For the second straight season, New York Mets right-hander Jacob deGrom has won the National League Cy Young Award, receiving 29 of 30 first-place votes in a landslide victory.

Hyun-Jin Ryu of the Los Angeles Dodgers (14-5, 2.32 ERA, 163 strikeouts, 24 walks, 1.01 WHIP) and Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals (11-7, 2.92 ERA, 243 strikeouts, 33 walks, 1.03 WHIP) tied for second place with 72 voting points each, and Washington’s Stephen Strasburg and St. Louis’ Jack Flaherty tied for third with 69 voting points apiece (complete voting results).

The Florida native pitched to an 11-8 record and 2.43 ERA with a league-leading 255 strikeouts, 44 walks, and a 167 ERA+ over 32 starts for the Mets (204 innings) in 2019.

DeGrom, 31, finished the season with his name littered among the upper crust of a generous handful of major statistical categories:

2.43 ERA, second; 2.67 FIP, second; 255 strikeouts, first; 0.97 WHIP, tied for first; 0.84 home runs allowed per nine, tied for second; 81.8% left-on-base rate, fourth; 15.4% whiff rate, third; 29.9% hard-hit rate, second-least; 21.9% soft-hit rate, second-most; 3.46 win probability added, second; 7.0 wins above replacement (FanGraphs), first.

DeGrom is now one of two Mets pitchers to win multiple Cy Young Awards (Tom Seaver; 1969, 1973, 1975) and one of 11 pitchers league-wide to win the honor in consecutive years:

Sandy Koufax, 1965 and 1966; Denny McLain, 1968 and 1969; Jim Palmer, 1975 and 1976; Greg Maddux, 1992 through 1995; Pedro Martinez, 1999 and 2000; Randy Johnson, 1999 through 2002; Roger Clemens, 1986 and 1987, 1997 and 1998; Tim Lincecum, 2008 and 2009; Clayton Kershaw, 2013 and 2014; Max Scherzer, 2016 and 2017.

DeGrom also joins Seaver as the only players in MLB history to win Rookie of the Year honors and multiple Cy Young Awards.

“It’s every starting pitcher’s goal to win one [Cy Young Award]. You know, to win two back-to-back, I think this one’s gonna take some time to set in,” deGrom told the media after securing the hardware. “Never really could have imagined it. Like I said, it’s a goal and a dream and for it to actually happen it’s pretty unreal.”

Houston Astros right-hander Justin Verlander (17 first-place votes; 171 voting points) narrowly beat out teammate Gerrit Cole (13 first-place votes; 159 voting points; 20-5, 2.50 ERA, 326 strikeouts, 48 walks, 0.90 WHIP) for the American League honors with Charlie Morton of the Tampa Bay Rays (16-6, 3.05 ERA, 240 strikeouts, 57 walks, 1.08 WHIP) coming in third. (voting results).

Verlander, 36, earned his second Cy Young Award following a 21-6 season for the AL champion Astros, pitching to a 2.58 ERA and 3.27 FIP with 300 strikeouts, 42 walks, 6.4 fWAR, and an MLB-leading 0.80 WHIP over an also-league-leading 34 starts and 223 innings pitched.