No Yankees or Mets received MLB Rookie of the Year votes, and neither Aaron Boone nor Luis Rojas received any votes for Manager of the Year – but New York was No. 2 with a bullet in the Cy Young Award race.
Yankees ace Gerrit Cole finished second in the AL Cy Young Award voting as announced Wednesday night, receiving one first place vote and 29 second-place votes to finish second behind Toronto’s Robbie Ray in the race.
Ray was a near-unanimous winner with 29 first place votes and one second place vote, with only MLB.com’s Jason Beck (representing one of two voters from Detroit) voting Cole-Ray instead of Ray-Cole.
Meanwhile, in the National League, Jacob deGrom of the Mets received one fifth-place vote, coming from Zach Buchanan of the Athletic (representing Arizona). Both New York voters had the same ballot of Wheeler-Burnes-Scherzer-Woodruff, almost the exact order of the Top 5 with just the winner and runner-up reversed.
New York will likely pick up some more votes in the MVP races, which have 10 spots on each ballot, when the winners are announced Thursday night to close out the awards week.
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