Cubbies Crib
FanSided

Full list of Chicago Cubs pitchers who have won the NL Cy Young award

Justin Steele is in serious consideration for the National League Cy Young award this year. Here is the elite group of Cubs pitchers he would join should he take home the award.

By Rich Eberwein

World Series - Chicago Cubs v Cleveland Indians - Game Six
World Series - Chicago Cubs v Cleveland Indians - Game Six / Elsa/GettyImages
facebooktwitterreddit
Prev
4 of 6
Next

Rick Sutcliffe: 1984

Rick Sutcliffe certainly had a respectable MLB career, and much of it was in a Cubs uniform. Although he won the National League Cy Young award in 1984, by all measures of the game, he probably should not have. New York Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden was the runner-up in the race, but he had better statistics than Sutcliffe in almost every major pitching category.

Innings Pitched

ERA

K

W/L

WAR

WHIP

Dwight Gooden

218

2.60

276

17-9

5.5

1.073

Rick Sutcliffe

150.1

2.69

155

16-1

3.9

1.078

This is a real head-scratcher. Whether it was the fact that Gooden was a 19-year-old rookie or the fact that baseball writers used to put way too much value on wins and losses, the guy simply got snubbed by today's standards. That's not to take anything away from Sutcliffe, as he was a two-time All-Star for the Cubs and one of the team's main starting pitchers throughout the 80s. He is also a color broadcaster for the Cubs' Marquee Sports Network and regularly fills in for Jim Deshaies.

Home/Chicago Cubs News