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Most recent Cy Young Award winners

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2022 AL Cy Young: Justin Verlander

After missing nearly 2 full seasons, Verlander won his 3rd Cy Young Award and his 2nd unanimously

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2022 NL Cy Young: Sandy Alcantara

Alcantara won the 1st Cy Young in Marlins history after his 6 complete games were more than any other team

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2021 AL Cy Young: Robbie Ray

Ray, coming off a season in which he compiled a 6.62 ERA, led the Majors with 248 strikeouts

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2021 NL Cy Young: Corbin Burnes

Burnes edged out Zack Wheeler in the closest NL vote since Cy Young balloting expanded to five pitchers in 2010

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2020 AL Cy Young: Shane Bieber

Bieber led the Majors with eight wins, 122 strikeouts and a 1.63 ERA, becoming MLB's first Triple Crown pitcher since Johan Santana in 2006

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2020 NL Cy Young: Trevor Bauer

Bauer, the Reds' first Cy Young winner ever, led the NL in ERA (1.73)

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2019 AL Cy Young: Justin Verlander

Verlander, who won the '11 Cy with Detroit, led all starting pitchers in wins (21), games started (34) and innings pitched (223)

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2019 NL Cy Young: Jacob deGrom

Voters didn't seem fazed by his 11-8 record, and instead chose to focus on the two-time winner's NL-best 255 strikeouts and his 2.43 ERA

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2018 NL Cy Young: Blake Snell

Snell, the first AL lefty since Dallas Keuchel in '15 to win the award, led AL starters in wins (21) and ERA (1.89)

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2018 NL Cy Young: Jacob deGrom

deGrom's MLB-leading 1.70 ERA was two-thirds of a run lower than the next closest NL starter

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2017 AL Cy Young: Corey Kluber

Kluber. who also won the award in '14, went 18-4 with a 2.25 ERA, the first time since 1949 a Cleveland pitcher led baseball in that statistic

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2017 NL Cy Young: Max Scherzer

Scherzer won the award for the second year in a row and third overall. He's one of 10 pitchers to win three Cy Youngs

All-time Cy Young winners