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.

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.

CyKey ( pronounced sai-ki or " psyche ") is named after the Microwriter chord system's co-inventor Cy Endfield, who died in 1995 but the name also reflects its intuitive nature.

Cy Young's career is seen as a bridge from baseball's earliest days to its modern era ; he pitched against stars such as Cap Anson, already an established player when the National League was first formed in 1876, as well as against Eddie Collins, who played until 1930.

The season was highlighted by starter Zack Greinke, who did not allow an earned run in the first 24 innings of the season, went on to finish the year with a Major League-leading 2. 16 earned run average, and won the American League Cy Young award.

In the 1984 NLCS, the Padres faced the NL East champion Chicago Cubs, who were making their first post-season appearance since 1945 and featured NL Most Valuable Player Ryne Sandberg and Cy Young Award winner Rick Sutcliffe.

Managed by Bruce Bochy and aided by the talents of players such as Tony Gwynn, Ken Caminiti, Wally Joyner, Steve Finley, pitcher Andy Ashby and premier closer Trevor Hoffman ( 4 – 2, 1. 48 ERA and 53 saves ) – who tied the then-National League record for saves in a single season and finished second in the Cy Young voting that year – the Padres had their best year in history, finishing 98 – 64 and winning the NL West division crown.

Baker told Caine to meet the director, Cy Endfield, who informed him that he already had given the part that Baker had tipped Caine for to James Booth, a fellow Cockney who was Caine's friend, because he looked more Cockney than Caine did.

Preliminary designs included those from effects animator Cy Young, who produced drawings influenced by the patterns on the edge of a piece of sound film.

However, he was easily beaten in the American League MVP voting by pitcher Roger Clemens, who also won the Cy Young Award that year.

* Mike Marshall ( baseball pitcher ), Major League Baseball pitcher who won the 1974 Cy Young Award

He made an immediate impact by becoming Connie Mack's starting catcher in place of Cy Perkins, who was considered one of the best catchers in the major leagues at the time.

* On June 30, 1908, Red Sox pitcher Cy Young walked the New York Highlanders ' leadoff batter, Harry Niles, who was caught stealing.

Actor Cy Grant, who voiced the character of Lieutenant Green in the 1960s and interpreted the series as having positive multicultural value, noted the allegorical nature of Captain Scarlet.

Schilling was once again runner-up in Cy Young voting in 2004, this time to Minnesota Twins hurler Johan Santana, who was a unanimous selection, receiving all 28 first-place votes.

Wakefield won his 200th career game on September 13, 2011 against the Toronto Blue Jays, and is third on the Boston Red Sox with 186 team victories, behind both Cy Young and Roger Clemens, who have 192 each.

Future MLB stars, Cy Young Winner Vern Law and slugger Frank Thomas were on the 1949 Pirates, who swept Evansville, 3-0, to win the Three-I championship.

Johnson, who also finished second in the 1993 and 1997 Cy Young voting, and third in 1994, was the first Seattle Mariners pitcher to win the award, and the only one until Félix Hernández took home the honor in 2010.

Other teammates of Pitino's include Al Skinner, who also went on to become a successful college coach, and baseballer Mike Flanagan, who went on to pitch in the major leagues and win the AL Cy Young Award in 1979.