2026 Cy Young Awards: Yankees' Cam Schlittler and Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski Both Win Unanimously
The Baseball Writers' Association of America announced the 2026 Cy Young Award voting on November 11: New York Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler was the unanimous winner in the American League, and Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski was the unanimous winner in the National League. Each received all 30 first-place votes and 210 points. It is only the third time both leagues' Cy Young winners have been unanimous in the same year, and at 25 and 24 the pair are the youngest Cy Young-winning duo in 41 years.
Schlittler did it in his first full major league season: 14-6 in 33 starts with an AL-best 1.95 ERA and 239 strikeouts in 193⅔ innings. He is the seventh Yankees pitcher to win the award and the youngest in franchise history, and the first homegrown Yankees winner since Ron Guidry in 1978; the club's previous winner was Gerrit Cole in 2023. Toronto's Dylan Cease finished second with 110 points, ahead of Cleveland's Parker Messick in third.
Misiorowski went 16-5 with a major league-best 1.80 ERA, and also led the majors with 252 strikeouts and a .157 opponents' batting average, before helping the Brewers win the first World Series title in franchise history. He is the fourth Brewers pitcher to win the award and the first since Corbin Burnes in 2021. Philadelphia's Cristopher Sánchez finished second with 99 points, Atlanta's Chris Sale was third with 98, and the Los Angeles Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto was fourth with 63.
Both winners debuted in the summer of 2025, making 2026 their first full season. The inaugural Reliever of the Year awards were also announced the same day: Toronto's Louis Varland won in the American League, and San Diego's Mason Miller was the unanimous National League winner.
Source: Baseball Writers' Association of America
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Photo: 图：酿酒人队投手 Jacob Misiorowski 在比赛中投球。Drovetochicago 摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski pitching in a game. Photo by Drovetochicago, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
