Cy Young Award

The Cy Young Award was introduced in 1956 by Commissioner of Baseball Ford C. Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955. In 1974, Mike Marshall became the first relief pitcher to win the award. to win the award. Since then only one other relief pitcher has won the award, Éric Gagné in 2003 (also a closer). Nine relief pitchers have won the Cy Young Award across both leagues. Steve Carlton in 1982 became the first pitcher to win more than three Cy Young Awards, while Greg Maddux in 1994 became the first to win at least three in a row (and received a fourth straight the following year), a feat later repeated by Randy Johnson. ==Winners==

Major Leagues combined (1956–1966) American League (1967–present) National League (1967–present) Multiple winners Twenty-two (22) pitchers have won the award multiple times. Roger Clemens has won the most Cy Young Awards, with seven. His first and last wins were 18 years apart. Greg Maddux (1992–1995) and Randy Johnson (1999–2002) share the record for the most consecutive awards won, with four. Clemens, Johnson, Pedro Martínez, Gaylord Perry, Roy Halladay, Max Scherzer, and Blake Snell are the only pitchers to win the award in both the American League and National League. Sandy Koufax is the only pitcher to win multiple awards during the period when only one award was presented for all of MLB. Roger Clemens was the youngest pitcher to win a second Cy Young Award, while Tim Lincecum is the youngest pitcher to do so in the National League, and Clayton Kershaw is the youngest left-hander to do so. Kershaw is the youngest pitcher to win a third Cy Young Award. Clemens is also the only pitcher to win the award with four different teams; nobody else has done so with more than two different teams. Justin Verlander has the most seasons separating his first (2011) and second (2019) Cy Young Awards. Wins by teams Only two teams have never had a pitcher win the Cy Young Award. The Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers have won more than any other team with 12. Unanimous winners There have been 22 players who unanimously won the Cy Young Award, for a total of 29 wins. Six of these unanimous wins were accompanied by a win of the Most Valuable Player award (marked with * below; ** denotes that the player's unanimous win was accompanied by a unanimous win of the MVP Award). In the National League, 13 players have unanimously won the Cy Young Award, for a total of 16 wins. • Sandy Koufax (1963*, 1965, 1966) • Greg Maddux (1994, 1995) • Bob Gibson (1968*) • Steve Carlton (1972) • Rick Sutcliffe (1984) • Dwight Gooden (1985) • Orel Hershiser (1988) • Randy Johnson (2002) • Jake Peavy (2007) • Roy Halladay (2010) • Clayton Kershaw (2014*) • Sandy Alcántara (2022) • Paul Skenes (2025) In the American League, nine players have unanimously won the Cy Young Award, for a total of 13 wins. • Denny McLain (1968**) • Ron Guidry (1978) • Roger Clemens (1986*, 1998) • Pedro Martínez (1999, 2000) • Johan Santana (2004, 2006) • Justin Verlander (2011*, 2022) • Shane Bieber (2020) • Gerrit Cole (2023) • Tarik Skubal (2024) ==See also==