"Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes was voted the unanimous winner of the 2025 National League Cy Young Award, finishing ahead of Philadelphia Phillies southpaw Cristopher Sánchez and the Los Angeles Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Skenes received all 30 first-place votes and garnered 210 overall points. Sánchez finished with 30 votes for second place and 120 total points. Yamamoto finished in a distant third place for Cy Young Award voting by accumulating 72 points."
"Skenes has now won a second Baseball Writers' Association of America Award in just his second professional season, after being named 2024 NL Rookie of the Year. Skenes is just the third pitcher in MLB history to win Rookie of the Year and a Cy Young Award within his first two seasons, joining Dwight Gooden and Fernando Valenzuela. Skenes finished with the best ERA in the Majors at 1.97, posting a sub-2.00 mark for the second consecutive year."
Paul Skenes was the unanimous winner of the 2025 National League Cy Young Award, collecting all 30 first-place votes and 210 points. Cristopher Sánchez finished second with 120 points and Yoshinobu Yamamoto placed third with 72 points. Skenes won a second Baseball Writers' Association of America Award in his second professional season and became the third pitcher in MLB history to win Rookie of the Year and a Cy Young within his first two seasons. Skenes led MLB with a 1.97 ERA, 217 ERA+ and a 2.36 FIP, and finished top-five in strikeouts and WHIP. Yamamoto went 12-8 with a 2.49 ERA, led MLB with a .183 batting average against, and posted a 0.99 WHIP.
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