Cam Schlittler won the American League Cy Young Award after posting a 14-6 record with a 1.95 ERA for the New York Yankees.
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Cam Schlittler won the American League Cy Young Award on Wednesday night, becoming the second New York Yankees pitcher to receive the honor in the last four years.
Gerrit Cole previously won the Cy Young Award with the Yankees in 2023, after which Tarik Skubal won the last two AL Cy Young Awards while pitching for Detroit. Cole had been the first Yankee to win the award since Roger Clemens in 2001.
Schlittler, 25, finished the season at 14-6 with an AL-leading 1.95 ERA that ranked third in Yankees history, behind Spud Chandler’s 1.64 in 1943 and Ron Guidry’s 1.74 in 1978. He struck out 239 batters, tying for second in the American League with Toronto’s Dylan Cease, behind Cleveland’s Gavin Williams with 248.
This was Schlittler’s first full season in the majors after making his MLB debut in the summer of 2025. The American League Cy Young finalists included Cease and Cleveland’s Parker Messick.
Cease went 11-6 with a 2.40 ERA and had been the AL runner-up in the Cy Young Award in 2022 with the Chicago White Sox. Messick posted a 12-9 record with a 2.56 ERA and 193 strikeouts in 186 1/3 innings.
The award is voted on by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. The NL Cy Young winner was to be announced later Wednesday, with finalists listed as Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski, Philadelphia’s Cristopher Sánchez and Atlanta’s Chris Sale.
In the National League, Misiorowski finished 16-5 with a 1.80 ERA and 252 strikeouts in 174 2/3 innings. Sánchez went 18-7 with a 2.91 ERA and 231 strikeouts in 207 innings. Sale, who won the Cy Young Award in 2024, posted 14-9 with a 2.16 ERA and 200 strikeouts in 162 2/3 innings.
The reliever of the year award winners in both leagues also were scheduled to be announced Wednesday night. American League finalists were listed as Tampa Bay’s Bryan Baker, Toronto’s Louis Varland and Cleveland’s Cade Smith, while National League finalists were listed as Philadelphia’s Jhoan Duran, Milwaukee’s Trevor Megill and San Diego’s Mason Miller.
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