Award week ends with Mike Trout, Cody Bellinger winning MVPs
The BBWAA again released its annual award winners on MLB Network this week. Voting was conducted before the start of the postseason.
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…
Mariano Rivera unanimously elected to Hall of Fame, along with Roy Halladay, Edgar Martinez and Mike Mussina
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 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…
Mariano Rivera, Roy Halladay, Andy Pettitte, Todd Helton among newcomers on ’19 Hall of Fame ballot
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…
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…
Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich is nearly unanimous as MVP in first season after trade
Christian Yelich is the ninth player overall and the second in the NL to be named MVP in his first season with a club after being traded. The other such NL winner was Braves third baseman Bob Elliott in 1947. Players who did so in the AL were Tigers catcher-manager…
Mets’ ace Jacob deGrom rolls to landslide victory for Cy Young Award on the strength of 1.70 ERA
Jacob deGrom, whose won-lost record was 10-9, had the fewest victories for a Cy Young Award-winning starting pitcher in a full season. The previous low was 13 by the Mariners’ Felix Hernandez in the AL in 2010. The Dodgers’ Fernando Valenzuela was also a 13-game winner in the NL in…