Rocco Baldelli of the Minnesota Twins was named American League Manager of the Year. This election marks the second time in the AL and the eighth time overall that the award went to someone who was in his first full season as a major league manager. The Rangers’ Jeff Banister…
Yordan Álvarez is the 11th player to win the AL Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year award by a unanimous vote and the first for the Houston Astros. The other unanimous choices: Carlton Fisk, Mark McGwire, Sandy Alomar Jr., Tim Salmon, Derek Jeter, Nomar Garciaparra, Evan Longoria, Mike Trout, Jose…
Pete Alonso of the New York Mets has been named the 2019 National League Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year, marking the sixth time a Mets player has been honored. Previous winners were Tom Seaver in 1967, Jon Matlack in 1972, Darryl Strawberry in 1983, Dwight Gooden in 1984 and…
The BBWAA again released its annual award winners on MLB Network this week. Voting was conducted before the start of the postseason.
The winners of the four annual BBWAA awards will be announced live on MLB Network the week of Nov. 11, 2019. The top three finishers for the awards will be revealed here on Nov. 4. All announcement shows begin at 6 p.m. ET on MLB Network. The full schedule of…
The winners of the annual BBWAA awards, as well as those from the New York chapter, were honored at the annual awards dinner on Jan. 26 in New York. Details on the local chapter’s awards can be found here. Here is a video with some of the highlights, from MLB…
For the first time in the 83 years of Baseball Writers’ Association of America balloting for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, a player has been elected by a unanimous vote. Mariano Rivera, Major League Baseball’s all-time leader in saves, was named on all 425 ballots cast to…
Jayson Stark, who for more than four decades has exhibited passion and humor in equal measure in his baseball coverage, was elected the 2019 winner of the J.G. Taylor Spink Award in balloting by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. He will be honored with the award that is presented…
Major League Baseball’s all-time saves leader, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, two batting champions, a Most Valuable Player Award winner, a multi-record-holding postseason pitcher, a pesky leadoff hitter and an infielder with the highest career fielding percentage at two positions are among 20 new candidates on the 2019 Hall…
Winners of the BBWAA 2018 national awards, and the New York chapter’s local awards, will be honored on Jan. 26, 2019 at the New York Hilton Midtown Hotel. Tickets are available for $275 per person. Tables for up to 12 people can also be reserved. For more information on the…
