National League Cy Young Best Bets, Predictions, Odds for 2025 Season

With the 2025 MLB season right around the corner, it's about time we take a look at which pitchers will rise to the occasion this year to capture the Cy Young award in their respective leagues.

In the National League, the race may be won rather quickly by the favorite, but we'll lay out some options as we preview the MLB Futures market.

All odds via FanDuel as of March 8, 2025.

Paul Skenes NL Cy Young Odds: +200

Listen -- Paul Skenes really is that good. He was one of the top strikeout pitchers in all of baseball last season, sitting down 33.1% of his opposition, and on top of that his 2.53 Expected ERA was in the top 3% of all arms.

• This guy is so clearly the best pitcher in the league, and he hasn't even thrown a full season yet.

Skenes' ability to generate strikeouts like this without issuing walks, or surrendering hard-hit balls, is very rare to find. As a result, there's no reason he can't claim the Pitching Triple Crown this year -- even on a bad team.

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He went 11-3 in 23 outings for one of the worst teams in baseball a season ago, and if the Pirates take just a slight step forward like I think they will, he could do the unthinkable and win close to 20 games for a team which misses the postseason by some margin.

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Blake Snell NL Cy Young Odds: +1000

Snell has won this award before, and now after an utterly impressive season for the Giants considering how it started, he'll work with the most talented coaching staff in all of baseball over in Los Angeles.

The lefty is one of those guys I alluded to earlier who has had issues walking batters and giving up home runs around his unbelievable strikeout upside, but last season he at the very least learned how to pitch to more ground balls and softer contact with a team which has done a great job through the years of helping pitchers in those departments.

Snell is one of a handful who can compete with Skenes in the strikeout department, and if he can keep pitching to ground balls and continue limiting walks as he did at the end of last season, he could capture this award again.

Hunter Greene NL Cy Young Odds: +3500

We have to have a discussion about Hunter Greene. It seems everyone has forgotten about the former No. 1 overall pick -- and perhaps it's because he pitches for the Cincinnati Reds. Whatever the reason, he deserves a lot more respect than this number.

Greene is entering his prime at 25 years of age, and coming off a 2.75 ERA in 26 starts last season. Nothing about his numbers look at all like a fluke, considering he did well enough to match his gaudy strikeout numbers and even brought his Expected Batting Average down to .188. That's tough to do in a small park like the one he calls home, particularly considering he's an extreme fly-ball pitcher.

The righty clearly made a massive leap in 2024 if you follow the numbers through the first three years of his career, so who's to say he can't make this kind of jump in his fourth?

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