Babe Ruth Award
The Babe Ruth Award is an award given to the Major League Baseball player with the best performance in the Postseason.
The award was created by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America in 1948. It was named for Babe Ruth, a New York Yankees legend who died in the previous year. It preceded the official World Series MVP Award by seven years and was typically presented several weeks after the Series. Luis Tiant was the only player on the losing team to win the award for the Boston Red Sox in 1975.
Starting in 2007, the Award was modified to cover the entire postseason that year, and not just the World Series, as the much more prestigious and mediatized World Series MVP Award - since renamed the Willie Mays Award, covered that ground much better. Still, the award remains a curiosity that receives almost no media coverage.
After the award's change of focus, it was shared between two players for the second time in 2017, and in 2020 Randy Arozarena became just the second player to win the award with a team that did not win the World Series that year.
Award Winners[edit]
Award Winners since the award was reconfigured to cover the entire postseason
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