Which Detroit Tigers have won the AL Cy Young award, along with Tarik Skubal?

On Wednesday — his 28th birthday — Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal became the ninth American League pitcher to win the Cy Young Award unanimously, for a total of 13 times. The others? Shane Bieber (2020), Roger Clemens (1986, ’98), Gerrit Cole (2023), Ron Guidry (1978), Pedro Martinez (1999, 2000), Denny McLain (1968), Johan Santana (2004, ’06) and Justin Verlander (2011, ’22). He’s also the fifth Tiger to take the award (for a total of six times). A quick look at all the Tigers’ Cy Young winners: The buzz: No pitcher since has won more games than McLain’s 31, as he took all 20 votes while also winning the AL MVP and a World Series championship. He led the majors in starts (41) and the AL in complete games (28) and home runs allowed (31). The buzz: McLain had nine shutouts in splitting the award with Baltimore’s Mike Cuellar. Both received 10 of the 24 first-place votes cast by the BBWAA. His wins, innings and starts (41) led the AL, as did his hits allowed (288). The buzz: In his first season with the Tigers after a spring training trade from the Phillies, the closer picked up 32 saves with a 1.92 ERA and finished an MLB-high 68 games. Hernández received 12 of 28 first-place votes, with teammates Dan Petry and Jack Morris finishing fifth and seventh, respectively. The buzz: In also winning the AL pitching Triple Crown (leading his league in ERA, strikeouts and wins) and MVP, J.V. picked up 24 victories — five more than the next AL pitcher — and all 30 first-place votes. Verlander was the first starting pitcher to win Cy Young and MVP in the same season since Clemens in 1986. The buzz: The righty led the majors in wins and WHIP (0.970) while collecting 28 of 30 first-place votes from the writers. (Teammate Aníbal Sánchez received one of the other first-place votes and Chicago’s Chris Sale received the other.) The buzz: Not only was Skubal the third Tiger to win the AL pitching Triple Crown, along with Verlander (2011) and left-hander Hal Newhouser (1945), he nearly won the Crown for all of MLB. He led both leagues in wins (18) and strikeouts (228) but finished a single hundredth behind Sale, now with the Atlanta Braves, in ERA (2.38-2.39), with Sale missing the final 10 days of the season with an injury.