The year after he finally won his first Cy Young Award, Cole has taken a step backwards in 2024, both in health (15 starts) and effectiveness (3.97 ERA, his highest since 2017). He’s still one of the last starting pitchers any team wants to face in a postseason series. He signed ...
Snell is a two-time Cy Young Award winner, but he was named an All-Star the first time he won the award in 2018 with the Rays. In 2023, he surged to Cy Young status with a remarkable second half, going 10-2 with a 1.35 ERA across 16 starts from July 1 onward. 2021: Robbie Ra...
As a junior at Washington, he won the 2006 Golden Spikes Award, annually awarded to the best amateur baseball player. His success quickly transferred over to the pros. In his first full year with the San Francisco Giants, he won the 2008 Cy Young Award. And then he won it again...
Max Scherzer played college baseball at the University of Missouri, where he was named a First-Team All-American in 2006. He was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first round of the 2006 MLB draft and made his MLB debut in 2008. Scherzer has since won three Cy Young Awards and ...
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As of 2020, the last former college baseball player who won an MVP was Kris Bryant in 2016. CY YOUNG:The 57 Cy Young Award winners who played college baseball George Sisler | Michigan | '22 MVP Award winner Before freshmen were allowed to play college baseball, first-year intramural bas...
Gaylord Perry, 84. The Baseball Hall of Famer and two-time Cy Young Award winner was a master of the spitball who wrote a book about using pitch. Dec. 1. Julia Reichert, 76. The Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker behind “American Factory” — often called the “godmother of America...
The next season, Jordan and the Bulls won the first championship in another three-peat run, and then he retired again, only to emerge for a third NBA run with the Washington Wizards in 2001. While he still made some memorable moments, much of the air was deflated from Air Jordan's ...
Maddux, who played for the Iowa Cubs in 1986, is, perhaps, the best pitcher to play professionally in Iowa. The Hall of Famer won four Cy Young Awards and 355 games over his 23-year MLB career. Maddux’s all-time talent was on full display while he played for Iowa. In 1986, ...
The speedster easily won the NL Rookie of the Year Award with 22 of 24 first-place votes (teammate Dwight Smith got the others) after hitting .293 with 24 steals and displaying strong defense in the outfield. He even had a 30-game hitting streak along the way. ...