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The Landon Donovan MVP Award is an annual award for Major League Soccer players. It is voted on by media, MLS players, and club management and is given to the player deemed the most valuable player in the league each season. From 1996 to 2007, the award was known as the Honda MLS Most Valuable Player
[6] [7] For the first season in 1992–93, players received a miniature version of the trophy rather than a medal. [ 8 ] As of the end of the 2023–24 season , seven clubs have won the title – Manchester United , Blackburn Rovers , Arsenal , Chelsea , Manchester City , Leicester City and Liverpool – [ 9 ] with 636 medals awarded to 305 ...
Adam Kennedy won the 2002 ALCS MVP when he hit 3 home runs in 1 game; [6] he had hit 7 during the regular season and hit 80 in his 14-year career. [7] From the pitcher's mound, Steve Avery threw 16 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings without giving up a run in the 1991 NLCS, [8] and John Smoltz amassed 19 strikeouts the following year. [9]
From 1987 through 1991, all of the MVPs were pitchers. Since 1995, 30 years ago, pitchers have won the award nine times, the most recent being Stephen Strasburg in 2019. The most uncommon position for an MVP is second baseman, with only Bobby Richardson in 1960 winning at the position. Richardson is also the only MVP to be named from a losing ...
Red Schoendienst, the 1943 MVP, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1989. [9] Hank Sauer, the 1947 winner, was selected as the 1952 National League Most Valuable Player. [10] Tony Martínez won the 1962 International League MVP Award. Don Buford was the first to win the MVP Award and Rookie of the Year in the same season (1963).
Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx was the first player to win three MVP awards. Hall of Famer and two-time MVP Hank Greenberg was the first player to win the award at two different fielding positions (1B and OF). Jim Konstanty, to date the only National League relief pitcher to be named MVP, won it in 1950.
Hampton has hit the most home runs in a pitcher's Silver Slugger-winning season, with seven in 2001. [7] He is tied with Robinson as the leader in runs batted in, with 16 (Hampton, 2001; Robinson, 1982). [7] [10] Zack Greinke leads all Silver Slugger-winning pitchers in on-base percentage with a .409 clip set in 2013. [15]
With 34 wins in 1912, "Smoky Joe" Wood leads the Red Sox for most pitching wins in a season. [154] Dutch Leonard's ERA of 0.96 in the 1914 season remains the best single-season ERA in American League history. [155] Johnny Pesky led the American League in hits for three seasons, two of those seasons he also led MLB in hits.