Jacob Misiorowski and Cam Schlittler both won the 2026 Cy Young Award unanimously, just the third double sweep. Full vote totals and MVP night details.
Jacob Misiorowski of the Milwaukee Brewers and Cam Schlittler of the New York Yankees are the 2026 Cy Young Award winners, and both won unanimously. The Baseball Writers' Association of America announced the results Wednesday night, Nov. 11, on MLB Network. Each pitcher got all 30 first-place votes and 210 points, according to the BBWAA's published ballots.
Who won the 2026 Cy Young Awards, and by how much?
Misiorowski, 24, took the National League award. The Phillies' Cristopher Sánchez finished second with 99 points, one clear of the Braves' Chris Sale at 98. The Dodgers' Yoshinobu Yamamoto was fourth with 63 and the Phillies' Jesús Luzardo fifth with 34, per the BBWAA.
Schlittler, 25, won in the American League. The Blue Jays' Dylan Cease was second with 110 points, followed by the Guardians' Parker Messick (84), the Rays' Drew Rasmussen (72) and the Red Sox's Sonny Gray (21). Votes are weighted 7-4-3-2-1 from first to fifth place, and each league has 30 ballots, two writers from every city.
What did each pitcher actually do in 2026?
MLB.com says Misiorowski led the majors in ERA (1.80), strikeouts (252), strikeout rate (37.9%), WHIP (0.80) and opponent batting average (.157) over 174 2/3 innings. It also notes he touched 105.5 mph against the Cubs and was the hardest starter to hit in history. His Brewers won the World Series, beating the Rays in five games for the first title in franchise history, according to Sports Illustrated.
Schlittler went 14-6 with an AL-best 1.95 ERA in his first full big league season, MLB.com reports. Cease's case, in MLB.com's words, rested on a big ceiling: 237 strikeouts and 12.7 per nine innings, a Blue Jays record for qualified pitchers. Messick, a rookie, became only the sixth rookie named a Cy Young finalist, per the Elias Sports Bureau figures MLB.com cites.
How rare is a double unanimous sweep?
Very. The BBWAA says it is only the third time both leagues' winners were unanimous. The other years were 2022, with Justin Verlander and Sandy Alcantara, and 1968, with Denny McLain and Bob Gibson. Misiorowski is the 17th unanimous NL winner and the second in a row after Paul Skenes last year. Schlittler is the 13th unanimous AL winner.
Two smaller records came with it. Misiorowski is the second Brewers pitcher to win an NL Cy Young after Corbin Burnes in 2021, and Sánchez is the fifth pitcher to finish second in back-to-back years. One timing note matters here: the ballots were cast before the postseason, so October did not move a single vote.
Our take
The NL race was never close at the top, but the margin below him was. Sánchez and Sale finished one point apart, which tells you how the writers split on a workhorse who led MLB in wins and wins above replacement, per MLB.com's profile, against a lefty with a 2.16 ERA. Yamamoto in fourth was 35 points further back. In the AL, the distance from Schlittler to Cease (100 points) says there was no real debate.
Both winners are young. That is the part to watch, because awards like this tend to reset the market and the conversation around their teams for years.
What is next in awards week?
The MVP Awards are Thursday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. ET on MLB Network and MLB+. AL finalists are Houston's Yordan Alvarez, Tampa Bay's Junior Caminero and Kansas City's Bobby Witt Jr. NL finalists are the Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong, the Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani and the Brewers' Brice Turang. MLB.com says that for the first time since 2020, neither Aaron Judge nor Ohtani will win. Silver Slugger winners follow on Tuesday, Nov. 17, per Sports Illustrated.
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