
Tarik Skubal did it again. He won the American League Cy Young on Wednesday for the second straight season. He got 26 of the 30 first-place vote, with Boston's Garrett Crochet getting the other four
Skubal pitched 195⅓ innings and posted 13-6 with a 2.21 earned run average and 241 strikeouts. He led the AL in Baseball-Reference WAR (6.5) and FanGraphs WAR (6.6) while also leading qualified pitchers in ERA, strikeout rate (32.2%), lowest walk rate (4.4%), OBP allowed (.240) and OPS allowed (.559).
Here's how the vote went down:
Tarik Skubal, Detroit Tigers — 198 points
Garrett Crochet, Boston Red Sox — 132 points
Hunter Brown, Houston Astros — 80 points
Max Fried, New York Yankees — 61 points
Bryan Woo, Seattle Mariners — 26 points
Carlos Rodon, New York Yankees — 5 points
Aroldis Chapman, Boston Red Sox — 4 points
Jacob deGrom, Texas Rangers — 2 points
Trevor Rogers, Baltimore Orioles — 1 point
Drew Rasmussen, Tampa Bay Rays — 1 point
2000 — Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox
2001 — Roger Clemens, New York Yankees
2002 — Barry Zito, Oakland Athletics
2003 — Roy Halladay, Toronto Blue Jays
2004 — Johan Santana, Minnesota Twins
2005 — Bartolo Colon, Los Angeles Angels
2006 — Johan Santana, Minnesota Twins
2007 — CC Sabathia, Cleveland Indians
2008 — Cliff Lee, Cleveland Indians
2009 — Zack Grienke, Kansas City Royals
2010 — Felix Hernandez, Seattle Mariners
2011 — Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers
2012 — David Price, Tampa Bay Rays
2013 — Max Scherzer, Detroit Tigers
2014 — Corey Kluber, Cleveland Indians
2015 — Dallas Kuechel, Houston Astros
2016 — Rick Porcello, Boston Red Sox
2017 — Corey Kluber, Cleveland Indians
2018 — Blake Snell, Tampa Bay Rays
2019 — Justin Verlander, Houston Astros
2020 — Shane Bieber, Cleveland Indians
2021 — Robbie Ray, Toronto Blue Jays
2022 — Justin Verlander, Houston Astros
2023 — Gerrit Cole, New York Yankees
2024 — Tarik Skubal, Detroit Tigers
2025 — Tarik Skubal, Detroit Tigers