27-year old pitcher, Dominican Sandy Alcantara was unanimously awarded the Cy Young Award for the National League of Major League Baseball on 16 November 2022. He is but the third Dominican-born pitcher to win a Cy Young (joining Bartolo Colon and three-time winner Pedro Martínez). “I made it,” he said when first acknowledging the recognition
Alcántara is the Florida Marlins’ first Cy Young winner. In 2022 he logged an MLB-high 228 2/3 innings — the highest total for any pitcher since David Price’s 230 in 2016 and the highest in the NL since Clayton Kershaw’s 232 2/3 in 2015. Alcantara’s six complete games were the most in MLB in six years and more than any other team in MLB threw in 2022.
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17 November 2022