How PSEi member stocks performed — November 13, 2025
Here’s a quick glance at how PSEi stocks fared on Thursday, November 13, 2025.
Recipe for disaster
The decision by the Mavericks to relieve Nico Harrison of his duties as general manager marks a turning point for all and sundry. When he orchestrated the departure of erstwhile franchise cornerstone Luka Doncic, he promised immediate and sustained contention for them. Instead, they have suffered from an identity crisis. His firing opens a new chapter, perhaps not with the certainty of triumph, but with the palpable relief that comes with the admission that they made a monumental mistake.
The Mavericks are just nine months removed from pulling the trigger on one of the most stunning and controversial deals in the history of the National Basketball Association. The imperative for Harrison was clear: renovate the roster, pivot from a Doncic-centric offence to an Anthony Davis-anchored defense, and open a fresh championship window. Needless to say, they grossly underestimated how deep the structural and emotional currents ran. The trade dismantled the bedrock identity of the blue and white and exposed their intrinsic frailties.
In the aftermath, the results have been brutal. The Mavericks barely made the play-in tournament after the trade deadline, and then failed to survive it. This season, they have been a woeful 3-8 so far, ranking among the worst in the league in offensive efficiency, three-point shooting, and assists. Throughout the slide, Davis has been mostly injured; add Kyrie Irving’s continued sidelining to this familiar sight, and the recipe for disaster is complete.
In the locker room and in the stands, the mood stayed sour. Fans kept up with the “Fire Nico” chants, and ownership, led by governor Patrick Dumont, finally owned up to the legacy-altering misstep by letting go of Harrison. The veritable acknowledgment of the blunder brings with it no small measure of embarrassment. At the same time, it heralds hope and triggers a foundational rebuild; reports have noted that the Mavericks will pursue a senior basketball operations hire and shift attention to the future by focusing on top overall pick Cooper Flagg and other draft assets.
To be sure, the road ahead remains rife with obstacles. The Mavericks are constrained by earlier player swaps that will cost them draft picks between 2027 and 2030. And even as they will still carry Davis’ contract and injury history, they look to rebuild the trust of an alienated fan base. Once more, they’re seizing an opportunity to change direction. This time, however, they’re doing so on the strength of reflection and not bravado. Whether they ultimately succeed in their pivoting, only time will tell.
Anthony L. Cuaycong has been writing Courtside since BusinessWorld introduced a Sports section in 1994. He is a consultant on strategic planning, operations and human resources management, corporate communications, and business development.
Misery index climbs to 2-month high in September
The Philippine’s adjusted misery index climbed to a two-month high of 16.2% in September from 15.7% in August. While this may have reflected an improvement in the jobless rate, it also showed underemployment rate, the share of workers seeking more jobs, worsening. The index, which now incorporates adjusted underemployment rate* alongside inflation and unemployment rates, offers a broader measure of economic discomfort. Originally developed by economist Arthur Okun, the misery index serves as a proxy for economic destress. A lower reading typically signals better economic health, though structural issues may persist beneath the surface.
My father’s legacy of integrity, family, and faith
Nov. 1 is not only All Saints’ Day — it’s also a day of joyful remembrance. It marks the birthday of Benjamin “Amen” M. Gozon, our beloved Tatay — a man whose life of honesty, humility, and devotion continues to guide our family.
This year, we celebrated by visiting the Manila Cemetery ahead of the crowd and gathering for lunch on Nov. 2. Granddaughter Annette Gozon Valdez used AI to bring old photos to life in our family chat — sparking laughter, tears, and nostalgia. Inspired, Ate Kay gathered more vintage pictures, and her son Menardo “Butch” Jimenez turned them into a moving video of memories that reminded us what a rare man our Tatay truly was.
Tatay, a lawyer, served as Director of Mines for 14 years, Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources under President Diosdado Macapagal, and Governor of the Land Authority, the forerunner of the Department of Agrarian Reform. He became the first non-engineer Director of Mines — a testament to his diligence. “Every task assigned to me, I studied well” he would say. His dedication and fairness earned him respect.
During his term as Director of Mines, I recall a major corruption case — the Harry Stonehill scandal dominated the headlines. Yet Tatay slept soundly. His principle was simple: “The softest pillow is a clear conscience.” He lived by that, keeping his reputation spotless throughout his government career. Today when we see integrity compromised, his life reminds us that success is measured not by wealth or titles.
When President Diosdado Macapagal appointed him to the Cabinet, Tatay himself was surprised as the President didn’t even know him personally. It was his staff’s testimony about his honesty and diligence that opened the door. A testament that when we do right or wrong, it will eventually get known. When he was Governor of the Land Authority, one of his first acts was to expropriate my mother’s (Carolina “Arling” Lapus Gozon ) inherited rice lands in Nueva Ecija — proof that official duty came before family.
Beyond public service, Tatay was a devoted husband and father. My mother “Arling” was a hardworking businesswoman and family disciplinarian. When her temper showed, Tatay would gently remind us: “Your mother works very hard for all of you and thinks of nothing else but her children.” He modeled respect and understanding in marriage — a quiet strength that grounded our home. Four of us children — Benjamin Gozon, Jr., Carolina “Kay Gozon Jimenez,” Felipe “Henry Gozon,” and myself — believed and truly felt we were the favorite. Family matters counselor Bishop Jonel Milan said: “Your father was a natural “psychologist. He treated each child uniquely, knowing what mattered most to each one.”
From his travels, he gave me the Nancy Drew book series, my favorite in the elementary school. Ate Kay, the eldest daughter, was made to feel special and responsible. Kuya Ben carried the pride of being his namesake and firstborn, and Henry, the youngest son, had his own tender place in Tatay’s heart.
He taught by encouragement. When I struggled in math, he simply said: “Kaya mo ’yan. Wala akong anak na bumabagsak.” So, I studied harder — and passed. When granddaughter Laurie (now Jimenez Westfall),as a toddler would throw tantrums and bump her head in the wall. Tatay called her “Baet” (“good girl”). And… she actually became one.
Tatay’s wisdom lives on in his simple, powerful reminders: Always do the best in everything you do. Aim high, and if you achieve 50% of what you want in life, consider yourself blessed. Spend wisely and with gratitude. Huwag ubos-ubos biyaya. He practiced financial discipline. Every Christmas he took his grandchildren for shopping. If they chose beyond the budget, he gently squeezed their hand — the cue to look for something else. He taught to live within your means, contentment, and stewardship without a single lecture. He lived his faith quietly and deeply. He read the Bible several times. He treated everyone with respect and warmth.
His 14 grandchildren, his treasures, are now grown and ALL well accomplished. From Ben Jr.: Belinda Madrid, Mylene Gana, Benjie and Nicky; from Kay Jimenez: Butch, Joel, Laurie, and Carmen Ong; from Felipe “Henry”: Annette, Philip, Maritess Viterbo; and from me: Edmin, Ted and Tricia Valderrama.
We remember Tatay as a model of integrity, service, and faith. His life is a blessing, an inspiration we remember with love and fondness on All Saints’ Day, his birthday.
The views expressed herein are her own and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of her office as well as FINEX.
Flor G. Tarriela is the youngest of the children of Benjamin M. Gozon. She is a finance and banking professional. She founded Flor’s Garden in Antipolo.
Gov’t warned investments will dry up if corruption not acted on
By Justine Irish D. Tabile, Reporter
The corruption scandal engulfing the infrastructure industry is expected to deter investments if the government does not prosecute those involved and follow up with reforms.
Danish Ambassador to the Philippines Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin sees the corruption issue as an opportunity for the Philippines to move forward.
“Of course, everybody is waiting to see actual action on this,” he told reporters on the sidelines of the Nordic Ambassadors’ Forum 2025 on Thursday.
“I think that will send a very important signal: what is the government actually going to do to prosecute and process cases against those who are going to be indicted and who are under suspicion for having stolen and misused public funds,” he added.
He said that the government should not stop at prosecutions but also look at how it can improve existing processes to attract more investment.
“We do have some specific ideas on how to stem the tide in several areas. One of them would be to digitize more, but not just on the front end. It has to be digitization on the back end of government services,” he said.
“As long as you’re pushing paper around, that does open, unfortunately, the opportunity for individuals to mess with the process or to elicit certain favors. This is one way you can improve,” he added.
He also cited the need for the government to make regulations clearer and more objective.
“I think that there are quite a lot of opportunities, and I’m very happy that the business community now also is stepping forward trying to help the government with specific suggestions,” he said.
“One of those suggestions is to have more centralized tax assessment (for a) higher degree of professionalism and transparency in tax assessments,” he added.
Nordic Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines President Bo Lundqvist said corruption does not instill confidence among Nordic investors.
“If there is any takeaway… it is how important these matters — honesty, trust, and transparency — are to us Nordics,” he told BusinessWorld.
“From a business perspective, if you plan to make a serious (long-term) investment… you want to make sure you as a country (has) at least those ideals and those values that you bring with you,” he added.
He described as a positive development the initiation of the inquiry by the President, adding that the Congress has been diligent in its investigation, raising confidence that prosecutions will eventually succeed.
“That’s the first thing to do. Enforce, right? You cannot change the world in one day. Everyone understands that. You cannot change traditions and all that,” he added.
“If you start (demanding) accountability, where people actually get punished for wrongdoing, well, then that hopefully changes the attitude, and we can slowly get to a more transparent and honest type of government,” he added.
He said the government needs to put budgets, transactions, spending, and progress reports online.
“The transparency needs to go all the way to what was actually spent and what was actually done … I think a chain of checkpoints (is required),” he added.
Postponed La Salle-Ateneo match serves as UAAP 88 Final Four finale
The postponed duel of De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University will now serve as the finale to an anticipated photo finish race with Final Four seats at stake in the UAAP Season 88 men’s basketball.
The UAAP on Thursday announced the new date of the much-awaited match between the archrivals set on Nov. 26 at the Smart Araneta Coliseum after its suspension on Nov. 9 due to super typhoon Uwan.
But aside from the long-time animosity in the Blue-Green basketball war, major Final Four complications could also be up for grabs for a fitting finale in the main game at 4:30 p.m.
Ateneo escaped La Salle in the first round, 81-74, holding on despite nearly losing an enormous 33-point lead, for then a 4-0 start before losing four of its last five games.
La Salle, with a late push after a 2-3 start, sits at third with a 6-4 slate while Ateneo is not far behind at fifth place with a 5-5 record, making it a make-or-break game if they remain within striking distance of each other by next week.
University of Santo Tomas is barely ahead of Ateneo at 6-5 for the coveted fourth place as National University (10-2) and titleholder University of the Philippines (8-3) pace the race for an inside track to the Top 2 laced by twice-to-beat incentives.
Still in contention behind are Adamson University (5-6) and Far Eastern University (FEU) (4-7) with the University of the East being the only eliminated squad so far.
And that also makes the other suspended game equally interesting, starring Santo Tomas and FEU at 1:30 p.m.
Other postponed matches that will retain scheduled game times are Ateneo-La Salle Zobel (U16) at 7:30 a.m., Santo Tomas-FEU Diliman (U16) at 9:30 a.m., Santo Tomas-FEU (women) at 11:30 a.m. and Ateneo-La Salle (women) at 7 p.m.
All tickets dated Nov. 9 will be honored by the UAAP and the Smart Araneta Coliseum for the new schedule while refunds are also available.
“Tickets purchased for the postponed Nov. 9 games will be honored on the new game date, and will remain valid for entry to the corresponding games indicated on the ticket. For those who wish to request a refund, please refer to the details,” said the UAAP. — John Bryan Ulanday
Trump signs deal to end longest US gov’t shutdown in history
WASHINGTON — President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday signed legislation ending the longest government shutdown in US history, hours after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hun-dreds of thousands of federal workers and revive a hobbled air-traffic control system.
The Republican-controlled chamber passed the package by a vote of 222-209, with Mr. Trump’s support largely keeping his party together in the face of vehement opposition from House Democrats, who are angry that a long standoff launched by their Senate colleagues failed to secure a deal to extend federal health insurance subsidies.
Mr. Trump’s signature on the bill, which cleared the Senate earlier in the week, will bring federal workers idled by the 43-day shutdown back to their jobs starting as early as Thursday, although just how quickly full government services and opera-tions will resume is unclear.
“We can never let this happen again,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval Office during a late-night signing ceremony that he used to criticize Democrats. “This is no way to run a country.”
The deal extends funding through Jan. 30, leaving the federal government on a path to keep adding about $1.8 trillion a year to its $38 trillion in debt.
“I feel like I just lived a Seinfeld episode. We just spent 40 days and I still don’t know what the plotline was,” said Republican Representative David Schweikert of Arizona, likening Congress’ handling of the shutdown to the misad-ventures in a popular 1990s US sitcom.
“I really thought this would be like 48 hours: people will have their piece, they’ll get a moment to have a temper tantrum, and we’ll get back to work.”
He added: “What’s happened now when rage is policy?”
The shutdown’s end offers some hope that services crucial to air travel in particular would have some time to recover with the critical Thanksgiving holiday travel wave just two weeks away. Restoration of food aid to millions of families may also make room for household budgets for spending as the Christmas shopping season moves into high gear.
It also means the restoration in coming days of the flow of data on the US economy from key statistical agencies. The absence of data had left investors, policymakers and households largely in the dark about the health of the job market, the trajectory of inflation, and the pace of consumer spending and economic growth overall.
Some data gaps are likely to be permanent, however, with the White House saying employment and consumer price index reports covering the month of October might never be released.
By many economists’ estimates, the shutdown was shaving more than a tenth of a percentage point from gross domestic product over each of the roughly six weeks of the outage, although most of that lost output is expected to be recouped in the months ahead.
NO PROMISES ON HEALTHCARE
The vote came eight days after Democrats won several high-profile elections that many in the party thought strengthened their odds of winning an extension of health insurance subsidies, which are due to expire at the end of the year.
While the deal sets up a December vote on those subsidies in the Senate, Speaker Mike Johnson has made no such promise in the House.
Democratic Representative Mikie Sherrill, who last week was elected as New Jersey’s next governor, spoke against the funding bill in her last speech on the US House floor before she resigns from Congress next week, encourag-ing her colleagues to stand up to Trump’s administration.
“To my colleagues: Do not let this body become a ceremonial red stamp from an administration that takes food away from children and rips away healthcare,” Ms. Sherrill said.
“To the country: Stand strong. As we say in the Navy, don’t give up the ship.”
NO CLEAR WINNER FROM SHUTDOWN
Despite the recriminations, neither party appears to have won a clear victory. A Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Wednesday found that 50% of Americans blamed Republicans for the shutdown, while 47% blamed Democrats.
The vote came on the Republican-controlled House’s first day in session since mid-September, a long recess intended to put pressure on Democrats. The chamber’s return also set the clock ticking on a vote to release all unclassi-fied records related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, something Mr. Johnson and Mr. Trump have resisted up to now.
Mr. Johnson on Wednesday swore in Democrat Adelita Grijalva, who won a September special election to fill the Arizona seat of her late father, Raul Grijalva. She provided the final signature needed for a petition to force a House vote on the issue, hours after House Democrats released a new batch of Epstein documents.
That means that, after performing its constitutionally mandated duty of keeping the government funded, the House could once again be consumed by a probe into Mr. Trump’s former friend whose life and 2019 death in prison have spawned countless conspiracy theories.
The funding package would allow eight Republican senators to seek hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages for alleged privacy violations stemming from the federal investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol by Mr. Trump’s supporters.
It retroactively makes it illegal in most cases to obtain a senator’s phone data without disclosure and allows those whose records were obtained to sue the Justice Department for $500,000 in damages, along with attorneys’ fees and other costs. — Reuters
Holiday test looms as luxury brands chase elusive rebound
PARIS — A surge in luxury stocks has piled pressure on fashion houses including LVMH and Gucci owner Kering to show that signs of recovery in the third quarter can translate into a sustained turnaround in the key holiday season.
Kering’s shares have soared around 49% from three months ago, while Louis Vuitton owner LVMH is up 42%, Moncler up 28%, and Cartier owner Richemont up 27%.
Although some of that is linked to a broader equity market rally, there are also growing hopes among investors that the $400-billion sector is emerging from two years of sliding sales.
Third-quarter results showed some improvement in China — once the key engine of growth — and buzzy design debuts from newly appointed creative directors have buoyed sentiment too.
RISKS FOR THE FOURTH QUARTER
But new styles will not hit the shops until next year and the jury remains out on China’s economic recovery. Spending in another key market — the United States — also remains closely linked to a volatile stock market.
All of that raises the stakes for the December holiday season, which accounts for as much as 30% of annual sales for some brands, according to Vincent Redrado, founder of luxury industry consultancy Digital Native Group.
“I think there’s a risk for the fourth quarter,” said Olivier Abtan, a partner specialized in consumer and retail at consulting firm AlixPartners. “China remains pretty quiet, without a positive evolution — while the United States had a post-election bump last year,” making comparisons tougher.
The prolonged downturn in China has hurt brands with high exposure there, such as Burberry and Gucci, prompting broad overhauls and chief executive officer (CEO) replacements.
Although Louis Vuitton’s Chinese sales turned positive in the third quarter, economic conditions remain challenged, LVMH finance chief Cecile Cabanis told investors in October.
HIGH-END BRANDS FOCUS ON AMERICA
With brands more confident about future US growth, many are expanding there.
Hermes recently opened stores in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Nashville, Tennessee, and is planning more.
LVMH’s Dior inaugurated its first US spa on New York’s Madison Avenue this summer, while Louis Vuitton’s Fifth Avenue flagship has been closed for an extensive refurbishment, with a lavish temporary store opened nearby.
Luxury Parisian department store Printemps, which this year expanded to the US with an upscale outpost in New York, has seen brisk business in Paris, thanks in part to US tourists.
“We’ve had double-digit growth rates since the summer” with some international shoppers, notably from the US and Gulf countries, said Laetitia Henry, CEO of Printemps Haussmann.
“The American clientele has strong buying power.”
But the latest US credit card data from Citi shows that spending on luxury brands fell 3% year on year in October, marking a retreat after three months of improvement, as a government shutdown contributed to consumer jit-ters.
Among industry heavyweights, LVMH, Zegna, Kering and Richemont are most reliant on the US market, while Burberry, Hermes, Moncler and Prada are less exposed, analysts say.
NEW COLLECTIONS OFFER HOPE
Luxury houses are also banking on new creative direction to bring back shoppers turned off by high prices.
Gucci, which has underperformed rivals in recent years, has tested styles from new creative director Demna at some stores even ahead of the designer’s first runway show expected in February.
The strategy seems to be helping, with year-on-year spending at Gucci in the three months to early October showing its best performance versus peers since early 2022, according to Consumer Edge, which analyzes US consumer credit and debit card data.
“There was a pretty meaningful sequential improvement,” said the consultancy’s Michael Gunther.
Louis Vuitton, meanwhile, created a buzz at the end of August by launching new refillable makeup products including lipstick priced at $160 — much higher than Hermes or Chanel, which charge just over $80 and $50, respec-tively.
“It doesn’t really matter that it’s the most expensive lipstick on the planet,” said HSBC analyst Erwan Rambourg.
“What matters is it will bring people in. If you get sticker shock, then it’ll be the sales associate’s job to tell you, ‘okay, you don’t have any interest in the lipstick. Why don’t you look at these sneakers or small leather goods?’ or whatever.” — Reuters
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, OKC Thunder get off to fast start in rout of Los Angeles Lakers
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander had 30 points and nine assists in just three quarters of action to lead the Oklahoma City (OKC) Thunder to a 121-92 home win over the Los Angeles Lakers on Wednesday.
Playing the second night of a back-to-back, the Thunder certainly didn’t look fatigued, reeling off a 23-7 run that started just more than two minutes into the game to take control and continuing to pile on the rest of the way.
Oklahoma City led by as many as 32 in the first half and 37 in the third quarter as all of the Thunder’s starters except for Ajay Mitchell were able to sit out the fourth quarter for the second consecutive night.
The Thunder beat Golden State 126-102 on Tuesday in the first game of the back-to-back.
Oklahoma City has won four consecutive games and 12 of 13 to start the season.
The Thunder excelled defensively even without Luguentz Dort, one of the league’s top defenders.
Luka Doncic never found an offensive rhythm, finishing with a team-high 19 points but going just 7 of 20 from the field and 1 of 7 on 3-pointers with four turnovers. Doncic was minus-31 in nearly 33 minutes.
With the game long decided, Doncic sat out the fourth quarter.
In back-to-back nights, the Oklahoma City held Doncic and Stephen Curry to a combined 30 points on 11-of-33 shooting.
Austin Reaves was just 4 of 12 from the field and missed all five of his shots from beyond the arc as the Lakers finished just 40.3% from the field — a season low — in dropping their second game in the last three after a five-game winning streak.
Los Angeles came into the game leading the NBA in shooting percentage and hadn’t shot worse than 44.6% in a game this season. — Reuters
Crop damage due to typhoons hits P744M
Damage to agriculture caused by Super Typhoon Uwan (international name: Fung-wong) and Typhoon Tino (Kalmaegi) hit P743.83 million, according to the Department of Agriculture (DA).
The DA said its updated estimates for crop damage totaled P188.27 million for Uwan and P555.56 million for Tino.
According to the DA’s Disaster Risk Reduction Management Operations Center, damage from Uwan by volume was 10,839 metric tons (MT) of rice, corn, cassava, high-value crops and livestock, affecting 6,580 farmers.
Uwan affected an estimated 3,905 hectares of farmland in the Ilocos, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, Bicol, and Eastern Visayas regions.
Meanwhile, the DA upgraded its damage estimate for Tino to P555.56 million. This typhoon affected 20,362 farmers and crop volume of 21,971 MT of rice, corn, high-value crops, cassava, livestock and poultry.
Tino affected an estimated 10,634 hectares of farmland in Calabarzon, Mimaropa, the Western, Eastern and Central Visayas, and Northern Mindanao.
The DA said it has prepared P422.8 million in production inputs for affected farmers, in addition to its quick-response funds, which can be tapped for rehabilitation and recovery of affected areas, and indemnification through the Philippine Crop Insurance Corp.
Affected farmers may also apply for zero-interest loans of up to P25,000 under the Survival and Recovery (SURE) Program of the Agricultural Credit Policy Council, payable over three years.
The DA said it has started providing hybrid rice seed and fertilizer to farmers affected by Tino in Palawan, Occidental Mindoro, and Oriental Mindoro.
The DA said it has also started distributing corn seed to farmers in the municipalities of Allacapan, Gattaran and Rizal, Cagayan, which were along the track of Uwan. — Vonn Andrei E. Villamiel
Singapore to trial tokenized bills, bring in stablecoin laws, central bank chief says
SINGAPORE — Singapore’s central bank will hold trials to issue tokenized MAS Bills next year and bring in laws to regulate stablecoins as it presses forward with plans to build a scalable and secure tokenized financial ecosystem, the bank’s top official said on Thursday.
“Tokenization has lifted off the ground. But have asset-backed tokens achieved escape velocity? Not yet,” said Chia Der Jiun, managing director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), a keynote address at the Singapore FinTech Festival.
He said MAS has been working on the details of its stablecoin regulatory regime and will prepare draft legislation, with the emphasis on “sound reserve backing and redemption reliability.”
MAS is also supporting trials under the Bloom Initiative, which explores the use of tokenized bank liabilities and regulated stablecoins for settlement, he added.
“In the CBDC space, I am pleased to announce that the three Singapore banks, DBS, OCBC, and UOB, have successfully conducted interbank overnight lending transactions using the first live trial issuance of Singapore dollar wholesale CBDC,” he said.
A CBDC, or central bank digital currency, is a digital form of central bank money.
MAS will expand trials to include tokenized MAS Bills settled with CBDC, he added.
Mr. Chia said a regulatory guide on tokenized capital markets products will be published this week, and MAS is working with international counterparts to align standards and support adoption. — Reuters
Cy Young: Tarik Skubal wins AL again; Paul Skenes unanimous NL choice
DETROIT Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal won his second consecutive American League (AL) Cy Young Award and Pittsburgh Pirates right-hander Paul Skenes was the unanimous choice for his first National League (NL) Cy Young on Wednesday.
Skubal is the 12th pitcher — and fifth in the American League — to win back-to-back honors. The last pitcher to accomplish that was the New York Mets’ Jacob deGrom in 2018-19, while the most recent AL hurler was the Boston Red Sox’s Pedro Martinez in 1999-2000.
A two-time All-Star, Skubal went 13-6 with an AL-leading 2.21 ERA and 6.5 WAR for pitchers. He led the majors with a 0.891 WHIP, 1.5 walks per nine innings and 7.30 ratio of strikeouts to walks. He totaled 241 strikeouts to 33 walks while pitching 195 1/3 innings over 31 starts.
Skubal received 26 first-place votes and four second-place votes for 198 total points in voting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.
Garrett Crochet of the Red Sox was second with four first-place votes, 26 second-place votes and 132 points. Hunter Brown of the Houston Astros was third with 24 third-place votes and 80 points. Max Fried of the New York Yankees was fourth with six third-place votes and 61 points. Bryan Woo of the Seattle Mariners was fifth with 26 total points.
An All-Star in each of his two seasons, Skenes did not get much run support in 2025, when he was 10-10 with a 1.97 ERA, 42 walks and 216 strikeouts in 187 2/3 innings over 32 starts.
He led the majors in ERA and home runs allowed per nine innings (0.5) while tops in the NL with a 0.948 WHIP.
Skenes, 23, received all 30 first-place votes for 210 points. The Philadelphia Phillies’ Cristopher Sanchez got all 30 second-place votes for 120 points, and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Yoshinobu Yamamoto had 16 third-place votes and 72 points for third. Logan Webb of the San Francisco Giants had 10 third-place votes and 47 points. Freddy Peralta of the Milwaukee Brewers had four third-place votes for 44 points and fifth place.
The 2024 NL Rookie of the Year, Skenes was third in the Cy Young voting that season when he went 11-3 with a 1.96 ERA, 32 walks and 170 strikeouts in 133 innings over 23 starts.
He is the fifth pitcher to collect a Cy Young Award in his first two seasons, joining Fernando Valenzuela of the Dodgers (1981), Bret Saberhagen of the Royals (1984), Dwight Gooden of the Mets (1985) and Tim Lincecum of the Giants (2008).
Pittsburgh selected Skenes first overall in the 2023 Major League Baseball (MLB) Draft out of Louisiana State University.
Skubal won his first Cy Young Award in 2024 when he earned the pitching Triple Crown with 18 victories, a 2.39 ERA and 228 strikeouts in 192 innings over 31 starts.
His career record is 54-37 with a 3.08 ERA, 172 walks and 889 strikeouts in 766 2/3 innings over 137 regular-season games (134 starts) since making his major league debut in 2020.
Detroit selected Skubal in the ninth round of the 2018 draft out of Seattle University. He had Tommy John surgery while in college and dealt with injuries early in his MLB career. — Reuters