Put 30 baseball writers in a room and you’re guaranteed to hear at least a large majority of them declare New York Mets ace Jacob deGrom as the 2018 National League Cy Young winner. This is similar to what happened when 30 writers put in their vote for the award several weeks ago.
Only one first-place vote didn’t go to deGrom. However, deGrom did still finish second on that writer’s ballot. Instead, Max Scherzer took the vote in a year where he pitched great, too.
Not everyone is happy with deGrom’s Cy Young victory.