Tarik Skubal has added many accolades to his identify for the primary time in 2024. Now he’ll add the most effective pitching award to his mantle.
The Detroit Tigers ace was named the American League Cy Young Award winner for the 2024 season on Wednesday, beating out finalists Seth Lugo (Kansas City Royals) and Emmanuel Clase (Cleveland Guardians) for the respect. He received all 30 first-place votes, changing into the third consecutive unanimous AL Cy Young winner after Gerrit Cole (New York Yankees) and Justin Verlander (Houston Astros).
Skubal, who celebrated his twenty eighth birthday on Wednesday, had a memorable yr main Detroit to the playoffs after a stunning late-season run. He went 18-4 with a 2.39 ERA, a 0.922 WHIP and 228 strikeouts in 192 innings pitched over 31 begins.
Skubal’s win whole, ERA and strikeout whole had been probably the most within the American League, making him (together with Chris Sale within the National League) the primary pitcher to win the Triple Crown in a 162-game season because the former Tigers ace Verlander and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw did so of their respective leagues in 2011. Verlander received the Cy Young Award for his play that season as Skubal is the sixth Tigers participant to win the award.
After a dominant common season, Skubal was nailed in his first two postseason begins. He did not enable a run in both recreation, shutting out the Houston Astros in Game 1 of the wild-card spherical earlier than pitching seven innings of shutout ball in Game 2 of the ALDS towards the Guardians. However, Skubal didn’t carry out properly within the Tigers’ series-clinching loss to the Guardians, permitting 5 factors.
However, Skubal’s 2024 season was nearly as good as any pitcher’s, particularly when contemplating the circumstances. The lefty was out from the center of the 2022 season till the center of the 2023 season because of flexor tendon surgical procedure.
As Skubal and the Tigers stunned in 2024, Wednesday’s vote wasn’t a lot. They’ll hope that is the case for the longer term and can possible have among the finest pitchers within the recreation for the foreseeable future serving to them.
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