Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal and Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Paul Skenes were announced Wednesday by MLB as the winners of the Cy Young Award, which honors the top pitchers in the American and National League in the 2025 Major League Baseball season.
Skubal, for the American League, and Skenes, for the National League, were chosen through voting by members of the Baseball Writers Association of North America (BBWAA).
Skubal repeats Cy Young
The Tigers’ stellar left-hander edged out Garrett Crochet of the Boston Red Sox in the voting.
As well as Hunter Brown of the Houston Astros to win his second Cy Young in consecutive years.
Skubal became the first American League pitcher to win this distinction in back-to-back seasons.
This since the Dominican Pedro Martinez did it in the 1999 and 2000 campaigns, pitching for the Red Sox.
The Tigers’ ace made 31 starts in the regular series last season.
In 21 of them he completed six or more innings of three runs or less.
Skubal, who limited the opposition to batting for just a .200 average, led the American League in earned run percentage (2.21).
He was second in strikeouts (241) and innings pitched (195.1), helping the Tigers return to the postseason.
Skenes makes history
Skenes, who won unanimously, edged out the Philadelphia Phillies’ Christopher Sanchez of the Dominican Republic.
In addition to Japan’s Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Most Valuable Player of the last World Series with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Thus, he won his first Cy Young of his young major league career.
Skenes, 23, who won the Rookie of the Year award in the 2024 season, joined Mexico’s Fernando Valenzuela (winner of both awards in 1981).
As well as Dwight Gooden (Rookie of the Year in 1984 and Cy Young in 1985), as the only pitchers to add these two distinctions in their first seasons at MLB’s highest level.
The Pirates star won the award based on his dominance from the mound.
Throughout the 32 games he started, he had a 1.97 ERA, the best in the Major Leagues.
Their 10-10 win-loss record was due to a lack of offensive support from the Pirates.
They scored just eleven runs in the 10 games they lost.
Skenes tallied 20 quality starts and limited other teams’ hitters to just a .199 average against his pitches in a run in which he was the All-Star Game starting pitcher for the second consecutive year.
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