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The Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) award given to the most outstanding player in each year's MLB All-Star Game. Awarded each season since 1962, it was originally called the "Arch Ward Memorial Award" in honor of Arch Ward, the man who conceived the All-Star Game.
Five players have won the award twice: Willie Mays (1963, 1968), Steve Garvey (1974, 1978), Gary Carter (1981, 1984), Cal Ripken Jr. (1991, 2001), and Mike Trout (2014, 2015, becoming the only player to win the award in back-to-back years). The award has been shared by multiple players once; Bill Madlock and Jon Matlack shared the award in 1975 ...
April 27 – Dick Groat, 82, shortstop who played 14 seasons for four Major League Baseball teams Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies and San Francisco Giants. He began his career in 1952 with the Pirates but took 2 years off due to military service. He finished his career in 1967 with the Giants.
After seven seasons on the team, he signed the largest contract in Rangers history and took his baseball skills to Texas. Celebrities Attend 2023 MLB World Series Between Texas Rangers and Arizona ...
— MLB (@MLB) July 12, 2023 Díaz entered this season hitting .244/.299/.384 in his career but made the All-Star team after hitting a moderately better .277/.328/.435 in the first half.
Ohtani would finish the month of June by winning his sixth career AL Player of the Week award, surpassing Suzuki for the most by a Japanese-born player, after hitting six home runs with a 1.783 OPS over a seven-day span from June 26 to July 2, 2023, including a career-long 493-foot home run, the longest homer in the 2023 MLB season; [155] as ...
2021 Braves. 2022 Astros. 2023 Rangers. Smith played for all of them. ... Rangers LHP Will Smith becomes 1st player in MLB history to win 3 straight World Series rings with 3 different teams ...
A total of 71 Japanese-born [1] [2] players have played in at least one Major League Baseball (MLB) game. Of these players, twelve are on existing MLB rosters.The first instance of a Japanese player playing in MLB occurred in 1964, when the Nankai Hawks, a Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) team, sent three exchange prospects to the United States to gain experience in MLB's minor league system.