(Reuters) – List of American League Cy Young Award winners following the naming of Detroit Tigers starter Justin Verlander as the 2011 winner.

2011 – Justin Verlander, Detroit Tigers

2010 – Felix Hernandez, Seattle Mariners

2009 – Zack Greinke, Kansas City Royals

2008 – Cliff Lee, Cleveland Indians

2007 – CC Sabathia, Cleveland Indians

2006 – Johan Santana, Minnesota Twins

2005 – Bartolo Colon, Los Angeles Angels

2004 – Johan Santana, Minnesota Twins

2003 – Roy Halladay, Toronto Blue Jays

2002 – Barry Zito, Oakland Athletics

2001 – Roger Clemens, New York Yankees

2000 – Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox

1999 – Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox

1998 – Roger Clemens, Toronto Blue Jays

1997 – Roger Clemens, Toronto Blue Jays

1996 – Pat Hentgen, Toronto Blue Jays

1995 – Randy Johnson, Seattle Mariners

1994 – David Cone, Kansas City Royals

1993 – Jack McDowell, Chicago White Sox

1992 – Dennis Eckersley, Oakland Athletics

1991 – Roger Clemens, Boston Red Sox

1990 – Bob Welch, Oakland Athletics

1989 – Bret Saberhagen, Kansas City Royals

1988 – Frank Viola, Minnesota Twins

1987 – Roger Clemens, Boston Red Sox

1986 – Roger Clemens, Boston Red Sox

1985 – Bret Saberhagen, Kansas City Royals

1984 – Willie Hernandez, Detroit Tigers

1983 – LaMarr Hoyt, Chicago White Sox

1982 – Pete Vuckovich, Milwaukee Brewers

1981 – Rollie Fingers, Milwaukee Brewers

1980 – Steve Stone, Baltimore Orioles

1979 – Mike Flanagan, Baltimore Orioles

1978 – Ron Guidry, New York Yankees

1977 – Sparky Lyle, New York Yankees

1976 – Jim Palmer, Baltimore Orioles

1975 – Jim Palmer, Baltimore Orioles

1974 – Catfish Hunter, Oakland Athletics

1973 – Jim Palmer, Baltimore Orioles

1972 – Gaylord Perry, Cleveland Indians

1971 – Vida Blue, Oakland Athletics

1970 – Jim Perry, Minnesota Twins

1969 – Mike Cuellar, Baltimore Orioles

Denny McLain, Detroit Tigers

1968 – Denny McLain, Detroit Tigers

1967 – Jim Lonborg, Boston Red Sox

One award for both National and American Leagues

1966 – Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)

1965 – Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)

1964 – Dean Chance, Los Angeles Angels (AL)

1963 – Sandy Koufax, Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)

1962 – Don Drysdale, Los Angeles Dodgers (NL)

1961 – Whitey Ford, New York Yankees (AL)

1960 – Vernon Law, Pittsburgh Pirates (NL)

1959 – Early Wynn, Chicago White Sox (AL)

1958 – Bob Turley, New York Yankees (AL)

1957 – Warren Spahn, Milwaukee Braves (NL)

1956 – Don Newcombe, Brooklyn Dodgers (NL)

(Compiled by Frank Pingue; Editing by Julian Linden)

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Oct 21, 2011 – After one season with the Boston Red Sox, pitching coach Curt Young is leaving to take the same position with the Oakland Athletics according to Jon Morosi of Fox Sports.

After the Red Sox and Terry Francona parted ways, there was speculation that Young — whose pitching staff struggled as the Red Sox lost a nine-game September lead to miss the playoffs — might be the next to go even with one year remaining on his contract. Now we know for sure as he’s been re-signed by the Athletics–an organization Young has been connected to for 27 years. 

Young was taken by Oakland as a player in the fourth round of the 1982 draft. He spent 12 years in the organization as a player, eight as a Minor League coach, and has already spent seven as a Major League pitching coach, bringing up a number of impressive young pitchers with the team. Now, after just one year away, he’ll be back for an eighth.

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Mark Trumbo hit a go-ahead, two-run home run off Rich Harden in the top of the sixth inning, leading the Los Angeles Angels to a 4-1 win over the Oakland Athletics on Wednesday afternoon at Overstock.com Coliseum in Oakland. Jered Weaver allowed one run in seven innings to pick up his 17th victory of the season. The Halos are now two and a half games behind Texas in the American League West, with the outcome of the Rangers’ game against Cleveland Wednesday night pending.

Josh Willingham hit his second home run of the series, a two-run shot off Weaver in the third inning, to give Oakland a 1-0 lead. Bobby Abreu tied the score with an RBI double off Harden in the top of the sixth, and Trumbo followed with his team-leading 27th home run of the season, giving the Angels a 3-1 lead. The Halos added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

Weaver threw 115 pitches in his seven innings of work, allowing just one run, but he also had just one strikeout against two walks. The 17 wins are a new career high for Weaver. Jordan Walden pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his 31st save of the season.

The Angels are off Thursday, but open a three-game series in Baltimore on Friday against the Orioles.

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Toronto Blue Jays’ Ricky Romero struck out six hitters as the Blue Jays defeated the Oakland Athletics Thursday. (Ben Marot/Associated Press)

Ricky Romero pitched as calmly with runners in scoring position as he did with the bases empty.

Not even pitching in front of his father and siblings was enough to rattle the Toronto left-hander, who is in the middle of the finest stretch of his career.

Romero pitched a three-hitter to extend his career-high winning streak to five games and the Blue Jays, getting a big night from Colby Rasmus, beat the Oakland Athletics 7-0 on Tuesday night.

“He pitched like he’s been on the run for the last five or six outings,” Toronto manager John Farrell said. “He was down in the strike zone, he was efficient. When he gets in that rhythm he doesn’t try to do anything more than what the situation’s calling for.”

Romero (12-9) struck out six and walked two while recording his second shutout this season and third of his career. He had to pitch out of a series of jams early then retired the final 13 batters he faced.

He labored at times but worked out of trouble to remain unbeaten in five starts against Oakland.

“Everything feels good right now,” Romero said. “I’m attacking the zone, being consistent with my pitches and not panicking in situations like I had in those first few innings. I feel in control right now.”

Romero pitched out of a two-on, no-out jam in the second then wriggled out of trouble again after Oakland loaded the bases in the third by getting hot-hitting Brandon Allen to foul out to first. Allen, called up from the minors on Saturday, was in a 9-for-16 stretch before popping out.

Romero, who shut out the St. Louis Cardinals on four hits June 6, settled down after that and allowed only one hit the rest of the way. He improved to 4-0 in five career starts against the A’s.

“What he’s done is slow the game down mentally,” Farrell said. “He’s not rushed into any pitches … and in key spots he’s made some big pitches.”

Rasmus homered and scored three times for the Blue Jays. Edwin Encarnacion and Brett Lawrie had RBI singles while Jose Bautista doubled and scored in the fourth when Toronto scored three times off Oakland starter Trevor Cahill to break the game open.

Cahill (9-12) allowed seven runs and nine hits over 5 1-3 innings and lost for the seventh time in his last 10 starts. Since beginning the season 6-0, the right-hander is 3-12 with a 5.30 ERA.

“We’ve had inconsistencies across the board at times so when a guy like him has some struggles, everybody feels it,” Oakland manager Bob Melvin said. “He’s not the only one and it’s not like he’s all the sudden lost his stuff. He’s just having a difficult time being consistent.”

Rasmus, acquired from St. Louis as part of an eight-player trade on July 27, doubled and scored in the second then hit a towering two-run drive off Cahill in the fourth. The home run, Rasmus’ third with Toronto and 14th overall, caromed off a sign hanging from the second deck in right field and gave Toronto a 4-0 lead.

He also singled leading off the sixth for his first three-hit game since the trade.

Before getting to Cahill, Rasmus had been mired in a 16-for-71 funk (.225) with his new club.

Encarnacion, meanwhile, remained one of the hottest hitters in the American League. The Blue Jays designated hitter singled in Bautista in the fourth and scored on Rasmus’ home run. He has reached safely in 17 consecutive games.

Adam Lind added an RBI single off Cahill in the fifth and J.P. Arencibia drove in two runs in the sixth to chase the Oakland right-hander, who is in the worst slump of his career.

The A’s fell to 2-5 on their homestand.