Yu Darvish and Kenta Maeda are finalists for the Major League Baseball Cy Young Award at 9:32 on November 3rd.
The finalists for the Sai Young Award, which will be given to the Major League Baseball pitcher of the year, have been announced, with Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish in the National League and Twins pitcher Kenta Maeda in the American League.
The Cy Young Award is given to the pitchers of both leagues who were most active in the regular season in honor of Cy Young, the pitcher who won the most 511 wins in the history of the major leagues, and is the best for the pitchers of the major leagues. It is an honor.
The voting of reporters belonging to the Baseball Writers' Association of America to select the winners has already ended, and on the 2nd, the top three players of both leagues were announced as final candidates, and among Japanese players, pitcher Yu Darvish of the Cubs in the National League is the American League. Pitcher Maeda of the Twins entered each.
This is the second time that Darvish has been a finalist since 2013, when he finished second in the Rangers era, and the first time that Maeda has been a candidate.
Pitcher Darvish has won the title with the most wins for the first time as a Japanese player with a record of 8 wins and 3 losses and an ERA of 2.01 this season in the 8th year of the major league, and this is also the first Cy Young Award for a Japanese player. Is also expected to receive the award.
On the other hand, pitcher Maeda also marked a good result with 6 wins and 1 loss and an ERA of 2.70 this season in the 5th year of the Major League Baseball and the 1st year of the Twins.
However, in the American League, Indians pitcher Shane Bieber has dominated the titles of the three major categories with 8 wins and 1 loss, an ERA of 1.63, and a strikeout of 122, and is expected to win the award.
The Cy Young Award will be announced on the 11th and 12th Japan time.