Randy Johnson was awarded with his fourth consecutive Cy Young Award as well the Major League Baseball Triple Crown.

On November 14, it was announced that RHP Brandon Webb was the recipient of the Cy Young Award for the National League.

" For pitchers, wins, ERA, and strikeouts are the most often-cited statistics, and a pitcher leading his league in these statistics may be referred to as a " Triple Crown " winner ( but normally he has won the Cy Young Award ).

Cy Young, 1911 baseball card

At this time the games tended to be low scoring, dominated by such pitchers as Walter Johnson, Cy Young, Christy Mathewson, and Grover Cleveland Alexander to the extent that the period 1900 – 1919 is commonly called the " Dead-ball era ".

Fred Lynn and Ichiro Suzuki are the only two players who have been named Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in the same year, and Fernando Valenzuela is the only player to have won Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the same year.

Mike Cuellar shared the Cy Young Award with Detroit's Denny McLain.

Jim Palmer won the Cy Young Award, but the Orioles lost the division title to the Boston Red Sox and their mega-rookies Fred Lynn and Jim Rice.

After finishing fourth in 1978, the Orioles finally won the division in 1979 thanks to strong play from Ken Singleton and Cy Young Winner Mike Flanagan.

The Orioles won 100 games in 1980 thanks to Cy Young Winner Steve Stone, but the Yankees won 103 games.

The pitching staff was phenomenal, with four pitchers winning six Cy Young Awards ( Mike Cuellar in 1969 ; Jim Palmer in 1973, 1975, and 1976 ; Mike Flanagan in 1979 ; and Steve Stone in 1980 ).

Led by native Ohioan Cy Young, the Spiders became a contender in the mid-1890s, when they played in the Temple Cup Series ( that era's World Series ) twice, winning it in 1895.

Just weeks before the season opener, most of the better Spiders players were transferred to St. Louis, including three future Hall of Famers: Cy Young, Jesse Burkett and Bobby Wallace.

Cy Young, who returned to Cleveland in 1909, was ineffective for most of his three remaining years and Addie Joss died from tubercular meningitis prior to the season.

The Indians traded fireballer " Sudden Sam " McDowell for Perry, who became the first Indian pitcher to win the Cy Young Award.

Indians Pitcher CC Sabathia won the second Cy Young Award in team history with a 19 – 7 record, a 3. 21 ERA and an MLB-leading 241 innings pitched.

Pitcher Cliff Lee went 22-3 with an ERA of 2. 54 and earned the AL Cy Young Award.

Sutcliffe proceeded to go 16 – 1 for Cubs and capture the Cy Young Award.

In Game 5 the Cubs took a 3 – 0 lead into the 6th inning, and a 3 – 2 lead into the seventh with Sutcliffe ( who won the Cy Young Award that year ) still on the mound.

Interestingly, Kile would go on to finish fifth in voting for the Cy Young Award the following year, as he had in 1997 ( the year before he joined the Rockies ).

Two years earlier, Hampton had won 22 games and finished second in voting for the Cy Young Award as a member of the Houston Astros, while Neagle had been a 20-game winner in 1997 for the Atlanta Braves and had won fifteen games in 2000.

The Cy Young Award is an honor given annually in baseball to the best pitchers in Major League Baseball ( MLB ), one each for the American League ( AL ) and National League ( NL ).

The award was first introduced in 1956 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

Cy Young, for whom the award is named

The Cy Young Award was first introduced in 1956 by Commissioner of Baseball Ford Frick in honor of Hall of Fame pitcher Cy Young, who died in 1955.

With 363 wins, Spahn is the 6th most winning pitcher in history, trailing only Cy Young ( 511 ), Walter Johnson ( 417 ), Grover Cleveland Alexander ( 373 ), Christy Mathewson ( 373 ), and Pud Galvin ( 364 ) on MLB's all-time list.

Figueroa joined a Yankees pitching staff that included Catfish Hunter and Dock Ellis, yet it was Figueroa who turned out to be the staff ace, going 19 – 10 with a 3. 02 ERA to finish fourth in American League Cy Young Award balloting behind Jim Palmer, Mark Fidrych and former California teammate Frank Tanana in.

In the streak, Hernández beat two-time American League Cy Young Award winner Johan Santana of the Minnesota Twins twice and in one of his starts against the Twins, center fielder Torii Hunter was quoted saying, " I can't wait until we face normal pitchers.

The first recipient of the Cy Young Award was Don Newcombe of the Dodgers, and the most recent winners are Clayton Kershaw, from the National League, and Justin Verlander, from the American League.

Welsh language version are numbered ( Cy n ).

A native of St. Louis, Missouri, Galvin played in an era where 2-man pitching rotations were common-hence his 6, 003 innings pitched and 646 complete games, both of which are second only to the career totals of Cy Young.

Although the game does not use any real Major League Baseball teams, one of the default teams, the American Dreams, included players with names that are based on real ( former ) baseball players such as " Pete " ( Pete Rose ), " Hank " ( Hank Aaron ), " Babe " ( Babe Ruth ), " Sandie " ( Sandy Koufax ), " Cy " ( Cy Young ), " Denny " ( Denny McLain ), and " Willie " ( Willie Mays ).

The others are: Cy Young for pitching, Hank Aaron for batting, Roberto Clemente for " sportsmanship, community involvement and the individual's contribution to his team ", and Ted Williams for the All-Star Game MVP Award.

Each of the major leagues also has its own set of awards to recognize the separation between the two, which means there are two MVPs, two Cy Young winners, etc.

Others to do that are Jim Bunning, Ferguson Jenkins, Al Orth, Gaylord Perry, Kevin Brown, Randy Johnson, Nolan Ryan and Cy Young.

Both Valentino and Giancarlo Giammetti are renowned for their extensive collection of art spread throughout their homes around the world including works by Picasso, Cy Twombly, Balthus, and Damien Hirst.

The only other pitchers to match Mussina's 17 seasons of 10 or more victories are Greg Maddux, Warren Spahn, Cy Young, Don Sutton, and Steve Carlton ; all are Hall of Famers except Maddux, who also retired after the 2008 season and thus is not yet eligible.

The UK version differs from the US ( and later CD ) release in a number of respects, including the fact that all the songs are credited to Curnin / West-Oram / Woods / Greenall / Barrett, with lyrics attributed to Cy Curnin only, and that the engineer is listed as Stephen W Tayler rather than Taylor.

All songs are credited as being written by Charlie Barrett, Cy Curnin, Rupert Greenall, and Jamie West-Oram, except where noted.

All songs are written by Dan K. Brown, Cy Curnin, Rupert Greenall, Jamie West-Oram, and Adam Woods, except when noted.

All songs are written by Cy Curnin, Adam Woods, Jamie West-Oram, Rupert Greenall, and Dan K. Brown, except where noted.

All songs are written by Cy Curnin, Rupert Greenall, Jamie West-Oram, and Adam Woods.

Hoffman and Adam Wainwright in 2009 are the only two pitchers to ever receive the most first-place votes and not win the Cy Young.