Overview
- The BBWAA Cy Young Awards will be announced at 7 p.m. ET on MLB Network, with AL finalists Tarik Skubal, Garrett Crochet and Hunter Brown and NL finalists Paul Skenes, Cristopher Sánchez and Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
- Pre-announcement consensus points to Detroit’s Tarik Skubal repeating in the AL after a 2.21 ERA, 0.89 WHIP and 241 strikeouts, leading the AL in ERA and the majors in WHIP.
- Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes is widely projected to take the NL honor with an MLB-best 1.97 ERA, 0.95 WHIP and 216 strikeouts, combining top-tier rate stats with durability in 32 starts.
- The MVPs will be unveiled Thursday, with Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani a heavy NL favorite following a 55-homer season and a 2.87 ERA in 14 starts after returning to the mound.
- The AL MVP race is viewed as a tight contest between Aaron Judge, who hit .331 with 53 homers and a 9.7 bWAR, and Cal Raleigh, whose 60 homers set single-season records for a catcher and a switch-hitter as he drove in 125 runs.