Misiorowski and Schlittler Win Unanimous Cy Young Awards, Third Such Pair in MLB History

Two pitchers, two leagues, 60 ballots, 60 first-place votes.

Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Jacob Misiorowski and New York Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler were named the 2026 National League and American League Cy Young Award winners on Wednesday, Nov. 11, each by unanimous vote of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Roger Clemens, a seven-time winner, announced both results on MLB Network.

This is only the third time MLB has had two unanimous winners in the same year, alongside 1968 (Denny McLain and Bob Gibson) and 2022 (Justin Verlander and Sandy Alcantara).

Misiorowski: 105.5 mph and a title

Misiorowski is 24. He went 16-5 with a 1.80 ERA, the best mark of any starter in baseball, and struck out 252 batters in 30 starts, also the best in the majors. His WHIP was 0.80 and his 6.6 fWAR led all pitchers.

His ERA+ of 232 led the majors. That means his park- and league-adjusted ERA was 132% better than the league average.

The velocity is the signature. In June, he threw a 105.5 mph fastball to Chicago's Pete Crow-Armstrong, the fastest pitch by a starter in the Statcast era. He averaged 100.6 mph on his fastballs and threw more than 1,000 pitches at that speed or faster.

Milwaukee won 103 regular-season games, the best record in baseball, and the NL Central. The Brewers then beat the Tampa Bay Rays 4-1 in the World Series for the franchise's first title. Misiorowski won all four of his postseason starts, went 2-0 in the Series, and won the clincher in Game 5.

He is the first pitcher since Randy Johnson in 2001 to win a Cy Young and a World Series in the same season. He is also the first since Sandy Koufax in 1963 to win a World Series-clinching game after a regular season of at least 250 strikeouts and an ERA under 2.00.

Philadelphia's Cristopher Sánchez finished second in the NL, one voting point ahead of Atlanta's Chris Sale. Misiorowski is the second Brewer to win the NL award, following Corbin Burnes in 2021, and the fourth Brewer overall, after Rollie Fingers (1981) and Pete Vuckovich (1982), who won while Milwaukee was still in the American League.

"Its an honor to represent my city and my teammates," Misiorowski said.

Schlittler: the ace nobody planned on

Schlittler is 25. He went 14-6 with a 1.95 ERA in 33 starts, the lowest ERA in the AL since 2022. Among qualified Yankees pitchers, only Spud Chandler (1.64 in 1943) and Ron Guidry (1.74 in 1978) have posted a lower mark. His ERA+ was 215, which led the American League.

He struck out 239, tied for second in the AL with Toronto's Dylan Cease and behind Cleveland's Gavin Williams, who had 248. He allowed one run or fewer in 21 of his 33 starts, and the Yankees had the best staff ERA in baseball.

He did this in a rotation that included Gerrit Cole, Carlos Rodón and Max Fried, and he emerged as its ace in his first full season.

Manager Aaron Boone said in a statement: "Cam had as dominant a season as a starting pitcher can have from start to finish. He's shown an astonishing amount of growth since we drafted him, and his success is no accident."

"Surreal to be in this moment," Schlittler said.

The BBWAA tally shows how lopsided it was. Schlittler got all 30 first-place votes for 210 points. Cease was second with 110 points, drawing 22 second-place votes. Guardians left-hander Parker Messick was third with 84, and the Rays' Drew Rasmussen fourth with 72.

This was Cease's second runner-up finish. He also placed second in 2022 with the White Sox.

Schlittler is the seventh Yankee to win the award, after Bob Turley (1958), Whitey Ford (1961), Sparky Lyle (1977), Guidry (1978), Clemens (2001) and Cole (2023). He is the third Yankee to win unanimously, joining Guidry and Cole.

A rare early arrival

No pitcher has ever won a Cy Young in a debut season. Winning in the second year is itself a short list: Fernando Valenzuela (1981), Dwight Gooden and Bret Saberhagen (1985), Tim Lincecum (2008), Paul Skenes (2025), and now Misiorowski and Schlittler.

Both also cleared 200 in ERA+. Only 43 pitchers since 1900 have done that over a qualifying number of innings, excluding the 60-game 2020 season. This is only the second time this century that two ERA qualifiers hit that mark in the same year. The first was 2015, with Jake Arrieta and Zack Greinke.

Relievers get their own award

The BBWAA also announced the first Reliever of the Year winners. Toronto's Louis Varland won in the AL and San Diego's Mason Miller won in the NL.

Ballots were submitted before postseason play. Misiorowski's four October starts, all Brewers wins, were not part of what voters weighed.