Cam Schlittler now becomes just the third homegrown Yankee starting pitcher to win the Cy Young Award. Big kid, big stuff. The other two starters are Whitey Ford and Ron Guidry, who nearly a half-a-century ago had a season — 25-3, 1.74 earned run average, nine shutouts — that was like Aaron Judge hitting 62 home runs one time.

Schlittler’s won-loss record this past season was a modest 14-6, but compiled in a different world from Guidry’s for starting pitchers, here and everywhere else. His own ERA was 1.95. Guidry in ’78 struck out 248 hitters in 273 innings. Schlittler in 2026 struck out 239 hitters in 193 innings. Guidry’s WHIP (walks and hits per innings pitched) was 0.946. Schlittler’s was 0.919.

Of course this really is the modern baseball world, one in which relievers rule more and more. Schlittler had no shutouts and no complete games all this time after Guidry had all those shutouts and 16 complete games. No Yankee starter — homegrown or free agent Cy Young guy like Gerrit Cole — is ever going to be what Guidry was; going to be That Guy. Guidry’s numbers will give off a beam of light forever.

Schlittler, another kid out of the farm system, still felt like that kind of star and that kind of stopper for the Yankees this past season. He was the headliner and the ace of a staff that eventually had Cole back, and Max Fried, and Carlos Rodon. And so richly deserves this honor. Roger Clemens won a Cy Young when he was with the ’01 Yankees, at the age of 38. Schlittler’s year was better. And, for Yankee fans, it was one of theirs doing it.

I mentioned to David Cone, someone who knows about pitching and pitching at a high level as anyone, that Schlittler really is the most dominant homegrown Yankee starter since Guidry.

“And the most dominant homegrown in New York since Doc,” Cone said.

He is right about that. Dwight Gooden in 1985 was the right-handed version of Guidry in ’78, as exciting as Sandy Koufax that year when it looked as if he was the one who could strike out the world. He was 24-4 and had an ERA of 1.53. He had eight shutouts and pitched the same 16 complete games that Guidry had. He struck out 268 batters in 276 innings and had WHIP of 0.965. He did all that at the age of 20.

Schlittler is 25. Showed up at Yankee Stadium in the summer of ’25. He pitched that dazzling Game 3 against the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in the Wild Card series, a start to go in with the best October starts we’ve ever seen around here, eight shutout innings and 12 strikeouts with his team’s season on the line. Then he came back this year and was even better.

I asked Cone for a comp on Wednesday, someone from his time to whom he’d compare Schlittler’s style, and stuff.

“He’s a tough one to compare,” Cone said, “because of the three different fastballs he features. But I’ll tell you who comes to mind, at least for me: Prime Curt Schilling. A fastball dominant pitcher with a great postseason resume. Everybody knows why Schilling is such a lightning rod now. But the guy could pitch.”

Cone also mentioned “prime Kevin Brown,” and Clemens in his later years. But kept coming back to the three-fastball kid from Northeastern University in Boston who has become this kind of pitching star at Yankee Stadium.

“He pounds the strike zone, and pounds it, and then pounds it a little more,” Cone told me this summer.

A lot went wrong for a Yankee team that still soldiered through to 93 victories and second place in the AL East before once again not being good enough to make it out of the second round of the playoffs. Judge got hurt. It was as if Giancarlo Stanton was never around at all. Cole started the season late, part of his recovery from Tommy John surgery. Fried got hurt and so did Rodon. Cam Schlittler, though, just kept pounding the zone.

Bob Turley once won a Cy Young for the Yankees, back in 1958. But the guy known as Bulldog Bob started his career in the big leagues with the old St. Louis Browns. Sparky Lyle won the award when he was the Yankee closer. Then there was Cole two years ago, making the same 33 starts that Schlittler just did, winning one more game than Schlittler did, striking out 222 batters in 209 innings pitched.

Cole did all that at in his age 32 season. Again: Schlittler is two years younger than Guidry was when he was blowing everyone away in 1978, and then taking the ball on short rest when Bob Lemon needed to hand somebody the ball on Oct. 2 to start what will always be known as the Bucky Dent game. By the way? Guidry still had enough arm left to win 22 games for the Yankees in 1985. It just got a little lost that year because of what Gooden was doing across town.

The point really is this: Young starting pitchers like this don’t often come around, on either side of town. Of course there was once the great Tom Seaver for the Mets, who won three Cy Young Awards in all. A long time after Doc won his came Jacob deGrom, in that period when he looked like the best pitcher around, winning back-to-back Cy Youngs, something no New York pitcher, not even Seaver, had ever done.

There had been 11 Cy Young pitchers in New York baseball history before Wednesday night. Now it is an even dozen because of Schlittler. Big stuff, all ways.