MLB_All-Star_Game_MVP

Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award

Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award

Annual baseball award

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) award that is presented to the most outstanding player in each year's MLB All-Star Game. Awarded each season since 1962 (two games were held and an award was presented to each game winner in 1962), it was originally called the Arch Ward Memorial Award in honor of Arch Ward, the man who conceived of the All-Star Game in 1933. The award's name was changed to the Commissioner's Trophy in 1970 (two National League (NL) players were presented the award in 1975), but this name change was reversed in 1985 when the World Series Trophy was renamed the Commissioner's Trophy. Finally, the trophy was renamed the Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award in 2002, in honor of former Boston Red Sox player Ted Williams, who had died earlier that year.[1] No award was presented for the 2002 All-Star Game, which ended in a tie.[2] Thus, the Anaheim Angels' Garret Anderson was the first recipient of the newly named Ted Williams Award in 2003. The All-Star Game Most Valuable Player also receives a Chevrolet vehicle, choosing between two cars.[3]

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As of 2023, NL players have won the award 28 times (including one award shared by two players), and American League (AL) players have won 33 times. Baltimore Orioles players have won the most awards for a single franchise (with six); players from the Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants are tied for the most in the NL with five each. Five players have won the award twice: Willie Mays (1963, 1968), Steve Garvey (1974, 1978), Gary Carter (1981, 1984), Cal Ripken Jr. (1991, 2001), and Mike Trout (2014, 2015, becoming the only player to win the award in back-to-back years). The award has been shared by multiple players once; Bill Madlock and Jon Matlack shared the award in 1975.[4] Two players have won the award for a game in which their league lost: Brooks Robinson in 1966 and Carl Yastrzemski in 1970.[5][6] One pair of awardees were father and son (Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr.),[7] and another were brothers (Roberto Alomar and Sandy Alomar Jr.).[8] Three players have won the MVP award at a game played in their home ballpark (Sandy Alomar Jr. in 1997, Pedro Martínez in 1999, and Shane Bieber in 2019). 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.

Elías Díaz of the Colorado Rockies is the most recent MLB All-Star Game MVP, winning the award in 2023 and becoming the first Rockie to be named MVP. Only six players have won the MVP award in their only All-Star Game appearance; LaMarr Hoyt, Bo Jackson, J. D. Drew, Melky Cabrera, Eric Hosmer, and Elías Díaz. Only the Chicago White Sox, the Detroit Tigers, the Arizona Diamondbacks, the St. Louis Cardinals and the Washington Nationals (aside from their predecessor the Montreal Expos) have never had a player win the All-Star Game MVP award.

List of winners

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Maury Wills (NL) received the first All-Star Game MVP Award when two All-Star Games were played and two awards (Leon Wagner-AL) were presented as the "Arch Ward Memorial Award" in 1962.
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Brooks Robinson (AL) won the award in 1966, the first of only two times a player from the losing team has won the award.
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Garret Anderson (AL) won the award in 2003, the first year it was presented as the "Ted Williams Most Valuable Player Award".
Brian McCann (NL) won the award in 2010.
Mike Trout (AL) won the award in 2014 and 2015.
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See also

Notes

  1. Two All-Star games were played in 1962.[1]
  2. The 1975 award was shared by two players.[4]
  3. Ripken was elected as an American League All-Star at third base in 2001 but had spent the vast majority of his career at shortstop. Ripken had announced earlier that year that he would retire and Alex Rodriguez, the American League's starting shortstop, switched fielding positions with Ripken in the first inning as homage.[9]
  4. A winner was not chosen in 2002 when the game ended in a tie.[2] Fox broadcasters Joe Buck and Tim McCarver stated that if the National League won, Damian Miller would be named MVP, and if the American League won, Paul Konerko would be named.
  5. The award was not given out as the game was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

References

General
  • "All-Star MVPs". Major League Baseball. Retrieved September 1, 2009.
  • "Post-Season Awards & All-Star Game MVP Award Winners". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved September 1, 2009.
Specific
  1. [1]
    "All Star Game Most Valuable Player Award". Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
  2. [2]
    Adam McCalvy (July 9, 2002). "All-Star Game finishes in tie". Major League Baseball. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
  3. [3]
    Mark Newman (June 16, 2014). "MVP Trout chooses from pair of Chevy vehicles". Major League Baseball. Archived from the original on June 25, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
  4. [4]
    "1975 All-Star Game Box Score". Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
  5. [5]
    "Jul 12, 1966, AL All-Stars at NL All-Stars Box Score and Play by Play". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
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    "Jul 14, 1970, AL All-Stars at NL All-Stars Box Score and Play by Play". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
  7. [7]
    "Ken Griffey Sr." and "Ken Griffey Jr". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
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    "Roberto Alomar" and "Sandy Alomar Jr". Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
  9. [9]
    Anthony McCarron (July 14, 2008). "Alex Rodriguez fondly recalls 2001 All-Star tribute to Cal Ripken Jr". New York Daily News. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
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