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Won National League Cy Young Award

Scherzer joined the Washington Nationals in a return to the National League (NL) in 2015. After a solid debut for the team, which resulted in a 2015 season that saw him win 14 games and lose 12 with an ERA of 2.80 and 276 strikeouts, he came back in 2016 even better. A 20–7 win–loss record (for his second career 20-win season) and 284 strikeouts, as well as a sub-1.000 WHIP (0.969) gave him what he needed to lock down the second Cy Young Award of his career and first in the NL. Scherzer would go on to win a consecutive BWAA NL Cy Young Award in the 2017 season.

A video compiled by the Washington Post shows the numbers that helped Scherzer win the 2016 NL Cy Young Award, the first of two NL Cy Youngs he has won in his career.

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