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Yes. 20 wins isn't some remarkable accomplishment. Because a pitcher has no control of his team scores runs behind him. We've just been preconditioned to think it's great because the media is still behind in what feats are actually great.
And nobody is saying Happ didn't deserve consideration or that you're not allowed to root for him. What people are saying is your logic behind it is incredibly flawed.
You keep citing .3 points in ERA like it's a huge discrepancy. It's not. A third of a run over the long haul is less than 10 runs over 30 starts. It's miniscule.
Kluber is more dominant than Happ. He allows close to the same amount of runs as Happ and his total value is higher than Happ. If you gave him b7 runs of support per game he'd likely have as good a record as anyone.
Not to mention, you said win loss record is a good indicator of situational pitching. I don't even know what that's supposed to mean. Than you cite Felix, who's notoriously shafted on run support. Is he and his record not indicative of his ability to situationally pitch?
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