World Series Most Valuable Player Award information
Major League Baseball award
Willie Mays World Series MVP Award
Johnny Podres was the inaugural winner in 1955 for the Brooklyn Dodgers
Sport
Baseball
League
Major League Baseball
Awarded for
Annual most valuable player of the World Series
Country
United States Canada
Presented by
Major League Baseball
History
First award
1955
Most recent
Corey Seager (Texas Rangers)
The Willie Mays World Series Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is given to the Major League Baseball (MLB) player deemed to have the most impact on his team's performance in the World Series,[1] which is the final round of the 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][3]
On September 29, 2017, it was renamed in honor of Willie Mays in remembrance of the 63rd anniversary of The Catch, which occurred the year before the award's debut;[4] Mays never won the award himself.
Pitchers have been named Series MVP twenty-nine (29) 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. The most recent pitcher to win the award is Stephen Strasburg, who won in 2019.
^Rand, Michael (September 3, 2009). "Thursday (Derek Jeter over Joe Mauer for MVP?) edition: Wha' Happened?". Minneapolis Star-Tribune. Retrieved September 12, 2009.
^Dickson, Paul (2011). The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (Third ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. p. 945. ISBN 9780393073492. Retrieved October 31, 2019. The SPORT Magazine Award, an annual award presented since 1955, originally by SPORT magazine in cooperation with the Chevrolet Motor Co. (the magazine ceased publication in 2000 and is no longer involved with the award).
^"World Series Most Valuable Player Award". Baseball Almanac. Retrieved November 7, 2009.
^Adler, David (September 29, 2017). "World Series MVP Award renamed for Mays". MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
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