Major League Baseball and the Baseball Writers’ Association of America on Wednesday announced the Cy Young Award winners for 2025.
For the first time since 2000, there was a repeat winner in the American League, as Detroit’s Tarik Skubal took home the Cy Young Award for the second consecutive year. Pedro Martinez was the last pitcher to win the award in back-to-back years for the AL, doing so in 1999 and 2000. The most recent back-to-back winner in baseball was Jacob deGrom with the Mets in 2018 and 2019.
Skubal received 26 first-place votes and four second-place votes.
The 35-year-old Hayward, CA native was 13-6 with a 2.21 ERA in 31 starts for Detroit in 2025. He threw 195 1/3 innings, striking out 241, and had the lowest WHIP in all of baseball with a 0.89.
In the National League, after finishing third in the voting in 2024 behind Chris Sale and Zack Wheeler, right-handed pitcher and 2024 Rookie of the Year Award winner Paul Skenes was named the 2025 Cy Young recipient. He was the unanimous winner, nabbing all 30 first-place votes.
In 2025, just his second year in the major leagues, Skenes was 10-10 with a 1.97 ERA. Through 32 games started, he pitched 187 2/3 innings. He struck out 216, which was second in the National League, and had a WHIP of 0.948, best in the NL.
Philadelphia’s Cristopher Sánchez came in second place in Cy Young voting, earning all 30 votes. World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto came in third place, nabbing 16 third-place votes. San Francisco’s Logan Webb received 10 third-place votes and Milwaukee’s Freddy Peralta received four third-place votes.
In the American League, Boston’s Garrett Crochet was the runner-up to Skubal, nabbing four first-place votes and 26 second-place votes. Houston’s Hunter Brown came in third, earning 24 third-place votes. Max Fried of the Yankees also earned six third-place votes.
