Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal won his second consecutive American League Cy Young Award and Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Paul Skenes was the unanimous choice for his first National League Cy Young on Wednesday.

Skubal is the 12th pitcher — and fifth in the American League — to win back-to-back honors. The last pitcher to accomplish that was the New York Mets’ Jacob deGrom in 2018-19, while the most recent AL hurler was the Boston Red Sox’s Pedro Martinez in 1999-2000.

A two-time All-Star, Skubal went 13-6 with an AL-leading 2.21 ERA and 6.5 WAR for pitchers. He led the majors with a 0.891 WHIP, 1.5 walks per nine innings and 7.30 ratio of strikeouts to walks. He totaled 241 strikeouts to 33 walks while pitching 195 1/3 innings over 31 starts.

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