Articles by Jeff Fletcher

Fourteen newcomers join 2025 Hall of Fame ballot

Two players who matched records for winning both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player Awards, two former Cy Young Award winners and two former batting champions are among a group of 14 new candidates appearing on the 2025 National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot that is being mailed…


2024 award winners to be announced on MLB Network

Once again, the winners of the BBWAA awards will be announced live on MLB Network. The winners will be announced in according to the schedule below. Each announcement show begins at 6 p.m. ET. The top three finishers for each award are listed alphabetically below. Voting took place before the…


Adrián Beltré, Todd Helton, Joe Mauer elected to Baseball Hall of Fame

Adrián Beltré, a five-time Gold Glove winner and four-time Silver Slugger recipient at third base, and former batting champions Todd Helton and Joe Mauer were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Tuesday in the 80th balloting conducted by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America and tabulated by Ernst…


Gerry Fraley to be honored posthumously with BBWAA Career Excellence Award

The late Gerry Fraley, whose writing style was crisp, insightful, and punchy, matching his feistytemperament, was elected the 2024 winner of the BBWAA Career Excellence Award. He will be honoredwith the award that is presented annually to a sportswriter “for meritorious contributions to baseballwriting” during the National Baseball Hall of…


Twelve newcomers join 2024 Hall of Fame ballot

A former Most Valuable Player Award winner and three-time batting champion, another batting titlist, three MVP runners-up, a Cy Young Award winner, a World Series home-run record holder and the only pitcher to total double-digit complete games in a season this century are among a group of 12 new candidates…


Braves’ outfielder Ronald Acuña unanimously wins NL MVP Award

Ronald Acuña Jr. of the Braves unanimously won the NL MVP Award, marking the first time in BBWAA voting for Most Valuable Player dating to 1931 that the winners in both leagues were unanimous selections. Acuna is the eighth unanimous winner in the NL, joining Orlando Cepeda (1967), Mike Schmidt…



Yankees’ Gerrit Cole wins Cy Young unanimously

Yankees’ right-hander Gerrit Cole unanimously won the American League MVP Award, marking the 11th time an AL pitcher has swept the voting. The others were Justin Verlander in 2011 and 2022, Johan Santana in 2004 and 2006, Pedro Martinez in 1999 and 2000, Roger Clemens in 1986 and 1998, Ron…


Padres’ Blake Snell adds an NL Cy Young Award to his AL honor from 2018

Padres’ left-hander Blake Snell, a previous winner in the American League with the Rays in 2018, won the National League Cy Young Award. He joined the company of Roger Clemens, Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Max Scherzer, Gaylord Perry and Roy Halladay as Cy Young Award winners in both leagues. Clemens…