Atlanta Braves pitcher Kyle Wright won't win this year's NL Cy Young Award, but with a win over the Oakland Athletics tonight, he will draw closer to joining a club that has not had many members in recent seasons.
Wright's win last Wednesday against the Colorado Rockies was his 17th of the season, and it gave him sole possession of the top rung on MLB's wins ladder all to himself.
He's only +25000 to win the NL Cy Young, well behind the top four of favorite Sandy Alcantara (-300), Braves teammate Max Fried (+900), Julio Urias (+900), and Zac Gallen (+900), who extended his stellar scoreless streak to 41.1 innings on Sunday.
But that does nothing to diminish the scale of his remarkable turnaround, as he was 2-8 in his first 21 MLB appearances.