Milwaukee\u2019s Jacob Misiorowski and the New York Yankees\u2019 Cam Schlittler were unanimous Cy Young Award winners Wednesday night after delivering dominant performances in their first full seasons in the major leagues.<\/p>\n
Misiorowski, who reached 105.5 mph with his fastball this summer, won the NL award after helping the Brewers win their first World Series title. Schlittler was the AL winner, becoming the second Yankees pitcher in four years to receive the award.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s exciting,\u201d Misiorowski said. \u201cAnd then you look one year past that and you\u2019ve got (2025 NL Cy Young Award winner) Paul Skenes also doing it in his second year. It\u2019s really cool, the youth that\u2019s coming up in the big leagues. It\u2019s going to be fun to watch for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America, which votes on the awards, said this is the third time the Cy Young winners in both leagues were unanimous.<\/p>\n
\u201cRealistically when you come into your first full season of the year, do you think you\u2019re going to do that? Maybe not,\u201d Schlittler said. \u201cBut you also have the confidence that you can do that. I definitely had conversations with guys in spring training, and that\u2019s kind of a minor goal you put for yourself. I\u2019m just glad to live up to the expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Misiorowski is 24 and Schlittler is 25, making this the fourth time that both Cy Young winners were 25 or younger, according to Sportradar. The other instances were in 1969 (Tom Seaver and McLain), 1985 (Dwight Gooden and Bret Saberhagen) and 2009 (Tim Lincecum and Zack Greinke).<\/p>\n
Misiorowski becomes the fourth Brewer to receive a Cy Young Award, and the first to win it unanimously. The Brewers\u2019 other Cy Young winners were Rollie Fingers (1981), Pete Vuckovich (1982) and Corbin Burnes (2021).<\/p>\n
Fingers also won the MVP award in 1981.<\/p>\n
Misiorowski posted a 1.80 ERA, struck out 252 batters and limited hitters to a .157 batting average to lead the major leagues in all three categories.<\/p>\n
That .157 batting average was the lowest since 1900 for any AL or NL pitcher with 100 or more innings. Misiorowski also owned an 0.80 WHIP that represented the lowest in a full regular season for pitchers with at least 150 innings since Pedro Martinez had an 0.73 for Boston in 2000.<\/p>\n
Misiorowski went 16-5 during the regular season while throwing 1,115 pitches of 100 mph or more for the highest total since tracking started in 2008, shattering the prior mark of 673 by Jordan Hicks in 2018. His 105.5-mph fastball to the Chicago Cubs\u2019 Pete Crow-Armstrong on June 26 was the fastest pitch ever thrown by a starter.<\/p>\n
He followed that up by going 2-0 with an 0.84 ERA during Milwaukee\u2019s 4-1 World Series triumph over the Tampa Bay Rays. Misiorowski threw 5 2\/3 shutout innings during Milwaukee\u2019s 4-1 Game 5 win that clinched the title.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou close your eyes at night, and I still can see myself and what I was seeing in that moment when we finally won it,\u201d Misiorowski said.<\/p>\n
Philadelphia\u2019s Cristopher S\u00e1nchez finished second and Atlanta\u2019s Chris Sale was third in the NL Cy Young Award voting.<\/p>\n
Schlittler won the AL Cy Young Award three years after the Yankees\u2019 Gerrit Cole received it. Tarik Skubal won the last two AL Cy Young Awards while pitching for Detroit.<\/p>\n
Schlittler went 14-6 with an AL-leading 1.95 ERA that ranked third in Yankees\u2019 history, behind Spud Chandler (1.64 in 1943) and Ron Guidry (1.74 in 1978). Schlittler\u2019s 239 strikeouts tied for second in the AL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee\u2019s Jacob Misiorowski and the New York Yankees\u2019 Cam Schlittler were unanimous Cy Young Award winners Wednesday night…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2323,2314,2317,2313,20455,2413,6259,9288,11714,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,59,4,2305,2303,1039],"class_list":["post-852620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-events","tag-baseball-finals","tag-baseball-games","tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","tag-cam-schlittler","tag-champion-seasons-in-major-league-baseball","tag-cy-young","tag-cy-young-award","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","tag-major-league-baseball-teams","tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-world-series"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}