Tarik Skubal confirmed his greatness in 2025, while Paul Skenes affirmed his is just beginning.

Skubal, the left-handed ace for the Detroit Tigers , won his second consecutive American League Cy Young Award on Wednesday, while Skenes, the second-year right-hander for the Pittsburgh Pirates , followed up his Rookie of the Year season by winning his first National League Cy Young Award, getting all 30 first-place votes in voting conducted by the Baseball Writers Association of America.

Skubal became the first pitcher to win back-to-back awards since Jacob deGrom in 2018-19 for the New York Mets and the first AL pitcher to do so since Pedro Martinez in 1999 and 2000 for the Boston Red Sox . Skenes becomes only the fifth pitcher to win a Cy Young Award in his first or second sea

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