Pirates starter Paul Skenes took home the 2025 National League Cy Young Award in an unanimous decision. This isn’t really news. There is no surprise here. The hardware had his name etched on it in September.

Skenes followed up his Rookie of the Year campaign by leading all of baseball with a 1.97 ERA over 187 innings pitched. An impressive mark (though an untested one considering he never once faced off against the potent San Francisco Giants lineup). His 0.95 WHIP paced the National League while his 216 strikeouts ranked third.

Behind whom, you may ask? Who’s K-dust was the Splinker-man coughing up by season’s end? Our very own strikeout king: Logan Webb.

Webb finished in fourth place behind Skenes, Philadelphia’s Cristopher Sanchez, and LA’s Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

While Skenes and Sánch

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