Articles by Jeff Fletcher

2019 Winners to be revealed on MLB Network

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…


Award winners honored at dinner in New York

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…



Jayson Stark honored with Spink Award

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…



Tickets available for 2019 Awards dinner

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…


Batting champ Mookie Betts wins AL MVP

Mookie Betts was elected the American League MVP, marking the 11th time a Red Sox player was honored. The others were Ted Williams in 1946 and 1949, Jimmie Foxx in 1938, Jackie Jensen in 1958, Carl Yastrzemski in 1967, Fred Lynn in 1975, Jim Rice in 1978, Roger Clemens in…




Rays’ Blake Snell wins tight race for AL Cy Young

Blake Snell is the second Tampa Bay Rays pitcher to win the Cy Young Award. David Price won the award in 2012. Snell’s 180 2/3 innings pitched were the fewest for a Cy Young Award-winning starting pitcher in a full season. Verlander, who won the award in 2011, became the…