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One league was simply not big enough for Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge. For three years, Major League Baseball’s two biggest stars traded off winning the American League Most Valuable Player ...
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.
The LCS MVP was first awarded in 1977 for the National League and in 1980 for the American League. [125] To date, only one World Series MVP has also won the Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award in the same season: Derek Jeter in 2000. An All-Star Game MVP has been named since 1962. [126]
Derek Jeter is the only player to win the All-Star Game MVP and World Series MVP in the same season, doing so in 2000. Among prior MVP winners who are no longer active players, only five won the award in what turned out to be their only All-Star Game appearance; LaMarr Hoyt, Bo Jackson, J. D. Drew, Melky Cabrera, and Eric Hosmer.
Aaron Judge won his second career American League MVP award on Thursday, for a season that might have been even more impressive than the 62-homer campaign that won him his first. The New York ...
After finishing in the top six of AL MVP voting in five of six seasons from 2018 to 2023, Ramirez fell to 10th last year. That might have put him relatively off-the-radar entering 2024, but that ...
A second game was played for four seasons, from 1959 through 1962. The All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award was introduced in 1962 and the first recipient was Maury Wills of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 2008 game featured the longest All-Star Game by time: 4 hours 50 minutes, and tied for innings at 15 with the 1967 game.
Here are the finalists for MLB's postseason awards, the winners of which will be announced next week: AL Rookie of the Year (announced Nov. 18) Austin Wells C, New York Yankees