When he won the NL Cy Young last season, Max Scherzer, who’d won the AL Cy Young in 2013, became one of just six Major League pitchers, along with Gaylord Perry, Pedro Martinez, Randy Johnson, Roger Clemens, and Roy Halladay, to win the award in both leagues.
Just winning two Cy Young awards, period, meant a lot to the Washington Nationals’ right-hander.
“I appreciate the history of the game and all the greats and what they’ve been able to accomplish,” Scherzer said, “... and that really means something to me to be able to be among those [pitchers] because sometimes you pinch yourself like, ‘How the heck did you get here?