NL Cy Young Award Winners
All-time Cy Young Award winners Snell, 30, received28 first-place votes and two second-place votesin the balloting of select members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America to claim a landslide victory. San Francisco’s Logan Webb was second, and Arizona’s Zac Gallen finished third....
But we can say that the closest award in total point margin came just two years ago, when Corbin Burnes topped Wheeler by a mere 10 points, in what was an extremely modern Cy discussion, as Burnes dominated in every advanced and rate metric, yet threw 46 1/3 fewer innings. Perhaps th...
Padres’ left-hander Blake Snell, a previous winner in the American League with the Rays in 2018, won the National League Cy Young Award. He joined the company of Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Max Scherzer, Gaylord Perry and Roy Halladay as Cy Young Award winners in both l...
with the Braves in 2000, Chris Carpenter and Adam Wainwright with the St. Louis Cardinals in 2009 and Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee with the Philadelphia Phillies in 2011. Like Greinke and Kershaw, Glavine and Maddux in 2000 and Halladay and Lee in 2011 were former Cy Young Award winners. ...
The 35-year-old McCutchen is among several Roberto Clemente Award winners who will wear No. 21 — the number worn by the late Pirates Hall of Famer — on the backs of their hats and helmets for the rest of their careers. MLB said it was a “special tribute to his e...
He would follow top NL Cy Young Award contender Trevor Bauer and right-hander Luis Castillo, all three of them All-Stars, in a strong rotation that has Cincinnati optimistic about October. “We’re going to be as much of a threat as anyone,” slugger Joey Votto said. ...
NL Cy Young Award Winners-Records
The only other time a pitcher won the Cy Young Award without the most first-place votes was in 1998 when the Atlanta Braves’ Tom Glavine had 11 to San Diego Padres reliever Trevor Hoffman’s 13 but out-pointed him overall, 98-88. ...
Kershaw was the fifth NL pitcher to win the award in consecutive seasons. Maddux and Johnson each won four years in a row. The other back-to-back winners were Koufax and Tim Lincecum. Successive victories have occurred five times in the AL: twice by Clemens and once each by McLain, Mart...