Major League Baseball announces 2025 Cy Young Award winners
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The MLB Network announced the 2025 American League and National League Cy Young Award winners on Wednesday.
For a second straight season, Tarik Skubal is the American League Cy Young award winner.
He beat out Garrett Crochet and Hunter Brown, the other two finalists. Skubal received 26 of 30 first-place votes.
The other four voters had him second behind Crochet, and those pitchers were 1-2 in some order on every ballot.
Skubal is the first pitcher to win back-to-back Cy Youngs since Jacob deGrom took the NL honors in 2018 and '19. He's the 23rd pitcher in MLB history to win the award twice.
Skubal cemented himself as one of the two best pitchers on the planet by turning in a 2.21 earned run average across 31 starts.
He recorded 241 strikeouts, 13 more than he did during last year's award-winning season, and won a second straight ERA title.
Skubal is headed into his final season of arbitration control. With no progress on a long-term extension, there'll surely be teams trying to pry him out of Detroit.
Tarik Skubal is surrounded by family and friends as he is announced as the 2025 American League Cy Young Award winner! 🥹
Paul Skenes National League Cy Young Award Winner
Paul Skenes has won his first career Cy Young award.
The Pirates righty is named the National League's best pitcher one year after winning Rookie of the Year and finishing third in Cy Young balloting.
He beat out Cristopher Sanchez and Yoshinobu Yamamoto for the honors. The vote was unanimous, as he received all 30 first-place votes.
Sánchez was second on every ballot, so it wasn't until third that voters began to diverge.
Skenes is the third pitcher in franchise history to win the Cy Young, joining Vernon Law (1960) and Doug Drabek (1990).
He turned in an MLB-best 1.97 earned run average over his first full season in the big leagues.
He'd posted a 1.96 mark across 23 starts as a rookie. He's the only starting pitcher in the majors with a sub-2.00 ERA over the past two seasons.
Paul Skenes winning Rookie of the Year: 😐
Paul Skenes winning Cy Young: 🙂
Paul Skenes winning Cy Young: 🙂
Skenes ranked fourth in the NL with 187 2/3 innings pitched and tied Jesús Luzardo for second with 216 strikeouts.
Only Logan Webb recorded more strikeouts. Skenes ranked fifth in strikeout rate (minimum 100 innings) and third behind Webb and Sánchez with 20 quality starts.
The 2023 first overall pick is widely considered one of the two best pitchers in the sport.
There's a fair debate between him and two-time AL Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal, but they're almost certainly 1-2 in some order.
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