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Since the creation of the Cy Young Award in 1956, he is the only pitcher to win an MVP award without winning a Cy Young in the same year (Don Newcombe, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, Vida Blue, Rollie Fingers, Willie Hernández, Roger Clemens, Dennis Eckersley, Justin Verlander, and Clayton Kershaw all won a Cy Young award in their MVP ...
In 1956, the inaugural year of the Cy Young Award, he became the first pitcher to win the National League MVP and the Cy Young in the same season. [2] Newcombe was an excellent hitting pitcher who compiled a career batting average of .271 with 15 home runs and was used as a pinch hitter, a rarity for pitchers. [3]
Clayton Kershaw is the youngest pitcher to win a third Cy Young Award. Clemens is also the only pitcher to win the Cy Young Award with four different teams; nobody else has done so with more than two different teams. Justin Verlander has the most seasons separating his first (2011) and second (2019) Cy Young Awards.
The left-handed Hernández had a 13-year career but is mostly known for his role as the closer on one of the most dominant teams in the past 40 years. Willie Hernández, MVP and Cy Young winner ...
The numbers: 31-6, 1.96 ERA, 280 strikeouts, 336 innings. The buzz: No pitcher since has won more games than McLain’s 31, as he took all 20 votes while also winning the AL MVP and a World Series ...
In a year shortened to 60 games by COVID-19, the relief pitcher delivered mind-boggling numbers, though the sample was only 27 innings. He recorded 53 strikeouts, posted a 0.33 ERA and allowed ...
Only two players, both in the American League, have been named Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same year: Fred Lynn in 1975 and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001. The only Rookie of the Year to win the Cy Young Award in the same year was Fernando Valenzuela in 1981. In 1947 and 1948, only one award was given to a single player.
These eight pitchers finished Nos. 3-10 on last year’s AL Cy Young ballot. Of them, only Kirby currently ranks among the top 15 AL starting pitchers in fWAR, and he’s ninth and has a 3.81 ERA.