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2025 Bbwaa Awards Paul Skenes Wins Cy Young Over Cristopher Msn

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Pirates’ right-hander Paul Skenes unanimously won the NL Cy Young award. Skenes, who finished third in last year’s NL Cy Young Award voting, is the second pitcher to win the award the year after he was named NL Rookie of the Year, duplicating Dwight Gooden’s... Fernando Valenzuela is the only pitcher to win both awards in the same season, in 1981 with the Dodgers. The election marks the 16th time a National League pitcher has been unanimous in the voting. Skenes joins a list featuring Sandy Koufax three times (1963, ‘65-66), Greg Maddux twice (1994-95) and once each by Sandy Alcantara (2022), Clayton Kershaw (2014), Roy Halladay (2010), Jake Peavy (2007), Randy Johnson (2002),... The American League has had a unanimous winner 12 times: Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez, Johan Santana and Justin Verlander twice each; Denny McLain, Ron Guidry, Gerrit Cole and Tarik Skubal once apiece.

Skenes becomes the seventh former NL Rookie of the Year recipient to win the Cy Young Award, joining Valenzuela, Gooden, Don Newcombe, Rick Sucliffe, three-time Cy Young Award winner Tom Seaver and two-time Cy... The only former AL Rookie of the Year Award recipient to emerge victorious in Cy Young Award voting is three-time winner Justin Verlander. This marks the third time a Pirates pitcher has won the Cy Young Award. Skenes joins Vernon Law (1960) and Doug Drabek (1990). Paul Skenes, 23-year-old ace of the Pittsburgh Pirates, has unanimously won the National League Cy Young award for 2025. Skenes on Wednesday night was announced as the winner of the balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America.

He prevailed over his fellow NL award finalists, Cristopher Sánchez of the Phillies and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers. Skenes joins Tigers ace Tarik Skubal, who won in the American League. Here's look at full voting: He's the first unanimous winner since Sandy Alcantara in 2022 and just the fifth in the past 20 years. In his second MLB season, Skenes made 32 starts, and over that span he put up an MLB-leading ERA+ of 217 and an MLB-leading 2.36 FIP with 216 strikeouts and a 5.14 K/BB ratio. Skenes also logged a quality start in 63% of his trips to the mound, and he managed that 10-10 record despite toiling for a last-place Pirates team that lost 91 games.

Skenes' WAR of 7.7 for this season ranked second only to Sánchez's 8.0 in all of baseball. Skenes' work in 2025 comes after his stellar work as a rookie in 2024, when he won Rookie of the Year and finished third in the NL Cy Young vote despite not being called... Through the first 55 starts of his MLB career, Skenes has an ERA of 1.96. Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal and Pittsburgh Pirates star Paul Skenes are this year's American League and National League Cy Young Award winners. Skubal received 26 first-place votes and 195 total points in the BBWAA voting to beat out Garrett Crochet of the Boston Red Sox and Hunter Brown of the Houston Astros.css-1582m2i{margin:0;font:inherit;font-weight:700;} to win the award. Skenes was a unanimous choice, earning 210 total points to beat out Cristopher Sánchez of the Philadelphia Phillies and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers for the award.

Skubal had high praise for his fellow Cy Young winner: The last pitcher to win back-to-back AL Cy Young awards was Pedro Martínez with the Boston Red Sox in 1999 and 2000. The last player in either league to win the award in consecutive years was Jacob deGrom in 2018-19. Updated on: November 12, 2025 / 8:07 PM EST / CBS Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes won the 2025 National League Cy Young Award on Wednesday. Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Cristopher Sánchez finished second, while Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto finished third.

Skenes received all 30 first-place votes, becoming the first NL pitcher to win the award unanimously since the Miami Marlins' Sandy Alcantara in 2022. Skenes is the first player in four decades to win Rookie of the Year one year and Cy Young the next. The 23-year-old right-hander is also the first pitcher to win the Cy Young with a record of .500 or worse. After a sensational rookie season, Skenes delivered on the hype in Year 2. He finished the 2025 season with a 10-10 record and an ERA of 1.97, 216 strikeouts, and 42 walks in 187 2/3 innings over 32 starts. Skenes' historic second season featured becoming the first Pirate in the history of the live ball era to finish the season with an ERA of under 2.

It could be the first of many for Paul Skenes. And the continuance of an autumn tradition for Tarik Skubal. Skubal became the first American League pitcher to win consecutive Cy Young Awards since Pedro Martinez in 2000 while Skenes won his first NL plaque in unanimous fashion when winners were announced Nov. 12. Skenes added a Cy Young plaque to his Rookie of the Year honor a year ago, when he finished third in Cy Young voting. Skubal, meanwhile, claimed unanimous Cy Young honors a year ago, when he won the AL Triple Crown with 18 wins, a 2.39 ERA and 228 strikeouts.

In 2025, he ceded the strikeout title to Garrett Crochet but shaved his ERA to an AL-best 2.21 and his WHIP to a majors-best 0.89 while still striking out 241. Skubal received 26 of 30 first-place votes, with four top marks going to Crochet. For Skenes, it was a clean sweep: He claimed all 30 first-place votes in the NL, the 16th unanimous NL winner and first since Miami’s Sandy Alcantara in 2022. He joins the New York Mets’ Dwight Gooden (1984-85) as the lone pitchers to win top rookie and Cy Young honors in consecutive years. Paul Skenes’ meteoric rise to the top is complete. The 23-year-old Pittsburgh Pirates ace was a unanimous choice for the National League Cy Young Award on Wednesday night, becoming the first pitcher in 40 years to win Rookie of the Year one season...

“Winning it is one thing — it being unanimous is another,” Skenes said. “It’s pretty special.” Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal captured his second straight American League Cy Young Award minutes earlier, joining elite company after another spectacular season in which he helped propel the Tigers to a playoff berth. “A lot of it is not being complacent with who I am today,” Skubal said. “I still think there’s more to tap into. I don’t think this is the finished version of myself.”

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The individual trophy cases for Paul Skenes and Tarik Skubal are growing increasingly full. The next step in the evolution of baseball's two best pitchers is winning — preferably where they are. The 23-year-old Skenes capped his blistering rise to stardom by capturing the National League Cy Young Award on Wednesday night. The Pittsburgh Pirates ace was a unanimous choice by the Baseball Writers' Association of America, the honor coming minutes after Skubal won baseball's premier pitching prize in the American League for the second straight... As gratified as they are by the recognition, both said they are eager for their respective teams to get in on the act in 2026. The 28-year-old Skubal is entering his final year of club control, and while he would like to stay in Detroit beyond next season, he's also well aware the Tigers could trade him as a...

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