Detroit Tigers’ ace Tarik Skubal has been the 2024 AL Cy Young award winner for months. On Saturday night in New York, he finally got to collect it. The Baseball Writers Association of America presented the award at the 100th Centennial New York Baseball Writers’ dinner. As you might expect, the southpaw looked less comfortable giving an acceptance speech in a tuxedo that he does on the mound with 40,000 opposing fans screaming at him, but he he did a nice job. Lately he’s been getting plenty of practice in media relations.
Skubal sounded all the right notes, thanking ownership, the front office, and in particular his coaches and teammates.