No MLB team has swept the three major Baseball Writers’ Association of America player awards — Most Valuable Player, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year — in a single season.
While that continued in 2024, we saw one team, the Yankees, take home two of the three honors: Luis Gil received the AL Rookie of the Year Award, and Aaron Judge was named AL MVP for the second time in his career.
Overall, 56 teams have claimed two of those three awards in a single season. Prior to 2024, it last occurred in 2019 when the Astros and Mets won their respective league’s Cy Young Award (Justin Verlander, Jacob deGrom) and Rookie of the Year Award (Yordan Alvarez, Pete Alonso). Houston’s Alex Bregman finished as the runner-up to Mike Trout for AL MVP, leaving the Astros on the doorstep of an awards sweep.
Those 56 instances include 19 times when the same club produced specifically the MVP and Cy Young winner (not including years in which a pitcher won both awards on his own). It’s happened only four times since the league expanded to 30 teams in 1998, with the most recent occurrence coming in 2013. That was when Tigers teammates Miguel Cabrera (AL MVP) and Max Scherzer (AL Cy Young) earned the honors.