Night three of MLB awards week was not close in either league. Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler won the AL Cy Young Award and Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski won the NL award, and both were unanimous, getting all 30 first-place votes. It is only the third time both Cy Young winners were unanimous in the same year, after 1968 and 2022. At 25 and 24, they are also the youngest pair of winners since Dwight Gooden and Bret Saberhagen in 1985.
AL: Cam Schlittler, Yankees
Schlittler went 14-6 with an AL-best 1.95 ERA over 193 2/3 innings in 33 starts, with 239 strikeouts. He allowed one earned run or fewer in 21 of those 33 starts.
Some of the history he made:
- He is the first Yankees starter with an ERA under 2.00 since Ron Guidry in 1978.
- His 1.95 ERA ranks third in Yankees history, behind Spud Chandler (1.64 in 1943) and Guidry (1.74 in 1978).
- He is the seventh Yankees pitcher to win the Cy Young and the first since Gerrit Cole in 2023.
Toronto’s Dylan Cease finished second (11-6, 2.40 ERA), and Cleveland’s Parker Messick was third (12-9, 2.56 ERA, 193 strikeouts).
Schlittler only made his big league debut in the summer of 2025. If you want to see where he pitches, here is my Yankee Stadium post.
NL: Jacob Misiorowski, Brewers
Misiorowski went 16-5 and led the majors with a 1.80 ERA, 252 strikeouts and a .157 opponents’ batting average over 174 2/3 innings in 30 starts. His WHIP was 0.802.
His season was full of records:
- He allowed 4.9 hits per nine innings, breaking the MLB record of 5.07 set by Ferdie Schupp in 1916.
- He is one of only three pitchers with at least 250 strikeouts and a WHIP of 0.80 or lower in a season, joining Pedro Martinez (2000) and Justin Verlander (2019).
- He threw 1,115 pitches at 100 mph or faster, the most since pitch tracking began in 2008.
Then he went 2-0 with a 0.84 ERA in the World Series, including 5 2/3 scoreless innings in Game 5, as Milwaukee won its first championship. The postseason didn’t count in the voting, but he is the first pitcher since Verlander in 2022 to win the World Series and the Cy Young in the same year. He is the fourth Brewer to win the award, after Rollie Fingers, Pete Vuckovich and Corbin Burnes.
Philadelphia’s Cristopher Sánchez finished second and Atlanta’s Chris Sale third.
My Take
Neither race was really in doubt, and the voters agreed. What stands out is how young both pitchers are. Misiorowski broke a record that had stood for 110 years, and Schlittler had the best ERA by a Yankees starter in almost 50 years. The Brewers have now won the NL Cy Young and NL Manager of the Year in the same week they are celebrating a title.
What’s Next
Awards week wraps up Thursday with the AL and NL MVPs. Catch up on the Rookies of the Year and the Managers of the Year.
Photos: Cam Schlittler with the Somerset Patriots, 2025, by Jeffrey Hyde, CC BY-SA 2.0; Jacob Misiorowski by Drovetochicago, CC BY-SA 4.0; both via Wikimedia Commons.
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