Bartolo Colon is the 2005 American League Cy Young Award Winner

Angels pitcher Bartolo Colon has been voted the winner of the 2005 American League Cy Young Award.

Click Here to see pictures of the celebration on the streets of Altamira, D.Rep.

He received seventeen 1st place votes and eleven 2nd place votes.
A reliever from an east-coast division winner came in 2nd place and last year's CYA winner came in 3rd place.

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Colon won 21 games in 2005. He is the 2nd Angel to win the award. Dean Chance won it in 1964.

Bartolo gets a $500K bonus for winning the award - which is more than the entire $345K salary of 4th place finisher Cliff Lee of the Indians.
Two members of the Chicago Laundry Chumpions got some skimpy 5th and 6th place votes.

Congratulations Bartolo!