New York Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler and Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski won the 2026 American League and National League Cy Young Awards unanimously on Wednesday night, each sweeping all 30 first-place votes from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Both 2025 rookies captured their league’s top pitching prize in their first full Major League Baseball seasons.
Ballots from 30 BBWAA writers in each league, two from every league city, were submitted before the postseason and scored on a 7-4-3-2-1 point scale. Both winners finished with the maximum 210 points, joining 2025 NL winner Paul Skenes and 2024 AL winner Tarik Skubal as recent unanimous selections. For the first time, the BBWAA also voted on the Reliever of the Year awards on Wednesday, naming Toronto Blue Jays closer Louis Varland the AL winner and San Diego Padres closer Mason Miller the unanimous NL winner.
American League Cy Young Results and Voting
1. Cam Schlittler, New York Yankees (210 Points)
Schlittler received all 30 first-place votes on the AL Cy Young ballot to become the 14th unanimous winner in league history and the third for New York. The 25-year-old went 14-6 with an AL-best 1.95 ERA, a 0.92 WHIP (walks plus hits per inning pitched), 239 strikeouts and 49 walks across 193.2 innings over 33 starts, earning his first All-Star nod and keeping the Yankees competitive while outfielder Aaron Judge missed long stretches with an injury. His 1.95 ERA is the lowest by an AL starter since Justin Verlander in 2022 and the third-lowest single-season mark in franchise history behind Spud Chandler (1.64 in 1943) and Ron Guidry (1.74 in 1978). Schlittler also set a club record by allowing one earned run or fewer in 21 of his 33 starts, including each of his final nine regular-season outings.
Drafted by New York in the seventh round out of Northeastern University in 2022, Schlittler debuted on July 9, 2025, posting a 2.96 ERA with 84 strikeouts in 73 innings as a rookie, and remains under team control through 2031. He is the seventh Yankees pitcher to win the award, joining Bob Turley, Whitey Ford, Sparky Lyle (1977), Guidry (1978), Roger Clemens and Gerrit Cole (2023). Lyle congratulated Schlittler on Wednesday through the Double-A Somerset Patriots, where Lyle is manager emeritus. Yankees manager Aaron Boone praised Schlittler’s development since the draft in a team statement, noting that “Cam has a tireless appetite for hard work” and adding, “This Cy Young is richly deserved. Cam was the most dominant pitcher” in the AL while growing into a foundational starter for the club.
2. Dylan Cease, Toronto Blue Jays (110 Points)
Cease finished second in the AL voting with 22 second-place votes, six third-place votes and two fourth-place votes for 110 points. He went 11-6 with a 2.40 ERA and tied Schlittler with 239 strikeouts during the 2026 regular season.
3. Parker Messick, Cleveland Guardians (84 Points)
Messick took third place after collecting seven second-place votes, 12 third-place votes, nine fourth-place votes and two fifth-place votes for 84 points. The Guardians starter compiled a 12-9 record with a 2.56 ERA and 193 strikeouts across 186.1 innings.
4. Rest of the AL Cy Young Ballot
Six other pitchers received votes on the AL ballot in order: fourth-place Drew Rasmussen of the Tampa Bay Rays (72 points on one second-place, 12 third-place, 15 fourth-place and two fifth-place votes), fifth-place Sonny Gray of the Boston Red Sox (21 points on three fourth-place and 15 fifth-place votes), sixth-place Reid Detmers of the Los Angeles Angels (nine points on one fourth-place and seven fifth-place votes), seventh-place Cade Smith of the Guardians (two fifth-place votes for two points), and eighth-place finishers Bryan Baker of the Rays and Michael Wacha of the Kansas City Royals (tied with one fifth-place vote and one point apiece).
National League Cy Young Results and Voting
1. Jacob Misiorowski, Milwaukee Brewers (210 Points)
Misiorowski swept all 30 first-place votes in the NL Cy Young voting after pitching 66 innings as a rookie in 2025. In 2026, he led MLB with a 1.80 ERA, 252 strikeouts, 13.0 strikeouts per nine innings and an MLB-record 4.9 hits allowed per nine innings, breaking Ferdie Schupp’s 1916 mark of 5.07. He also recorded the lowest batting average against (.157) and the third-best WHIP (0.802) in major league history, joining Pedro Martinez (2000) and Verlander (2019) as the only pitchers to post at least 250 strikeouts and a WHIP of 0.800 or lower in a single season. According to Sports Illustrated, the Cy Young win triggers a $2.5 million bonus for Misiorowski as part of roughly $3.4 million in pre-arbitration performance bonuses.
Misiorowski anchored a Milwaukee club that won an MLB-high 103 regular-season games and went 11-2 in the playoffs to capture the franchise’s first World Series championship, making him the first pitcher since Verlander in 2022 to win a World Series ring and a Cy Young Award in the same year. He is the fourth Brewers pitcher to win a Cy Young, following AL winners Rollie Fingers (1981) and Pete Vuckovich (1982) and NL winner Corbin Burnes (2021).
2. Cristopher Sánchez, Philadelphia Phillies (99 Points)
Sánchez edged out third place by a single point, earning 17 second-place votes, six third-place votes, six fourth-place votes and one fifth-place vote for 99 points. The Phillies left-hander went 18-7 with a 2.91 ERA and 231 strikeouts in 207 innings.
3. Chris Sale, Atlanta Braves (98 Points)
Sale finished third with 98 points after receiving 11 second-place votes, 16 third-place votes and three fourth-place votes. He went 14-9 with a 2.16 ERA and 200 strikeouts over 162.2 innings for Atlanta.
4. Rest of the NL Cy Young Ballot
Four additional pitchers earned votes on the NL ballot in order: fourth-place Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers (63 points on two second-place, seven third-place, 14 fourth-place and six fifth-place votes), fifth-place Jesús Luzardo of the Phillies (34 points on one third-place, seven fourth-place and 17 fifth-place votes), sixth-place Mason Miller of the Padres (four fifth-place votes for four points), and seventh-place Eduardo RodrÃguez of the Arizona Diamondbacks (two fifth-place votes for two points).
Reliever of the Year Winners and Schedule
Louis Varland, Toronto Blue Jays (AL Reliever of the Year)
Varland captured the first BBWAA-voted AL Reliever of the Year Award after going 5-6 with a 1.27 ERA, 35 saves and 97 strikeouts across 78 innings for Toronto. He finished ahead of Cleveland’s Cade Smith in second place and Tampa Bay’s Bryan Baker in third.
Mason Miller, San Diego Padres (NL Reliever of the Year)
Miller won the NL Reliever of the Year Award unanimously after posting a 5-2 record, a 1.67 ERA, 38 saves and 129 strikeouts in 70 innings for San Diego, beating second-place Jhoan Duran of Philadelphia and third-place Trevor Megill of Milwaukee. Wednesday’s pitching honors followed Tuesday’s Manager of the Year wins by Milwaukee’s Pat Murphy and Chicago’s Will Venable, as well as Monday’s Rookie of the Year wins by Detroit’s Kevin McGonigle and Cincinnati’s Sal Stewart. BBWAA Awards Week concludes on Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. ET on MLB Network with the announcement of the AL and NL Most Valuable Player winners.