An eagle-eyed reader and fellow Jays history buff pointed out Andrew Stoetens’s excellent recent story in The Athletic, about how Dave Stieb was robbed of the 1982 Cy Young award, and how it’s still affecting his spot in the Blue Jays pantheon and baseball history today.
Pat Hentgen would finally win a Cy Young for the Jays in 1996, and Rogers Clemens would win the pitching triple crown and Cy Young in both 1997 and 1998. Roy Halladay won in 2003 (and in 2010 with the Phillies). No Jay since then has won, although Chris Carpenter won with the Cards in 2005, and Alex Anthopoulos traded for R.