Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player Award
Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player Award | |
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Description | Pacific Coast League's Regular Season MVP |
Country | United States |
Reward(s) | Charles H. Graham Plaque (formerly a cash reward)[1] |
First awarded | 1927 |
Currently held by | Hunter Renfroe |
The Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual award given to the best player in minor league baseball's Pacific Coast League. Managers from the 16 Pacific Coast League teams vote for the winner of the award, which is then combined with 16 votes from various general managers, broadcasters, and media representatives around the league to determine a winner.[2][3][4] The award was formerly voted upon by writers from The Sporting News.[5][6]
In 1927, Lefty O'Doul won the first ever Pacific Coast League MVP Award.[7] No player was selected from 1928 to 1931. In 1932, the award returned, going to Jigger Statz. For six seasons in the 1970s (1973, 1975–79) the award was suspended. In 1948, Charlie Graham donated a plaque, which was named in his honor, to be awarded annually to the league's MVP.[1][8]
First basemen, with 21 winners, have won the most among infielders, followed by third basemen (6), second basemen (3), and shortstops (3). Eight players who won the award were catchers. Twenty-eight outfielders have won the MVP Award, the most of any position. A total of 11 pitchers have won the MVP Award, all of them being right-handed. The last pitcher to win was Steve Mintz in 1996. The Pacific Coast League now has a Pitcher of the Year Award, which was established in 2001. Steve Bilko has the record for most MVP Award wins with three (1955–57).[9] Sandy Alomar, Jr., and Les Scarsella have both won the MVP Award twice. Scarsella first won the award in 1944 as a first baseman and then won his second in 1946 as an outfielder.
Two Pacific Coast League MVP Award winners, Joe DiMaggio and Tony Pérez, have gone on to be inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.[10] Seven players each from the Los Angeles Angels and the Las Vegas Stars/51s have been selected for the MVP Award, more than any other teams in the league, followed by the Albuquerque Dukes and San Diego Padres (6); the Hollywood Stars (5); the Oakland Oaks, Sacramento River Cats, San Francisco Seals, and Spokane Indians (4); the Calgary Cannons, Salt Lake City Stingers/Bees, Seattle Rainiers, and Tucson Toros/Sidewinders (3); the Edmonton Trappers, Fresno Grizzlies, Iowa Cubs, Oklahoma City 89ers/Oklahoma RedHawks, Phoenix Firebirds, Reno Aces, and Sacramento Solons (2); and the Albuquerque Isotopes, El Paso Chihuahuas, Eugene Emeralds, Indianapolis Indians, Omaha Royals, Tacoma Giants, and the Tulsa Oilers (1).
Thirteen players from the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers Major League Baseball (MLB) organization have won the MVP Award, more than any other, followed by the Chicago Cubs organization (9); the San Diego Padres organization (5); the Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics, and San Francisco Giants organizations (4); the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates, Seattle Mariners, and St. Louis Cardinals organizations (3); the Anaheim/California Angels, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, and Toronto Blue Jays organizations (2); and the Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Royals, and New York Yankees organizations (1). Thirteen MVP Award winners were not members of any MLB organization.
Key
Year | Links to an article about the corresponding year in baseball |
Position | Indicates the player's primary position |
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Number of wins by players who have won the award multiple times |
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Member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum[10][11] |
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Denotes player who is still active |
Winners
![Frank "Lefty" O'Doul in a New York Yankees uniform.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Lefty-odoul.jpg/220px-Lefty-odoul.jpg)
![Joe DiMaggio at the 1937 Major League Baseball All-Star Game](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bd/DiMaggio_cropped.jpg/220px-DiMaggio_cropped.jpg)
![Dick Hall in a Baltimore Orioles baseball cap, undated](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Dick_Hall.jpg/220px-Dick_Hall.jpg)
![Tony Pérez at the 2008 All-Star Game Red Carpet Parade](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Tony_Perez_All_Star_Parade_2008.jpg/220px-Tony_Perez_All_Star_Parade_2008.jpg)
![Dan Johnson in a batting helmet as a member of the Yokohama BayStars in 2009.](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/YB-Dan-Johnson.jpg/220px-YB-Dan-Johnson.jpg)
![Joc Pederson at bat](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Joc_Pederson.jpg/220px-Joc_Pederson.jpg)
See also
- International League Most Valuable Player Award
- Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
- Baseball awards#U.S. minor leagues
References
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