deGrom joins Seaver, Gooden and Dickey as the only Mets to Win the Cy Young Award.

It's official, now deGrom earned the coveted Cy Young Award. He earned 29 of the 30 1st place votes and one 2nd place vote.

His last start of the 2018 season was another exceptional performance. He went 8 solid scoreless vs. Braves while fanning 10 batters and lowered his MLB leading ERA to 1.70. He finished the season with a 10-9 record and 269 strikeouts.

He was expected to win it despite his stats. If you consider he played for a losing team; the Mets (77-85) and set a record for making 26 consecutive starts in which his team has scored 3 or less runs for him, you have to feel he's going to get it.

In 2018 he's started 31 games. On a better offensive team he could easily have won say 16 or more games.

The competition had the edge statistically. Aaron Nola of the Phillies went 17-6 with a 2.37 ERA and two-time Cy Young Award winner, Max Scherzer finished 18-7 with a 2.53 ERA to go with 300 strikeouts. However, mighty Max has won the award the past two years.

deGrom is just the fourth Met pitcher to win it. Tom Seaver won it three times (1969, 1973 and in 1975), followed by Dwight Gooden (1985) and R.A. Dickey in 2012.