12 sleeper Cy Young candidates for 2019

The competition for each league's Cy Young Award will be fierce once again in 2019.

Chris Sale is still searching for his first Cy Young, and Max Scherzer is a favorite until proven otherwise. But you could rattle off about 10 more contenders without pause, because that's how good Major League pitching is right now. Trevor Bauer, Walker Buehler, Gerrit Cole and Aaron Nola all looked like Cy Young contenders last year, Jacob deGrom and Noah Syndergaard aren't going anywhere, and we haven't even mentioned the "old guard" aces like Clayton Kershaw, Corey Kluber and Justin Verlander.

But allow us to dream a little deeper and look at some true dark-horse candidates, ranging from those who might be…