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Yankees right-hander Slater won the American League Cy Young Award unanimously in the second and first full season of his career, becoming the youngest winner in team history. He suppressed other teams with his excellent pitching.
The 2026 Cy Young Award winner was announced today.Yankees The team’s 25-year-old right-hander, Cam Schlitler, was unanimously selected for the American League Cy Young Award. He won this award in the second season of his career. He became the seventh Cy Young Award winner in Yankees history and also set the record for the youngest Cy Young Award winner in Yankees history.
Slattery was selected in the seventh round of the 2022 draft and transformed into an American League Cy Young Award winner four years later. This year was the first full season of his career in the major leagues. He recorded 14 wins and 6 losses, pitched a total of 193.2 innings, struck out 239 times and walked only 49 times. His ERA of 1.95 was the best in the American League and second in the major leagues. It was also the third-lowest number of eligible pitchers in Yankees history.
Schlatler allowed no more than 1 run in 21 of the 33 games he started this year, the most in the majors. Overall he scored no more than 3 runs in 29 games in most of the majors. Since debuting in the majors in July 2025, his career ERA has been just 2.23.
In the Cy Young Award voting announced today, Slattery won all 30 first-place votes out of 30 cast by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA), and was unanimously selected for the American League Cy Young Award. Dylan Cease of the Blue Jays and Parker Messick of the Guardians finished second and third, respectively.
The Yankees have another pitcher to win the award since Gerrit Cole in 2023, and Slattery also became the youngest Cy Young Award winner in Yankees history. Yankees coach Aaron Boone said at the end of the season that Slattery was getting better year after year and “he’s going to win the Cy Young Award.”
Slattery also said directly, “A lot has happened in the last year.” He mentioned: “At the beginning of the 2025 season, I was still in 2A. I had experienced a little bit of the major league environment in spring training. The team gave me the opportunity, and I took it.”
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In his first full season, he recorded 14 wins and 6 losses, 193.2 innings, 239 strikeouts, and a 1.95 ERA. He allowed no more than 1 run in 21 of 33 starts. His performance throughout the season was extremely disappointing.
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Slattery became the seventh Cy Young Award winner in Yankees history, and also broke the record for the youngest winner in team history; The last time a Yankees pitcher won the Cole Award was in 2023.
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Of the 30 votes cast by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, Slattery received all 30 first-place votes and won the unanimous vote; Heath of the Blue Jays and Messick of the Guardians finished second and third, respectively.
