Sighs

[Frayed Knot]

In what can only be described as a triumph for consonants, Jacob Misiorowski and Cam Schlittler, both unanimously, are your 2026 Cy Young award winners.

It's just the third time that the leagues have had simultaneous unanimous winners: 1968 with Bob Gibson and Denny McLain, and 2022 for Justin Verlander and Sandy Alcantara.  Christopher Sanchez and Chris Sale were 2nd & 3rd in the NL, while Dylan Cease and Parker Messick went 2 - 3 in the AL

 

Emm Vee Pees tonight.

[Benjamin Grimm]

This shows how disconnected I've become. Cam Schlittler won a Cy Young with the Yankees, and until yesterday his name was completely unfamiliar to me.

 

[Edgy MD]

Winning a Cy Young Award unanimously in 1968 is a heckuvan accomplishment.  For it to have hap'd in both leagues is remarkable.

There's a sound argument that Luis Tiant was better than McLain in 1968, but 31 wins is 31 wins.  It's hard for a judge to even turn his head away from that number to look at anyone else.

McLain might have even been better, relative to the field, in 1969.  His numbers were mostly down across the line, but they didn't fall off as steeply as the rest of the league did.

And after pitching 761 innings in those two seasons, he was never good again.  Washed up after his 25th birthday.

[seawolf17]

18 minutes ago, Edgy MD said:

Washed up after his 25th birthday.

Pfft. SAME, Deny. Same.

[MFS62]

1 hour ago, Benjamin Grimm said:

This shows how disconnected I've become. Cam Schlittler won a Cy Young with the Yankees, and until yesterday his name was completely unfamiliar to me.

 

One sports announcer on WABC-TV in New York always prefaces his last name with "The name you have to pronounce carefully". I guess some announcers may have missed the first l. 

Later

 

[Frayed Knot]

11 hours ago, Benjamin Grimm said:

This shows how disconnected I've become. Cam Schlittler won a Cy Young with the Yankees, and until yesterday his name was completely unfamiliar to me.

He pitched against the Mets twice this year (May and September) holding them to a total of 2 runs on 3 hits over 12.2 innings.

[Frayed Knot]

Meanwhile, the MVP awards also turn out to be unanimous choices:

- Houston's Yordan Alvarez won in the AL topping Tampa's Junior Caminero and KC's Bobby Witt. Pete Alonso finished 5th marking his highest finish ever. He received votes in four of his seven NYM seasons finishing 7th, 8th, 17th, and 11th (2019, 2022, 2023, 2025) 

- and in the NL the award went to the Mets' Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong. This contest was essentially over by around early August although Shohei Ohtani and Brice Turang were instructed to stay close to a telephone this afternoon just in case PC-A dropped dead in the hours leading up to the announcement. Top three votes also went to Elly de la Cruz (4th overall), Jacob Misiorowski (5th), Gabriel Moreno, Fernando Tatis (remember that slow start?), Matt Olson (10th) and Kyle Schwarber (11th)

[ashie62]

And 30 unanimous votes were cast for Javier Baez not to win anything

Denny McLain is still with us at age 82

I'm kind of impressed that he lost 22 games for the Washington Senators in 1971 with 9 complete games and 3 shutouts