"The steppingstone to the success I had as a professional was getting the opportunity to go to Creighton University," Bob Gibson told the Omaha World-Herald. Randy Jones | Chapman | '76 Cy Young Award winner Randy Jones' No. 10 was retired by Chapman in 1985 after an impressive ...
Note that we aren't including the 2020 season, as there was no All-Star Game that year. 2023: Blake Snell, Padres 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 ...
The year after he finallywon 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 wit...
Cy Young: Who Besides Clemens?Ponders on the candidates for the most valuable player of the National Baseball League in 2001.BarraAllenEBSCO_bspWall Street Journal Eastern Edition
Guardians general manager Mike Chernoff said he expects Bieber to be in the club's rotation to start the season, but that doesn't mean there won't be significant trade interest in the 2020 AL Cy Young winner. The Guardians are armed with a number of talented young pitchers, with the like...
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...
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. ...
We move from the likely National League Cy Young Award winner to the presumptive American League Most Valuable Player.Judge homered in his first postseason gameand has decent career numbers thanks to the work he did from 2017-19. He's added five homers since that stretch but has accomplished...
The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. Denise Levertov, first stanza of “Living” cloud wrangler, Portland, OR. August 2023 This confession needs a witness. It was only a glimpse, just the tip. You gave your blessing; I saw stars. Ethics aside, ...
By the time he put his mitt down in 2003, the star pitcher had won six Cy Young Awards. He won another, though, after coming out of retirement the following year. Signing with the Houston Astros, his hometown team, Clemens dominated the MLB for another two seasons. Not only did he bri...