For a franchise with as much history as the Detroit Tigers have, there have been surprisingly few Cy Young award winners: Tarik Skubal’s win this year was just the fifth in team history.
At the award’s inception in 1956, in honour of legendary pitcher Cy Young (who had died the previous year), there was only one Cy Young award given in Major League Baseball for both the American and the National Leagues combined. After Ford Frick, the Commissioner who instituted the award, retired in 1967, it was decided that there should be one award for each league.