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Brewers: Why Corbin Burnes could win the Cy Young Award

Being the minor league pitcher of the year in 2017 and having an amazing 2018 major league debut, it looked as though right-hander Corbin Burnes was going to be electric going into 2019 for the Milwaukee Brewers

It didn’t really go that way.

By May, Burnes had lost his spot in the starting rotation and took several trips to the minors and continued to work in the bullpen to improve his performance. By the looks of it, it didn’t look like Burnes was improving at all, more so heading towards a downward spiral.

In Spring Training last year, Burnes posted a 4.