10 tidbits you may not know about Cy Young winner Rick Porcello
1. Rick Porcello’s birth name is Frederick Alfred Porcello III.
2. Porcello is the maternal grandson of Sam Dente who played for the Cleveland Indians in the 1954 World Series.
3. Porcello graduated high school from Seton Hall Prep in New Jersey with a GPA of 3.94
4. Older brother Zack Porcello is the pitching coach at Seton Hall University where younger Jake Porcello is a pitcher.
5. Porcello enjoys fly fishing. “It keeps you focused and uses your senses,” Porcello told New Jersey Baseball Magazine. Somewhere up in baseball heaven Red Sox great Ted Willams is nodding and smiling.
6. Rick Porcello is the first Red Sox pitcher to win the Cy Young since Pedro Martinez in 2000. Other Red Sox winners are Jim Lonborg (67), and Roger Clemens (86/87/91).
7. Porcello won the Cy Young Award even though he lost in first place votes to Detroit Tiger’s ace Justin Verlander.. Major League Baseball uses a weighted system which also counts the number of 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th place votes. The pitcher with the highest total votes wins. Porcello beat Verlander by 5 total votes 137-132. Porcello had 8 first place votes to Verlander’s 14.
8. Verlander’s fiance, super model Kate Upton took to social media to voice her outrage. Her tweet reads:
“Hey MLB, I thought I was the only person allowed to f-k @Justin Verlander.”
(Now that’s funny)
9. In 2015 Rick Porcello signed a contract with the Red Sox worth 82.5 million dollars, which breaks down to roughly 20 million a year.
10. Rick Porcello is single.
