Baseball: Big Payoff at Skydome

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Not all of baseball's big-money free agents (paging Albert Belle) bombed last season, and one who panned out in a big way has just won the Cy Young. The one bright spot of an otherwise awful season of baseball in Toronto got his reward Monday night when Roger Clemens won his fourth Cy Young award. He may never have been more deserving, when you consider that his 2.05 ERA was the lowest for an American League Cy Young winner since Ron Guidry put up a 1.74 in 1978. And in winning 21 games, Clemens alone accounted for nearly 30 percent of the Blue Jays' victories, making the Rocket well worth the $24.75 million the team paid to get him away from the Boston Red Sox.