1919 Cy Young Awards

1919 American League - Walter Johnson, Washington Senators

20-14, 1.49 ERA, 147 K

It's the sixth such award for Johnson, who was actually better even than his numbers suggest.  Although he won two thirds of the Triple Crown, he finished fifth with 20 wins and a seemingly mediocre win-loss record of 20-14.  However, he did so on a Senators team that finished seventh out of eight teams in the NL, with a 56-84 record.  That means that Johnson alone accounted for 36% of his team's wins.  All of this makes it easy to imagine how good Johnson would've been if he had spent his entire career on contender teams, instead of pitching for a mostly mediocre to poor Senators team for his entire career.

1919 National League - Hippo Vaughn, Chicago Cubs

21-14, 1.79 ERA, 141 K

Hippo Vaughn and Grover Cleveland Alexander, the only two NL pitchers to win a Retroactive Cy Young Award in the past four seasons, were both contenders in 1919, but Vaughn's substantially more innings pitched and substantially more wins gave him the edge over Alexander's marginally better ERA.  Vaughn led in strikeouts, and he also finished second in ERA and wins, the only pitcher to finish in the top three of all three categories.  It was the second year in a row that he was the best in the league, but Vaughn quickly declined; he had a decent 1920 season but was 3-11 with a 6.01 ERA in 1921 and never pitched in the majors again after that.