The St. Louis Cardinals will have neither an MVP nor a Cy Young winner when the votes are tallied in mid-November, but Jack Flaherty could pull off a rare feat by placing as high or higher in the former than the latter.
Nearly everyone thinks the Dodgers’ Cody Bellinger will win National League MVP and the Mets’ Jacob DeGrom will repeat as the NL Cy Young Award winner, but no one’s sure how the rest of the voting will shake out.
Flaherty looks like a top-five Cy Young candidate, with numbers that rival those of DeGrom, the Dodgers’ Hyun-Jin Ryu and the Nationals’ Max Scherzer and Stephen Strasburg.