much more democratic, much more fun, and the self-selected population tends to be much more driven by statistical performance than mere narrative.

Here, the 2008 AL Cy Young Award top results:

rank, ace (team) -- ballots -- points

1. Cliff Lee (Cleveland) -- 1478 (of 1525) -- 13750

2. Roy Halladay (Toronto) -- 1387 -- 10283

3. Jon Lester (Boston) -- 827 -- 3753

4. Francisco Rodriguez (Los Angeles) -- 425 -- 1698

5. Daisuke Matsuzaka (Boston) -- 410 -- 1497

Lee was the superstar pitcher for the junior circuit all season, and this voting result comes as no surprise, though Halladay was a lot closer in second place than I had expected. The rest of the candidates receiving votes tailed off very quickly after that.

But -- LOOK HERE, powers that be, this is a QUESTION -- what is your (the reader) opinion of these results? How do you think it will compare with the BBWAA AL CYA results (announced 13-November)?

My ballot:

1. Lee, 2. Matsuzaka, 3. Halladay, 4. Soria, 5. Mussina

I think, with five rankings, there's always room for at least one relief pitcher (if there is one worthy of consideration), and I preferred Soria to Rodriguez. Lester would have been my sixth vote.