All 60 first-place votes went to two pitchers. The Baseball Writers’ Association of America announced on November 11 that Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski and New York Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler each won their league’s Cy Young Award without losing a single ballot.
Each man collected 30 of 30 first-place votes and the maximum 210 points. According to the BBWAA, only twice before have both Cy Young races ended unanimously in the same year: 1968, with Denny McLain and Bob Gibson, and 2022, with Justin Verlander and Sandy Alcantara.
The Miz runs away with the National League
Misiorowski, 24, nicknamed “the Miz,” finished 111 points clear of Philadelphia’s Cristopher Sánchez, who took 99. Atlanta’s Chris Sale was one point further back on 98, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Dodgers fourth on 63 and Jesús Luzardo fifth on 34.
His 2026 regular season, reads like a video game stat sheet: a 16-5 record, a 1.80 ERA and an MLB-high 252 strikeouts in 174.2 innings across 30 starts. He also kept breaking his own record for the fastest pitch by a starter since tracking began in 2008, topping out at 105.5 mph against the Cubs in June.
The BBWAA says he is only the second Brewers pitcher to win the award as a National Leaguer, after Corbin Burnes in 2021. Rollie Fingers (1981) and Pete Vuckovich (1982) won theirs when Milwaukee still played in the American League, before the club switched leagues in 1998. His unanimous win is the 17th by an NL pitcher, and the second in a row after Paul Skenes of the Pirates swept the vote in 2025.
Ballots were cast before the playoffs, but October only helped his legend. Milwaukee beat Tampa Bay to claim the first World Series title in franchise history, and Misiorowski went 2-0 with a 0.84 ERA in the Fall Classic.
Schlittler joins Guidry and Cole in the Bronx
In the American League, Schlittler, 25, scored 210 points to 110 for Toronto’s Dylan Cease, a runner-up for the second time after also finishing second in 2022. Cleveland’s Parker Messick (84) and Tampa Bay’s Drew Rasmussen (72) completed the top four, and all four names appeared on every ballot.
The BBWAA says Schlittler is the seventh Yankee to win the Cy Young and the third to do it unanimously, after Ron Guidry in 1978 and Gerrit Cole in 2023. The other Yankees winners were Bob Turley, Whitey Ford, Sparky Lyle and Roger Clemens.
A seventh-round pick in the 2022 draft out of Northeastern University near Boston, Schlittler stepped in as the Yankees’ ace while Cole recovered from Tommy John surgery. His 1.95 ERA led the American League, and he finished with 22 starts in which he gave up one run or fewer, a franchise record.
How the voting works
Two writers from each league city cast a ballot ranking five pitchers. A first-place vote is worth 7 points, second 4, third 3, fourth 2 and fifth 1, so 30 voters can hand out a top score of 210. Here is the gap that score opened up in each race:
- Misiorowski 210, Sánchez 99: a winning margin of 111 points
- Schlittler 210, Cease 110: a winning margin of 100 points
Put another way, each winner more than doubled the second-place total in his league, a split rarely seen even in landslide years. Sánchez also became just the fifth pitcher to finish second in back-to-back seasons, a club that includes Brandon Webb, Curt Schilling and Dan Quisenberry.
Both pitchers made their major league debuts in the summer of 2025, Misiorowski on June 12 and Schlittler on July 9. Less than 18 months later, both own the sport’s top pitching prize. For more from the diamond and beyond, our latest sports stories include the young NHL captain Macklin Celebrini closing in on 200 career points for San Jose.
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