Cy Young winner Porcello unfazed after Kate Upton slams results
On Wednesday, as he celebrated the biggest accomplishment of his baseball career with friends and loved ones, Boston Red Sox right-hander Rick Porcello wasn't at all bothered when Kate Upton made it clear she felt her fiancee, Justin Verlander, should've won the 2016 American League Cy Young award instead of him.
Though the baseball world couldn't stop talking about Upton's epic Twitter rant following the contentious results, Porcello was more interested in popping open some vino after becoming the first Red Sox pitcher to take home the award since the inimitable Pedro Martinez.
"I honestly don't care," Porcello told Evan Drellich of the Boston Herald. "I'm not the one that made that decision as far as who wins the Cy Young. All I know is I’ve got a lot of people around me right now that I love very much and have been instrumental in my success in getting to this point, and on top of that we’ve got some really good bottles of wine that still need to be drank. There’s not really a concern in my mind."
In a series of impassioned tweets, Upton dutifully noted that Porcello received fewer first-place votes than Verlander, the 2011 AL Cy Young award winner, and called for the two writers who omitted her fiancee from their ballots to be fired.
(Warning: Tweet contains strong language)
Hey @MLB I thought I was the only person allowed to fuck @JustinVerlander ?! What 2 writers didn't have him on their ballot?
— Kate Upton (@KateUpton) November 16, 2016
Porcello, who shared a clubhouse with Verlander in Detroit for six years before signing with Boston ahead of the 2015 campaign, was cavalier about it all.
"You know, it is what it is," he said. "The decision was made and those are decisions that we don’t get paid to make. We just get paid to throw the ball and try and win games and try and win a World Series."