Jacob Misiorowski won the National League Cy Young Award on Wednesday night after helping the Milwaukee Brewers win their first World Series title while setting a new standard for speed by a starting pitcher.
New York Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler was a unanimous choice to win the American League Cy Young Award.
This was the first full season in the big leagues for Misiorowski and Schlittler as they made their respective MLB debuts in the summer of 2025.
The award is voted on by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Toronto’s Louis Varland won the AL reliever of the year award, while San Diego’s Mason Miller was a unanimous selection for the NL version of the award. This marks the first year the BBWAA has voted on a reliever of the year.
Misiorowski becomes the fourth producer to win a Cy Young Award. The others were Rollie Fingers (1981), Pete Vuckovich (1982) and Corbin Burnes (2021). Fingers also won the MVP award in 1981, when the Brewers were still playing in the American League.
The 24-year-old righty posted a 1.80 ERA, struck out 252 batters and limited them to a .157 batting average to lead the major leagues in all three categories. The only other pitchers since 1950 to lead the majors in ERA, strikeouts and opponents’ batting average were Sandy Koufax in 1965, JR Richard in 1979 and Mike Scott in 1986.
The .157 batting average was the lowest since 1900 for any AL or NL pitcher with 100 or more hits. Misiorowski also owned a 0.80 WHIP (walks and hits allowed per innings pitched) that represented the lowest in a full regular season for pitchers with at least 150 innings since Pedro Martinez had a 0.73 for Boston in 2000.
Misiorowski went 16-5 during the regular season while throwing 1,115 pitches of 100 mph or more for the highest total since tracking began in 2008, breaking the previous mark of 673 by Jordan Hicks in 2018.
He followed that up by going 2-0 with a 0.84 ERA during Milwaukee’s 4-1 World Series triumph over the Tampa Bay Rays. Misiorowski pitched 5 2/3 innings during Milwaukee’s 4-1 Game 5 victory that clinched the Brewers’ first title in franchise history.
The other NL Cy Young Award finalists were Philadelphia’s Cristopher Sánchez and Atlanta’s Chris Sale. Sánchez was 18-7 with a 2.91 ERA and 231 strikeouts in 207 innings. Sale, who won the Cy Young Award in 2024, went 14-9 with a 2.16 ERA and 200 strikeouts in 162 2/3 innings.
Schlittler became the second Yankees pitcher in four years to win the Cy Young Award. Gerrit Cole won it with the Yankees in 2023 before Tarik Skubal won the last two AL Cy Young Awards while playing for Detroit. Cole was the first Yankee to win the award since Roger Clemens in 2001.
“Cam had as dominant a season as a starting pitcher can have from start to finish,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said in a statement. “He has shown amazing growth since we drafted him and his success is no fluke. Cam has a relentless appetite for hard work and refinement that has allowed his talents to truly flourish. This Cy Young is well deserved. Cam was the most dominant pitcher in our league and continues to grow into a core player for this franchise.”
Schlittler, 25, went 14-6 with a league-leading 1.95 ERA that ranked third in Yankees history behind Spud Chandler (1.64 in 1943) and Ron Guidry (1.74 in 1978). Schlittler’s 239 strikeouts were tied for second in the AL with Toronto’s Dylan Cease, behind Cleveland’s Gavin Williams’ 248.
This was his first full season in the big leagues since he made his MLB debut in the summer of 2025.
Schlittler received all 30 first-place votes. The runner-up was Cease, who went 11-6 with a 2.40 ERA. Cleveland’s Parker Messick finished third after going 12-9 with a 2.56 ERA and 193 strikeouts in 186 1/3 innings.
Vacation was the second-place choice of 22 out of 30 voters. Messick received seven votes for second place. The other second-place vote went to Tampa Bay’s Drew Rasmussen, who finished fourth in the voting.
It was the second runner-up for Cease, who also finished second while playing for the Chicago White Sox in 2022.
Varland won the reliever of the year award after going 5-6 with a 1.27 ERA, 35 saves and 97 strikeouts in 78 innings. Cleveland’s Cade Smith finished second in the voting and Tampa Bay’s Bryan Baker was third.
Miller was 5-2 with a 1.67 ERA, 38 saves and 129 strikeouts in 70 at-bats for San Diego. Philadelphia’s Jhoan Duran finished second in the NL reliever of the year voting and Milwaukee’s Trevor Megill was third.
Reporting by the Associated Press.
