Majors: Awards: Player Of The Year

2011 Major League Player Of The Year: Matt Kemp
Oct. 14, 2011
Matt Kemp batted .324/.399/.586 and led the National League with 39 home runs, 126 RBIs, 115 runs scored and 353 total bases. He made his first all-star team. He stole 40 bases in 51 attempts.The 27-year-old Kemp performed so well, in fact, that he won the Baseball America Major League Player of the Year award. [...] Continue Reading »

Major League Player Of The Year: Roy Halladay
Oct. 27, 2010
Roy Halladay got our attention with a perfect game in May. He solidified his spot in the record books five months later with just the second no-hitter in postseason history. [...] Continue Reading »

Mauer's Amazing Season Earns Player Of The Year Nod
Oct. 29, 2009
Joe Mauer is more than the heartbeat of the Twins, the frontrunner for the American League Most Valuable Player award and Baseball America's 2009 Major League Player of the Year. In this most impressive and illustrious of seasons, he's the poster boy for the phrase, "All's well that ends well." [...] Continue Reading »

Sabathia Earns Player Of The Year Nod
Oct. 22, 2008
Lefthander C.C. Sabathia, who led the Milwaukee Brewers to the postseason for the first time since 1982 after a midseason trade, is Baseball America's 2005 Major League Player of the Year, as selected by the magazine's staff. [...] Continue Reading »

Big Man, Big Results
Oct. 22, 2008
C.C. Sabathia cost the Brewers a lot in a June trade, but our 2008 Major League Player of the Year paid the Brewers back by carrying them to the playoffs. [...] Continue Reading »

Turning Over A New Lee-f
Oct. 22, 2008
Cliff Lee had his mind set. He was not going back to the minor leagues. "I absolutely have no desire to pitch in Buffalo ever again,'' the Cleveland Indians lefthander defiantly said in spring training as the 2008 season got under way, promptly drawing the line in the sand. He was a new Lee, and this was a new season. [...] Continue Reading »

2007 Major League Player Of The Year: Alex Rodriguez
Oct. 29, 2007
Alex Rodriguez' outstanding season has earned him his third Baseball America Player of the Year award. [...] Continue Reading »

Supernatural: Santana Proves Unittable
Oct. 20, 2006
Johan Santana's dominance in 2006 earns him Baseball America's 2006 Major League Player of the Year Award. [...] Continue Reading »