"he biggest story that season was Mark Fidrych, who didn't make his first start until the middle of May but still went 19-9 and finished second in the Cy Young balloting. Fidrych won 10 more games in his whole career. Sinkerballer Randy Jones did win the Cy Young Award in the other league, and went 42-26 over 1975 and '76; he went 43-69 in the remainder of his career.
Nobody saw Fidrych coming. Jones had an absurdly low strikeout rate, even for that era. In their own ways, both broke the game. Then the game broke them."