World Series Most Valuable Player Award | |
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Awarded for | Annual Most Valuable Player of the World Series |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Major League Baseball |
First awarded | 1955 |
Currently held by | Madison Bumgarner, 2014 San Francisco Giants |
The World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is given to the player deemed to have the most impact on his team's performance in the World Series,[1] which is the final round of the Major League Baseball (MLB) postseason. The award was first presented in 1955 as the SPORT Magazine Award, but is now decided during the final game of the Series by a committee of reporters and officials present at the game.[2]
The series follows a best-of-seven playoff format, and occurs after the Division Series and the League Championship Series (LCS).[3] It is played by the winners of the National League Championship Series (NLCS) and the American League Championship Series (ALCS).[4] The most recent champions are the San Francisco Giants, who won in the 2014 World Series.
Pitchers have been named Series MVP twenty-seven times; four of them were relief pitchers. Twelve of the first fourteen World Series MVPs were won by pitchers; from 1969 until 1986, the proportion of pitcher MVPs declined—Rollie Fingers (1974) and Bret Saberhagen (1985) were the only two pitchers to win the award in this period. From 1987 until 1991, all of the World Series MVPs were pitchers, and, since 1995, pitchers have won the award nine times. Bobby Richardson of the 1960 New York Yankees is the only player in World Series history to be named MVP despite being on the losing team.
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Winners[edit]
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Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum |
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* | Indicates player also won the LCS MVP Award in the same postseason |
§ | Indicates losing team in the World Series |
^ | Indicates multiple award winners in the same World Series |
(#) | Indicates number of times winning World Series MVP at that point (if he won multiple times) |
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Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum |
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Active player |
* | Indicates player also won the LCS MVP Award in the same postseason |
§ | Indicates losing team in the World Series |
^ | Indicates multiple award winners in the same World Series |
(#) | Indicates number of times winning World Series MVP at that point (if he won multiple times) |
Notes[edit]
- Johnny Podres won the inaugural award in 1955 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Podres, with nine wins and ten losses during the regular season, beat the Yankees twice in the series; both victories were complete games.[5]
- Don Larsen won the 1956 World Series MVP after pitching the only no-hitter in World Series history, in the fifth game of the series; the no-hitter was also a perfect game.[85][86]
- Bobby Richardson won the 1960 World Series MVP while playing for the losing team in the series, the New York Yankees, and had 12 runs batted in, a World Series record;[87] he is also the only second baseman to win the World Series MVP.[88]
- Depending upon definitions, the first non-American to win the award was either Roberto Clemente in 1971 or Pedro Guerrero in 1981.[89]
- In 1977, Reggie Jackson hit three home runs in the deciding game, taking the nickname "Mr. October", in which October is the month of the MLB postseason;[90] Jackson had a total of five home runs in the series, a World Series record.[87]
- Willie Stargell won the 1979 World Series MVP at the age of 39, and is the oldest World Series MVP.[91]
- In 1996, John Wetteland won the World Series MVP, setting a World Series record with four saves.[92]
- Twelve World Series MVPs were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame;[93] Paul Molitor (1993) and Tom Glavine (1995) are the only Hall of Famers to have won the World Series MVP since 1981. Molitor is also the first designated hitter to win the World Series MVP.[88]
- Hideki Matsui, the 2009 winner, batted in six runs in the sixth game of the 2009 World Series, tying Richardson's record of most runs batted in for a single World Series game. Matsui became the first Japanese-born player to win the award, as well as the first player to win it as a full-time designated hitter.[94][95] He is also the only player named both a World Series and a Japan Series MVP.[96]
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- Three players have won the award twice: Sandy Koufax (1963, 1965), Gibson (1964, 1967), and Jackson (1973, 1977); Jackson is the only player to have won the award with two different teams. There have been two occasions on which multiple winners were awarded in the same World Series: Ron Cey, Pedro Guerrero, and Steve Yeager in 1981,[32] and Johnson and Schilling in 2001. The duo of Johnson and Schilling combined for all four of Arizona's wins in the 2001 World Series; Johnson had three of them.[55]
- Twelve of the fifty-eight World Series MVPs have also won the MLB MVP, the Cy Young Award, or the LCS MVP in the same season. Koufax (1963), Frank Robinson (1966), Jackson (1973), Stargell, and Mike Schmidt (1980) are the only players to have won the MLB MVP and the World Series MVP. A total of six players won the Cy Young Award and the World Series MVP in the same season: Bob Turley (1958), Whitey Ford (1961), Koufax (1963, 1965), Bret Saberhagen (1985), Orel Hershiser (1988), and Johnson (2001). Seven players have won the World Series MVP in the same season in which they won the LCS MVP: Stargell (1979), Darrell Porter (1982), Hershiser (1988), Liván Hernández (1997), Cole Hamels (2008), David Freese (2011), and Madison Bumgarner (2014)—all of them were the NLCS MVPs. Koufax (1963) is the only person to have won the Cy Young Award, the MLB MVP, and the World Series MVP in the same season, while Stargell (1979) is the only person to have won the MLB MVP, the LCS MVP and the World Series MVP in the same season. Hershiser (1988) won the Cy Young Award, the LCS MVP and the World Series MVP in the same season.[97][98][99]
See also[edit]
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