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In 1956, the inaugural year of the Cy Young Award, he became the first pitcher to win the National League MVP and the Cy Young in the same season. [2] Newcombe was an excellent hitting pitcher who compiled a career batting average of .271 with 15 home runs and was used as a pinch hitter, a rarity for pitchers. [3]
The MLB MVP has been awarded to a player in each league since 1931. [127] Three players have won a World Series MVP plus two of the above awards in the same season: Sandy Koufax – MLB MVP, Cy Young, and World Series MVP in 1963; Willie Stargell – MLB MVP, LCS MVP, and World Series MVP in 1979
2.21 World Series Most Valuable Player Award. ... 5.4.1 Sid Mercer–Dick Young Player of the Year Award. ... USA Today Cy Young. 2005 – Mariano Rivera ...
But Milwaukee again swept the Cy Young (Vuckovich) and MVP awards that year, this time with two different players. Yount batted .331 with a .957 OPS, posting 29 homers, 46 doubles and a league ...
Since the creation of the Cy Young Award in 1956, he is the only pitcher to win an MVP award without winning a Cy Young in the same year (Don Newcombe, Sandy Koufax, Bob Gibson, Denny McLain, Vida Blue, Rollie Fingers, Willie Hernández, Roger Clemens, Dennis Eckersley, Justin Verlander, and Clayton Kershaw all won a Cy Young award in their MVP ...
The left-handed Hernández had a 13-year career but is mostly known for his role as the closer on one of the most dominant teams in the past 40 years. Willie Hernández, MVP and Cy Young winner ...
The numbers: 31-6, 1.96 ERA, 280 strikeouts, 336 innings. The buzz: No pitcher since has won more games than McLain’s 31, as he took all 20 votes while also winning the AL MVP and a World Series ...
Only two players, both in the American League, have been named Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same year: Fred Lynn in 1975 and Ichiro Suzuki in 2001. The only Rookie of the Year to win the Cy Young Award in the same year was Fernando Valenzuela in 1981. In 1947 and 1948, only one award was given to a single player.