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| 1990 | A's hurler Bob Welch (27-6, 2.95, 127) wins the AL Cy Young Award. The 34-year-old right-hander's 27 wins are the most in the majors since 1972, when Steve Carlton won that many for the last-place Phillies. |
| 2012 | Bob Melvin, for the second time in his career, is selected as the Manager of the Year when the Baseball Writers' Association of America names him first on 16 of 28 ballots to narrowly outpoint Buck Showalter of the Orioles, 116-108. The Oakland skipper, the National League's BBWAA managerial award recipient in 2007 with the Diamondbacks, guided the A's to the American League West title before losing Game 5 in the ALCS to Detroit. |
| 2012 | The BBWAA selects Davey Johnson, who led the Nationals to the most victories in the major leagues with a 98-64 record, as the National League Manager of the Year, receiving 23 of the 32 first-place votes cast by the writers. The 69-year-old manager, honored by the BBWAA in 1997 for his managerial skills with the Orioles, joins Bobby Cox (Blue Jays, Braves), Tony La Russa (White Sox and A's, Cardinals), Lou Piniella (Mariners, Cubs), and Jim Leyland (Pirates, Tigers) as the fifth skipper to have won the award in both leagues. |
| 2020 | Freddie Freeman, receiving 28 of 30 of the writer's first-place votes, becomes the first Braves player named the National League's MVP since Chipper Jones won the prestigious award in 1999. After dealing with the debilitating effects of COVID-19 during the team's pre-season summer camp, the 31-year-old first baseman batted .341 and collected 37 extra-base hits, including 13 homers, while playing in the full slate of Atlanta's 60 games. |
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