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2024 Season in Review - Cole Ragans

Jeremy Greco is an editor at Royals Review and has been writing there since 2016. He also co-hosts the Royals Rundown Podcast with Jacob Milham. He plays too many video games.

If you want the short version of Cole Ragans’ 2024 campaign, he finished fourth in Cy Young Award voting behind only Tarik Skubal, teammate Seth Lugo, and reliever Emannuel Clase. That’s a very, very good season.

I would also argue that Clase had no business getting Cy Young votes. Sure, his 0.61 ERA was fantastic. But his 2.64 FIP is only pretty good, he also benefitted from allowing a sub-.