Yankees' Cam Schlittler and Brewers' Jacob Misiorowski make MLB history as unanimous 2026 Cy Young winners

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s awards week delivered its second consecutive historic sweep after New York Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler and Milwaukee Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski captured the 2026 American League and National League Cy Young Awards by unanimous votes.

Each pitcher collected all 30 first-place ballots and a perfect 210 points from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America in his first full major-league season. The twin sweep marks only the third time in baseball history that both leagues produced unanimous Cy Young winners in the same year, joining Bob Gibson and Denny McLain in 1968 and Sandy Alcantara and Justin Verlander in 2022—and arrives right alongside Pete Crow-Armstrong and Yordan Alvarez sweeping the 2026 unanimous MVP ballots.

Misiorowski’s 105.5 mph velocity rewrites the record book

At just 24 years old, the 6-foot-7 Misiorowski turned every start in Milwaukee into a radar-gun spectacle while powering the Brewers to the first World Series championship in franchise history. Across 30 regular-season starts spanning 174.2 innings, he went 16-5 with a major-league-best 1.80 ERA, 252 strikeouts, a .157 opponent batting average, and a 0.80 WHIP—the stingiest full-season WHIP by any qualified starter since Pedro Martinez in 2000.

Misiorowski averaged 100.6 mph on his four-seam fastball and became the first pitcher in MLB history to throw at least 1,000 pitches of 100 mph or faster in a single season, a milestone no entire pitching staff had ever previously matched. He fired a 105.5 mph fastball against Chicago in June—the fastest pitch ever tracked for a big-league starter—before touching a World Series-record 103.5 mph in Game 1 en route to a 2-0, 1.89-ERA October run.

With the victory, Misiorowski becomes the first pitcher since Arizona’s Randy Johnson in 2001 to win a Cy Young Award and a World Series ring in the same season, outpolling Philadelphia left-hander Cristopher Sanchez in second place and Atlanta veteran Chris Sale in third.

Schlittler anchors the Bronx with sub-2.00 dominance

In the American League, the 6-foot-6, 25-year-old Schlittler stepped cleanly to the front of New York’s rotation while veteran ace Gerrit Cole missed time earlier in the campaign. Over 33 starts and 193.2 innings, Schlittler went 14-6 with an AL-leading 1.95 ERA and 239 strikeouts, holding opposing lineups to one earned run or fewer in 21 outings and posting a blistering 1.16 ERA across 17 road starts away from Yankee Stadium.

Toronto Blue Jays starter Dylan Cease finished second on the AL ballot, followed by Cleveland Guardians left-hander Parker Messick in third. Yankees manager Aaron Boone praised Schlittler’s relentless between-starts preparation, calling him a foundational pillar in the Bronx as he became the seventh Cy Young winner in franchise history—and just the third unanimous Yankee winner alongside Ron Guidry in 1978 and Cole in 2023.

Baseball writers also unveiled the season’s Reliever of the Year honorees, naming San Diego Padres closer Mason Miller a unanimous winner in the National League while Toronto Blue Jays closer Louis Varland captured the American League trophy.