This is your yearly reminder, for those who might have forgotten, that postseason achievements have nothing to do with baseball’s regular-season awards.

And maybe that should be a subtle reminder to Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Paul Skenes, as well. The former El Toro High star was the 16th unanimous National League Cy Young Award winner, as announced Wednesday, earning all 30 first-place votes after leading the National League with a 1.97 ERA and an 0.948 WHIP, and striking out 216 in 187⅔ innings.

The votes, from members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America selected for that voting panel, were due at the end of the regular season. That happened to be when Skenes’ season ended, while the Philadelphia Phillies’ Cristopher Sánchez – who received all 30 second-place votes – and

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