Bob Turley, Whitey Ford, Sparky Lyle, Ron Guidry and Roger Clemens are the five Yankee Cy Young winners. Could we see the first recipient since 2001, when Clemens did it for the Yankees?
For the first half of 2018, it looked like the highest honor for a pitcher was Luis Severino’s to win — by a wide margin. By the All-Star break, he was 14-2 with a measly 2.01 ERA and struck out 144 batters in 128.1 innings of work. This included a stellar performance on May 2, where he struck out 10 against the Houston Astros in a complete game shutout.