In his first season with the Red Sox, Crochet is 13-5 (most wins in the AL) with a big league-high 159⅓ innings, 196 strikeouts (most in the AL), and a 2.43 ERA (just behind Skubal’s 2.42).

Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers won the 2024 AL Cy Young Award, and now, in 2025, he's poised to be one of the top candidates once again for the Cy Young Award. While Boston Red Sox starter Garrett Crochet and Texas Rangers starters Nate Eovaldi and Jacob DeGrom are top contenders,

Leader trend: Judge has come back to the pack a little but in terms of the AXE standings, the only thing he has relinquished is the top overall spot across the majors -- and baseball doesn't give out a Platinum MVP trophy. (Though maybe it should?)

Last season, Detroit Tigers’ ace Tarik Skubal won the AL Cy Young Award resoundingly, nabbing a rare pitching triple crown. This year, the contest is a little tighter.

Yankees ace Gerrit Cole won his first Cy Young award on Wednesday, capturing the AL honor after pitching to a 2.63 ERA with 222 strikeouts in 2023.

With the All-Star break and trade deadline now in the rearview mirror, we have reached the stretch run of the 2025 MLB season, and that means award races will start to become a major talking point.

Former LSU baseball star Paul Skenes is seeing his odds to win the NL Cy Young improve as the stellar season continues

DETROIT — One year ago, Jake Rogers caught every one of Tarik Skubal’s outings. Skubal won the Cy Young Award and a pitching Triple Crown. He gifted his personal catcher a Rolex as a thank you.