"Getting 26 out of 30 first-place votes, Skubal, with an 18-5 win-loss record, ended his season with a 2.21 ERA and a 0.89 WHIP across 195.1 innings. Boston Red Sox ace Garret Crochet came in second with the direct opposite of four first-place votes and 26 second-place votes, leaving Houston Astros' Hunter Brown with a steady third-place finish with 24 third-place votes."
""Alot for me, mentally, it's just trusting the preparation that I did the last four days," Skubal said, "and when you get the ball and it's your time to go, just go out their and compete, and enoy it...by the time the fifth day comes around, just go out there, have fun and enjoy it and embrace kind of anything that happens during the game.""
Tarik Skubal captured a second straight American League Cy Young Award, becoming the first AL back-to-back winner since Pedro Martinez (1999–2000) and the first pitcher overall to repeat since Jacob deGrom (2018–19). Skubal received 26 of 30 first-place votes and finished 18–5 with a 2.21 ERA and 0.89 WHIP across 195.1 innings. He deployed a six-pitch mix with a changeup used 31.4% of the time to succeed against both left- and right-handed hitters. Paul Skenes was the unanimous National League Cy Young winner for a second consecutive season, joining a small group of pitchers to win both Rookie of the Year and Cy Young honors and becoming the third Pirates pitcher to earn the Cy Young.
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