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About Felix:  I would say, "We 'wuz robbed!" but for the fact an observer MIGHT see Kluber's year as equal, at least.  "Might," mind you.
Essentially they threw an identical number of innings (call it 236) in exactly the same number of starts.  Kluber K'ed 21 more guys but walked or beaned 5 more guys.  Kluber's 18 wins were three more than the King's, but so were his 9 losses.  Kluber's FIP was .21 better than Felix's but our guy's ERA was .31 better.  Felix had the WHIP advantage by .18
Old-time voters looked at wins, first.  Newer-wave voters looked at ERA.  It looks like this group of voters factored ini FIP.
I like our guy, but it wasn't a run away, in my mind.  The other guy was pretty good, too.
Ramirez as a 1B/DH is interesting.  But his asking price has some SS positional adjustment to it.....and we don't need to (or want to) use him there. You'll overpay, in a sense.
Kemp is more of the cleanup bonking type (although it is a Pick 'Em as to who will have the better idividual season in each of the next three).  if the Dodgers are really willing to subsidize him to the tune of $47M, then he becomes about a 5X$12M player. 
Holy snot, man:  Gobble him up for the asking price, keeping Deej and Kivlehan, of course.
Get 'er done, Z!
 
moe