The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award ( MVP ) is an annual Major League Baseball (MLB) award given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League . The award has been presented by the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) since 1931.
31-403: Hoiles is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Chris Hoiles (born 1965), American baseball player John Hoiles (disambiguation) , multiple people Stephen Hoiles (born 1981), Australian rugby union footballer Raymond C. Hoiles (1878–1970), American newspaper owner [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
62-519: A designated hitter , a position that normally does not contribute on defense. In 2024, after winning his third career unanimously MVP award, Ohtani became the first MVP winner to have played exclusively as a designated hitter in a given season. To date, Ohtani is the only player to win both the MVP and the Edgar Martínez Award , an award usually given to the top-performing designated hitter in
93-559: A .585 slugging percentage. He ranked fifth in the American League in slugging percentage and in on-base percentage, and finished in 16th place in balloting for the 1993 American League Most Valuable Player Award . By early 1996 , Hoiles' offensive production had diminished to the point to where the Orioles tried to drop him from the team by exposing him through waivers, but he managed a comeback. On May 17, 1996, Hoiles joined
124-657: A baseball coach . He later became a baseball coach at Bowling Green State University . He was inducted to the Eastern Michigan University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2000. Hoiles was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame on August 26, 2006. On December 20, 2006, Hoiles was named as the first manager of the York Revolution of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball . He led
155-488: A catcher and ended the year with a league-leading .998 fielding percentage, becoming the fifth rookie catcher in major league baseball history to win a fielding title. Hoiles had his best season offensively in 1993 , hitting for a .300 batting average at mid-season. Cito Gaston , the American League manager for the 1993 All-Star Game held in Baltimore, received criticism for naming Oakland catcher Terry Steinbach as
186-614: A clear-cut definition of what "most valuable" means, instead leaving the judgment to the individual voters. In 1944, the award was named after Kenesaw Mountain Landis , the first Commissioner of Baseball , who served from 1920 until his death on November 25, 1944. Formally named the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, that naming appeared on a plaque given to winning players. Starting in 2020, Landis' name no longer appears on
217-457: A reserve player instead of hometown favorite Hoiles. Both players were hitting .300, but Hoiles had 18 home runs compared to Steinbach's seven. Gaston explained that he was forced by Major League Baseball rules to name at least one Oakland player to the All-Star team. Hoiles finished the season with a .310 batting average along with 29 home runs, 80 runs batted in, a .416 on-base percentage and
248-519: A season. Ironically, there was no award given by either league in 1930, which meant that one of the single greatest performances ever went unheralded when Hack Wilson of the Chicago Cubs set the (still standing) MLB record for RBI with 191. He also batted .356 and set the NL record with 56 HRs, a record which stood for 68 years until Sammy Sosa (66) and Mark McGwire (70) both eclipsed him. Before
279-476: A single MVP award before it was dropped after 1928. The National League award, without these restrictions, lasted from 1924 to 1929. The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) was first awarded the modern MVP after the 1931 season , adopting the format the National League used to distribute its league award. One writer in each city with a team filled out a ten-place ballot, with ten points for
310-531: A ten-year major league career, Hoiles played in 894 games, accumulating 739 hits in 2,820 at-bats for a .262 career batting average along with 151 home runs, 449 runs batted in and an on-base percentage of .366. He led American League catchers four times in fielding percentage and ended his career with a .994 average, which was .004 above the league average during his playing career. His .994 career fielding percentage ranks ninth all-time among Major League catchers. Hoiles' career .837 on-base plus slugging percentage
341-643: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Chris Hoiles Chris Allen Hoiles (born March 20, 1965) is an American former professional baseball player and coach . He played his entire Major League Baseball career as a catcher for the Baltimore Orioles from 1989 to 1998. Although his playing career was shortened by injuries, Hoiles was considered one of the best all-around catchers in Major League Baseball, performing well both offensively and defensively. He
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#1732800925952372-667: Is seventh-highest all time among major league catchers. His .467 slugging percentage is 11th highest all-time among major league catchers. His 151 career home runs rank 12th highest in Orioles team history. Hoiles was the Orioles' catcher on July 13, 1991, when four Orioles pitchers combined to pitch a no-hitter . In a game against the Kansas City Royals on April 9, 1998, Hoiles set a major league record for catchers by being involved in four double plays in one game. After his playing career, Hoiles returned to his alma mater, Eastern Michigan University , where he served as
403-610: The 1910 season , Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season. The 1910 race for best average in the American League was between the Detroit Tigers ' widely disliked Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie of the Cleveland Indians . On the last day of the season, Lajoie overtook Cobb's batting average with seven bunt hits against
434-714: The 1996 American League Championship Series . In 1997 , Hoiles played the entire season without committing an error, leading American League catchers with a 1.000 fielding percentage, as the Orioles went on to win the American League East Division title. The Orioles defeated the Seattle Mariners in the first round of the playoffs, before losing to the Cleveland Indians in the 1997 American League Championship Series . On August 14, 1998 , at Jacobs Field in Cleveland, Hoiles became
465-494: The 2003 Texas Rangers and 1987 Chicago Cubs , respectively. Barry Bonds has won the most often (seven times) and the most consecutively (four from 2001 to 2004). Jimmie Foxx was the first player to win multiple times – 10 players have won three times, and 19 have won twice. Frank Robinson and Shohei Ohtani are the only players to win the award in both the American and National Leagues. The award's only tie occurred in
496-606: The National League in 1979, when Keith Hernandez and Willie Stargell received an equal number of points. There have been 23 unanimous winners, who received all the first-place votes. The New York Yankees have the most winning players with 24, followed by the St. Louis Cardinals with 21 winners. The award has never been presented to a member of the following three teams: Arizona Diamondbacks , New York Mets , and Tampa Bay Rays . In recent decades, pitchers have rarely won
527-471: The St. Louis Browns . American League President Ban Johnson said a recalculation showed that Cobb had won the race anyway, and Chalmers ended up awarding cars to both players. In the following season , Chalmers created the Chalmers Award. A committee of baseball writers was to convene after the season to determine the "most important and useful player to the club and the league". Since the award
558-409: The surname Hoiles . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hoiles&oldid=1213182597 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
589-404: The 1996 season with 25 home runs and 73 runs batted in to help the Orioles finish in second place in the American League East Division and capture the wild card berth, the Orioles' first postseason berth since winning the 1983 World Series . The Orioles went on to defeat the Cleveland Indians in the first round of the playoffs, before losing to the eventual world champion New York Yankees in
620-698: The Baltimore Orioles and their minor league affiliates. Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award Since 1931, the Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) has bestowed a most valuable player award to a player in the National League and a player in the American League . Before 1931, two similar awards were issued—the League Award was issued during 1922–1928 in the American League and during 1924–1929 in
651-543: 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 seasons). Ohtani is also the only MVP winner to have played most of his games as
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#1732800925952682-502: The MVP plaque after the BBWAA received complaints from several former MVP winners about Landis' role against the integration of MLB . First basemen , with 35 winners, have won the most MVPs among infielders , followed by second basemen (16), third basemen (15), and shortstops (15). Of the 25 pitchers who have won the award, 15 are right-handed while 10 are left-handed . Walter Johnson , Carl Hubbell , and Hal Newhouser are
713-519: The National League, and during 1911–1914, the Chalmers Award was issued to a player in each league. Criteria and a list of winners for these two earlier awards are detailed in below sections. MVP voting takes place before the postseason , but the results are not announced until after the World Series . The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961. The BBWAA does not offer
744-604: The age of 24, but appeared in only six games with the Orioles, as he spent most of the season in the minor leagues with the Rochester Red Wings . He appeared in 23 games with the Orioles in 1990 , but once again spent most of the season playing in Rochester. Hoiles returned to the major leagues in 1991 when the Orioles traded away catcher Mickey Tettleton and gave Hoiles an opportunity to be their starting catcher. He made only one error in 89 games played as
775-502: The award. When Shohei Ohtani won the AL award in 2021, he became the first pitcher in either league to be named the MVP since Clayton Kershaw in 2014, and the first in the American League since Justin Verlander in 2011. Ohtani also became the first two-way player to win the award and in 2023, he became the first player in MLB history to win MVP by unanimous vote twice. Since the creation of
806-417: The list of 23 major league players who have hit an ultimate grand slam when he hit a grand slam in the bottom of the ninth inning with the Orioles down by three runs against the Seattle Mariners . Hoiles' feat was rare, in that he hit his home run on a full count with two outs, only the second time in major league history this has ever been recorded (the first was by Alan Trammell in 1988 ). Hoiles ended
837-452: The ninth player and the first catcher in major league history to hit two grand slams in one game . He played in his final major league game on September 27, 1998 at the age of 33. By the beginning of 1999, the 34-year-old Hoiles was hampered by injuries that included a degenerative hip and a bad back. On May 1, 1999, the Orioles announced that Hoiles had been placed on waivers, but had been offered another job within their organization. In
868-466: The only pitchers who have won multiple times, with Newhouser winning consecutively in 1944 and 1945. Hank Greenberg , Stan Musial , Alex Rodriguez , and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions. Rodriguez and Andre Dawson are the only players to win the award while on a last-place team,
899-475: The team to the playoffs, after winning the Freedom Division in the second half of the 2008 season. He stepped down as the manager on August 5, 2009, citing personal reasons. In April 2010, along with Adam Gladstone, Hoiles began his professional radio career as co-host of "Bird Talk," a daily baseball show heard on Baltimore's Fox 1370. The show is a baseball-oriented talk show focusing primarily on
930-459: Was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame in 2006. Hoiles was drafted by the Detroit Tigers in the 19th round of the 1986 Major League Baseball draft . He played in the Tigers' minor league system until 1988, when he was traded with Cesar Mejia and Robinson Garces to the Baltimore Orioles for Fred Lynn . Hoiles made his major league debut with the Orioles on April 25, 1989 , at
961-606: Was not as effective at advertising as Chalmers had hoped, it was discontinued after 1914. In 1922, the American League created a new award to honor "the baseball player who is of the greatest all-around service to his club". Winners, voted on by a committee of eight baseball writers chaired by James Crusinberry , received a bronze medal and a cash prize. Voters were required to select one player from each team, and player-coaches and prior award winners were ineligible. Famously, these criteria resulted in Babe Ruth winning only