Officially, seven players received votes to be named the 2026 National League Cy Young Award winner.

One of those was the Arizona Diamondbacks' Eduardo Rodriguez. Sure, he only received a pair of fifth-place votes, but it's incredible to even see him in that position to begin with.

Rodriguez may have finished last in the polls with two points, but him even receiving votes put him in the same conversation as Mason Miller, Jesus Luzardo, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Chris Sale, Cristopher Sanchez, and Jacob Misiorowski.

The D-backs failed to make the playoffs in '26, though that doesn't matter in terms of Cy Young voting as it's a regular season award.

In the end, Misiorowski was the NL's unanimous winner, receiving all 30 first-place votes.

When it comes to the Baseball Writers' Association of America, all of the voting is public information. 

The BBWAA shares the list of voters and who each individual voted for, so it was easy to find out that Dejan Kovacevic of DK Pittsburgh Sports and The Athletic's Tyler Kepner threw a vote his way.

It's quite interesting to see that Miller, a closer, received four fifth-place votes, double the number of Rodriguez.

Miller went on to win the first-ever NL Reliever of the Year award, but he was so dominant this season he had four points in the Cy Young voting as well.

To say that this team's rotation was all over the place this season would be an understatement. Injuries plagued the rotation, and it's not like Corbin Burnes was his usual self when he returned in September.

Aging veterans didn't help the team as they expected, but it was Rodriguez who became the hero.

Rodriguez, 33, finished the year 16-7 with a 2.89 ERA and 1.24 WHIP. His ERA was 10th in all of baseball, and he was tied for third with his 16 wins. 

The Venezuelan southpaw was a 4.7 WAR player this season, a number that eclipsed his last four seasons combined.

Arizona was able to get 32 starts out of Rodriguez, a number that fell two shy of his career high, which was set in 2019 when he threw 203.1 innings.

Rodriguez is far from the youngest player in the world, but he's under contract through at least the 2027 season. He could stick around in 2028 as well, though that's the year when a conditional mutual option comes into play.