In his first season with the Red Sox, Crochet is 13-5 (most wins in the AL) with a big league-high 159⅓ innings, 196 strikeouts (most in the AL), and a 2.43 ERA (just behind Skubal’s 2.42).

Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers won the 2024 AL Cy Young Award, and now, in 2025, he's poised to be one of the top candidates once again for the Cy Young Award.

With low ERAs essentially the only thing either Eovaldi or Crochet had over Skubal, he has gained an edge in this year's AL Cy Young battle. The 2024 Triple Crown winner is pacing the league in WAR at 5.6 in what may be an even more dominant campaign than his superb 2024 season.

With the All-Star break and trade deadline now in the rearview mirror, we have reached the stretch run of the 2025 MLB season, and that means award races will start to become a major talking point.

Leader trend: Judge has come back to the pack a little but in terms of the AXE standings, the only thing he has relinquished is the top overall spot across the majors -- and baseball doesn't give out a Platinum MVP trophy. (Though maybe it should?)

Paul Skenes may very well be the first (?) to win the NL Cy Young Award with a losing record. He’s 7-9 with 2.13 ERA, 5.7bwar/4.7 fWAR. After leading all NL pitchers in bWAR for essentially the whole season,

Last season, Detroit Tigers’ ace Tarik Skubal won the AL Cy Young Award resoundingly, nabbing a rare pitching triple crown. This year, the contest is a little tighter.

The 11th overall pick in the 2006 Major League Baseball Draft, Scherzer became a three-time Cy Young Award winner and 2019 World Series champion. In his age-40 season, he's hoping to add another ring with the Toronto Blue Jays.

Former LSU baseball star Paul Skenes is seeing his odds to win the NL Cy Young improve as the stellar season continues