Dallas Keuchel was named the American League Cy Young Award winner by the Baseball Writers' Association of America on Wednesday, MLB.com reports.

Keuchel was named the American League Cy Young Award winner by the Baseball Writers' Association of America on Wednesday, MLB.com reports.

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The 27-year-old lefty edged out David Price for the award on the strength of a 20-8 record, 2.48 ERA and 1.02 WHIP over 232 innings. Keuchel improved his strikeout rate from 2014 by more than five percent, while also trimming his walk rate slightly and maintaining a groundball rate over 60 percent. In fact, he led AL qualifiers in groundball rate for a second straight season (61.7%).