Cy Young played 22 seasons (1890–1911) for Cleveland Spiders, STL, BOS and 2 other clubs. Career regular-season line: a 511–316 record, 2,803 strikeouts and a 2.63 ERA. Mountain Arc career, peaking in 1901. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1937.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
On the MLB Career Dominance board — top-25 in more than one all-time category at once.
Cross-sport prominence: 100.0th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
Historical franchise
No continuous modern successor — attributed to the franchise itself, never folded into a modern club.
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Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
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Fan Rating
Rate Cy Young — All-Time
22 seasons · peak 24.6 in 1901 · league-best seasons: 1892, 1893, 1896, 1899
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
122.9 career wins over 22 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1901 · +9.4 wins
Latest season · 1911 · +0.4 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
Career milestones Cy Young reached that no other MLB player has — each claim is literally true and checkable.
How often Cy Young led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Career arc
Mountain Arc
The classic build → peak → decline arc — rose to a dominant peak, then faded. Peak 1901, 22 rated seasons.
Where Cy Young ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
The season chip above measures Cy Young's single best year. This measures the whole career: every rated season's standing against its own era's peers, summed. A season at the era median adds nothing and a below-median season subtracts — so this number is time spent above your era, not time served.
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Wore 4 distinct franchise crests across 13 seasons (1899–1911) — a true nomad. The crest trail: