When assessing who should win the National League Cy Young, we have heard analysts like Harold Reynolds opine Max Scherzer deserves the award over Jacob deGrom partially because Scherzer’s team has been fighting for a postseason berth while deGrom’s team is just flat out terrible. Presumably, this could mean as the season progresses Aaron Nola could surpass both pitchers as his team is fighting for the division.
While many want to believe this notion is antiquated, and maybe it is, but the history of the Cy Young voting has seemingly proved out Reynolds’ argument. So far, there have been 114 Cy Young Awards given out in baseball history. Of that 114, only 16 have been given to pitchers from losing teams. Can you name those pitchers? Good luck!
Bob Gibson Steve Carlton Gaylord Perry Randy Jones Bruce Sutter Roger Clemens Steve Bedrosian Greg Maddux Pat Hentgen Pedro Martinez Brandon Webb Tim Lincecum Zack Greinke Felix Hernandez R.A. Dickey