It was evident that voters did not have much difficulty deciding who the worthy Cy Young Award winners were for either league. Both Milwaukee Brewers ace Jacob Misiorowski and New York Yankees star Cam Schlittler won the award for their respective leagues in unanimous fashion — with all voters giving them their first-place votes.

According to Mikey's Data on X, this is only the third time in MLB history where both Cy Young Awards were handed out in unanimous fashion — with the only other times coming in 1968 and 2022.

In 1968, Bob Gibson won the award in the NL for the St. Louis Cardinals thanks to a 1.12 ERA season across 304.2 innings. For the AL, it was Denny McLain who garnered the unanimous vote thanks to a campaign in which he recorded a sterling 1.96 ERA over an eye-popping 336.0 innings of work.

54 years later, Justin Verlander, for the AL, and Sandy Alcantara, for the NL, would replicate this feat. Verlander put up a 1.95 ERA and won 18 of his 28 starts, and he was the ace for a Houston Astros side that would eventually win the World Series. Meanwhile, Alcantara peaked in this season, as he pitched in a league-best 228.2 innings, recorded six complete games, and finished the year with a 2.28 ERA.

As for Misiorowski and Schlittler, they certainly made the voters' life very easy this year. The Brewers star, who would help lead his team to a World Series title, had a 1.80 ERA in 174.2 innings. His stuff was nasty; courtesy of a four-seam fastball that averaged over 100.5 mph, he struck out 252 batters during his time on the mound for a bonkers 12.98 strikeouts per nine innings.

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Schlittler built off of his cup of coffee in the big leagues and solid postseason play in 2025 and emerged as a true ace for the Yankees in 2026. He also had a sub-2.00 ERA (1.95) across 33 starts (193.2 innings), and the Cy Young race in the AL wasn't really close.

Both are deserving unanimous winners, rewarding them for their elite 2026 campaigns.