Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award
Sport | Baseball |
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League | Major League Baseball |
Awarded for | Most outstanding player in the All-Star Game |
Presented by | Major League Baseball |
History | |
First award | 1962 |
Most recent | Elías Díaz (2023) |
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is an annual
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]
As of 2023[update], NL players have won the award 28 times (including one award shared by two players), 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
Year | Links to the article about the corresponding Major League Baseball All-Star Game |
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Player (X) | Denotes winning player and number of times they had won the award at that point |
† | Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum |
^ | Denotes player who is still active |
* | Denotes year in which the award was shared |
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Two All-Star games were played in 1962.[1]
- ^ 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]
- 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 Konerkowould be named.
- ^ 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
- ^ a b "All Star Game Most Valuable Player Award". Baseball-Almanac.com. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
- ^ a b Adam McCalvy (July 9, 2002). "All-Star Game finishes in tie". Major League Baseball. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
- ^ 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.
- Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
- Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
- Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
- Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 31, 2009.
- New York Daily News. Retrieved August 31, 2009.