Cy Young winners Jacob Misiorowski and Cam Schlittler just put up a 2026 tandem not seen since 1905

To no one's real surprise, Jacob Misiorowski of the Milwaukee Brewers and Cam Schlittler of the New York Yankees have been named the 2026 Cy Young Award winners for, respectively, the National League and American League. Each was announced as the winner of Major League Baseball's topmost honor for pitchers, and each won the balloting in unanimous fashion. They are the first duo to win unanimously in the same year in their respective leagues since Justin Verlander and Sandy Alcantara in 2022 and just the third in MLB history.

Obviously, Cy Young winners have necessarily authored excellent seasons, but in the case of this year's winners, the descriptor "excellent" doesn't quite rise to meet the work of Misiorowski and Schlittler:

We could get into stuff, yes, as each has a blazing fastball that overwhelms hitters at the front end of a deep repertoire. This exercise, though, is more about how Misiorowski and Schlittler have overwhelmed the opposition when it comes to keeping runs off the board. You'll note all the strikeouts above, of course, but what may catch the eye is that each boasts a sub-2.00 ERA. That's a time-honored signifier of pitcher impeccability, even if ERA has its flaws.

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