On Monday, two days after the conclusion of a thrilling, dramatic, historic, and downright awful World Series, the Baseball Writers’ Association of America unveiled the finalists for the four major regular season awards: Rookie of the Year, Manager of the Year, Most Valuable Player, and Cy Young. We knew the San Francisco Giants would have no representation in the first three categories, but there was a good chance that their ace Logan Webb would be listed as one of the three finalists for the National League Cy Young Award.

Alas, Webb was not. And in a cruel twist of fate to dig the final knife into the brutal 2025 season for Giants fans, the player who was named a finalist in Webb’s spot was none other than Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto, fresh off a World Series MVP per

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