Philadelphia Phillies ace Aaron Nola put together a Cy Young Award worthy campaign in 2018. Unfortunately for the 25-year-old, he did it in a season with stiff competition.
The former first-round pick finished third overall in National League Cy Young Award voting, with New York Mets righty Jacob deGrom edging out Washington Nationals star Max Scherzer for the award.
Nola, who made his first National League All-Star team in 2018, finished the season with a 17-6 record, 2.37 ERA, 3.01 FIP, 10.0 bWAR and 5.6 fWAR in 212.1 innings. Perhaps most notably, Nola posted a 0.97 ERA in 37 innings spanning five starts where he was matched up with Scherzer, Clayton Kershaw, Noah Syndergaard and David Price.