Paul Skenes Wins 2025 NL Cy Young Award
November 12, 2025 at 2:22 pm,
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By Jason Shetler
In a voting that was widely expected, Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes is the 2025 National League Cy Young Award winner. Cristopher Sanchez of the Philadelphia Phillies and Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers were the other finalists.Skenes joins Vern Law (1960) and Doug Drabek (1990) as the only Pirates pitchers to win the Cy Young award.
After winning NL Rookie of the Year honors in 2024, Skenes is this year’s NL Cy Young recipient, as he becomes the first pitcher to capture Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young in his first two seasons since Dwight Gooden in 1984 and 1985.
Skenes led all NL pitchers this season in ERA (1.97), FIP (2.36), WHIP (0.95), and bWAR (7.7).
The 2025 season for Skenes was perhaps the greatest by a starter in franchise history. His 1.97 ERA is the lowest by a Pirates pitcher with a minimum of 30 starts in the modern era. Skenes also surpassed Mitch Keller for most strikeouts in a season by a Pittsburgh right-hander with 216.