13 of 37 1956: First Cy Young Award Winner: Don Newcombe Photo by The Stanley Weston Archive/Getty Images On the heels of a 27 win season that also saw him named National League MVP, Newcombe became the inaugural winner of the award that has become synonymous with pitching excellence. ...
Theo Epstein-led front office was taking on a deep rebuild, which was jump-started by a 101-loss season that year. That set up Chicago with the No. 2 pick in '13 and the club grabbed Bryant, the Golden Spikes Award winner that summer. He subsequently grew into a franchise icon, winni...
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Sandy Alcantara is pitching like a contender for the Cy Young Award. If he wins it, that would be a first for the Miami Marlins. The Marlins have had an MVP in Giancarlo Stanton, but never in the franchise's three-decade history have they had a Cy Young winner. Alcantara threwa co...
San Francisco hopes that it will get something resembling the pitcher he was in 2021 withToronto Blue Jays, when he went 13-7 with an American League-leading 2.84 ERA in 32 starts. He struck out an MLB-high 248 and walked 52 in 193.1 innings as he won the AL ...
his debut season of 2007, but he took off the next year, when he led the Majors with 265 strikeouts and a 2.62 FIP. He followed that up with another spectacular campaign in ’09, when he finished with a 2.48 ERA over 225 1/3 innings to collect his second straight Cy Young Award. ...
Dwight Gooden, two years after winning the Cy Young award, entered drug rehab after testing positive for cocaine use. And although it would not be revealed until years later, Pete Rose—who retired as the game's all-time “hit king” and moved into managerial roles—bet on games throughout...
The reigning AL Cy Young Award winner has been on the 60-day injured list with right elbow inflammation. He is not expected to make his season debut until at least June. Cole had recently progressed to throwing on flat ground after the 33-year-old right-hander was shut down in mid-March...
He's a finalist for the Cy Young Award for the second time in his career with a 2.79 ERA, which was the second-lowest in the AL (his 2.83 fielding independent pitching, or FIP, was the lowest). Gray has found something in Minnesota. In the first five seasons of his career in...
Alcántara (4-9), the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner, struck out seven and walked one in his second complete game this season and 11th overall. He had been 0-3 in four July starts with one no decision. Tampa Baystarter Zach Eflin (11-6), bidding to become the AL’...