Category profile
- Dominance
- 92
- Peak
- 92
- Longevity
- 94
- Honours
- 86
- Statistics
- 98
Career timeline · Home runs per season
| Season | Home runs per season | Share of career |
|---|---|---|
| 1891 | 27 | |
| 1892 | 36 | |
| 1893 | 34 | |
| 1894 | 26 | |
| 1895 | 35 | |
| 1896 | 28 | |
| 1897 | 21 | |
| 1898 | 25 | |
| 1899 | 26 | |
| 1900 | 19 | |
| 1901 | 33 | |
| 1902 | 32 | |
| 1903 | 28 | |
| 1904 | 26 | |
| 1905 | 18 | |
| 1906 | 13 | |
| 1907 | 21 | |
| 1908 | 21 | |
| 1909 | 19 | |
| 1910 | 7 |
Data sources
- MLB
- Baseball Reference
- Olympics.com
Figures come from public records and are normalised per sport. See the methodology for category weights. Method
Why Cy Young ranks #4 in Baseball
Cy Young ranks 4th among Baseball athletes on GOAT Rank and 140th of 1063 across every sport in the index. The published GOAT Score of 92.1 is the weighted result of five verified category scores: Dominance 92, Peak 92, Longevity 94, Honours 86, Statistics 98. Those categories are normalised against the full Baseball reference universe of 262 records, not a shortlist, so the position reflects the whole sport rather than a handful of famous names.
The record covers 1890–1911 with 20 documented competitive seasons. The strongest single season in that series is 1892, which sets the Peak component at 92. Statistics is the defining strength of the profile at 98 out of 100, and it carries 15% of the final score. The underlying career record includes career wins 511, complete games 749, innings pitched 7356, strikeouts 2803.
Immediately ahead sits Ty Cobb on 92.8, a gap of 0.7 points. Directly behind is Sadaharu Oh on 92.6. The position moves whenever the verified record moves: new titles, new seasons or a corrected source all feed straight back into the same formula, and every change is dated on this profile.
Cy Young GOAT Score explained
- Dominance92/100 · weight 25%
- Measures how far Cy Young stood above the field while competing. Scored 92/100 against the full Baseball cohort.
- Peak92/100 · weight 20%
- Rates the best sustained stretch of the career, centred on 1892. Scored 92/100.
- Longevity94/100 · weight 20%
- Rewards staying at that level over time: 21 years of competition and 20 recorded seasons. Scored 94/100.
- Honours86/100 · weight 20%
- Counts documented titles, majors and awards in the verified record. Scored 86/100.
- Statistics98/100 · weight 15%
- Normalises the raw career numbers against everyone in the sport reporting the same metric. Scored 98/100.
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Cy Young — frequently asked
- Is Cy Young the GOAT?
- Not on the current data. Cy Young ranks 4th in Baseball with a GOAT Score of 92.1, behind Hank Aaron on 93.7.
- What is Cy Young's GOAT Score?
- 92.1 out of 100. It is the weighted sum of Dominance 92 (25%), Peak 92 (20%), Longevity 94 (20%), Honours 86 (20%), Statistics 98 (15%), computed from the verified career record.
- Where does Cy Young rank all time?
- 140th of 1063 eligible athletes in the cross-sport index, and 4th within Baseball.
- Cy Young vs Ty Cobb: who ranks higher?
- Ty Cobb, on 92.8 against Cy Young's 92.1 — a margin of 0.7 points.