Hank Aaron Award

Hank Aaron Award
Hall of Fame inductee Hank Aaron, namesake of the award
Given for	Top hitter in the American League and National League
Presented by	Major League Baseball
History
First award	1999
Most recent	J. D. Martinez (AL) & Christian Yelich (NL)

The Hank Aaron Award is given annually to the Major League Baseball (MLB) players selected as the top hitter in each league, as voted on by baseball fans and members of the media. It was introduced in 1999 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Hank Aaron's surpassing of Babe Ruth's career home run mark of 714 home runs. The award was the first major award to be introduced by Major League Baseball in 19 years.

For the 1999 season, a winner was selected using an objective points system. Hits, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI) were given certain point values and the winner was the player who had the highest tabulated points total.^[1][2]

In 2000, the system was changed to a ballot in which each MLB team's radio and television play-by-play broadcasters and color analysts voted for three players in each league. Their first place vote receives five points, the second place vote receives three points, and the third place vote receives one point. Beginning in 2003, fans were given the opportunity to vote via MLB's official website, MLB.com. Fans' votes account for 30% of the points, while broadcasters' and analysts' votes account for the other 70%.^[1]

The award is handed out to the winners of both leagues before Game 4 of the World Series each year, with Aaron himself presenting the awards.

The first winners of the award were Manny Ramirez and Sammy Sosa in 1999, while the most recent winners are J. D. Martinez and Christian Yelich. Alex Rodriguez won the award four times, the most of any player.^[1] The winner with the most hits was Todd Helton in 2000, Barry Bonds in 2001 had the most home runs, and Manny Ramírez in 1999 had the most RBIs. Players from the Boston Red Sox have won the award five times, the most of any team.

Contents

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  1 Trophy
  


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  2 Key
  


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  3 Winners
  


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  4 See also
  


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  5 References
  


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  6 External links
  

Trophy

The Hank Aaron Award has a maritaca granite base and an antique bat and banner combination on the top. It weighs 12 pounds and sits on a base of cherry wood.

Kris Bryant (far left) and David Ortiz (far right) pose with Hank Aaron (center left) and Rob Manfred (center right) after receiving the 2016 awards

Key

Year	Links to the corresponding Major League Baseball season
Player (X)	Denotes winning player and number of times they had won the award at that point
HR	Home runs
RBI	Runs batted in

Winners

Alex Rodriguez won the award four times.

Barry Bonds won the award three times.

Albert Pujols has won the award twice.

Year	League	Player	Team	Hits	HR	RBI
1999	American	Manny Ramirez	Cleveland Indians	174	44	165
	National	Sammy Sosa	Chicago Cubs	180	63	141
2000	American	Carlos Delgado	Toronto Blue Jays	196	41	137
	National	Todd Helton	Colorado Rockies	216	42	147
2001	American	Alex Rodriguez	Texas Rangers	201	52	135
	National	Barry Bonds	San Francisco Giants	156	73	137
2002	American	Alex Rodriguez (2)	Texas Rangers (2)	187	57	142
	National	Barry Bonds (2)	San Francisco Giants (2)	149	46	110
2003	American	Alex Rodriguez (3)	Texas Rangers (3)	181	47	118
	National	Albert Pujols	St. Louis Cardinals	212	43	124
2004	American	Manny Ramirez (2)	Boston Red Sox	175	43	130
	National	Barry Bonds (3)	San Francisco Giants (3)	135	45	101
2005	American	David Ortiz	Boston Red Sox (2)	180	47	148
	National	Andruw Jones	Atlanta Braves	154	51	128
2006	American	Derek Jeter	New York Yankees	214	14	97
	National	Ryan Howard	Philadelphia Phillies	182	58	149
2007	American	Alex Rodriguez (4)	New York Yankees (2)	183	54	156
	National	Prince Fielder	Milwaukee Brewers	165	50	119
2008	American	Kevin Youkilis	Boston Red Sox (3)	168	29	115
	National	Aramis Ramírez	Chicago Cubs (2)	160	27	111
2009	American	Derek Jeter (2)	New York Yankees (3)	212	18	66
	National	Albert Pujols (2)	St. Louis Cardinals (2)	186	47	135
2010	American	José Bautista	Toronto Blue Jays (2)	148	54	124
	National	Joey Votto	Cincinnati Reds	177	37	113
2011	American	José Bautista (2)	Toronto Blue Jays (3)	155	43	103
	National	Matt Kemp	Los Angeles Dodgers	195	39	126
2012	American	Miguel Cabrera	Detroit Tigers	205	44	139
	National	Buster Posey	San Francisco Giants (4)	178	24	103
2013	American	Miguel Cabrera (2)	Detroit Tigers (2)	193	44	137
	National	Paul Goldschmidt	Arizona Diamondbacks	182	36	125
2014	American	Mike Trout	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	173	36	111
	National	Giancarlo Stanton	Miami Marlins	155	37	105
2015	American	Josh Donaldson	Toronto Blue Jays (4)	184	41	123
	National	Bryce Harper	Washington Nationals	172	42	99
2016	American	David Ortiz (2)	Boston Red Sox (4)	169	38	127
	National	Kris Bryant	Chicago Cubs (3)	176	39	102
2017	American	José Altuve	Houston Astros	204	24	81
	National	Giancarlo Stanton (2)	Miami Marlins (2)	168	59	132
2018	American	J. D. Martinez	Boston Red Sox (5)	188	43	130
	National	Christian Yelich	Milwaukee Brewers (2)	187	36	110

See also

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  Baseball portal
  

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  Silver Slugger Award: given to the best offensive player at each position.


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  Edgar Martínez Award: given to the best designated hitter (DH) (American League).


• Major League Baseball Triple Crown


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  This Year in Baseball Awards (including hitter)


• Baseball awards


• List of Major League Baseball awards


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  Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame (including "500 Homerun Club" exhibit)

References

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  "Hank Aaron Award winners". Major League Baseball. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  


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  "Hank Aaron Award & Branch Rickey Award Winners". Baseball-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  


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  "Hank Aaron Award presentation". Major League Baseball. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
  

Specific

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   ^ ^abc Sanchez, Jessie (2002-10-24). "A-Rod receives Hank Aaron Award". Major League Baseball. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
   


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   ^ "Phillies' Howard, Yankees' Jeter win Hank Aaron Award". ESPN.com. ESPN Internet Ventures. 2006-10-06. Retrieved 2009-05-24.
   

External links

v t e American League Hank Aaron Award
1999: Ramirez 2000: Delgado 2001: Rodriguez 2002: Rodriguez 2003: Rodriguez 2004: Ramirez 2005: Ortiz 2006: Jeter 2007: Rodriguez 2008: Youkilis 2009: Jeter 2010: Bautista 2011: Bautista 2012: Cabrera 2013: Cabrera 2014: Trout 2015: Donaldson 2016: Ortiz 2017: Altuve 2018: Martinez

v t e National League Hank Aaron Award
1999: Sosa 2000: Helton 2001: Bonds 2002: Bonds 2003: Pujols 2004: Bonds 2005: Jones 2006: Howard 2007: Fielder 2008: Ramírez 2009: Pujols 2010: Votto 2011: Kemp 2012: Posey 2013: Goldschmidt 2014: Stanton 2015: Harper 2016: Bryant 2017: Stanton 2018: Yelich

v t e Major League Baseball awards and trophies
Team	Commissioner's Trophy (list of winners) Warren Giles Trophy (NL pennant winners) William Harridge Trophy (AL pennant winners)
Individual	Most Valuable Player (MVP) Cy Young Manager of the Year Rookie of the Year Roberto Clemente Hank Aaron Gold Glove Silver Slugger World Series MVP All-Star Game MVP Rolaids Relief Man Comeback Player of the Year League Championship Series MVP Reliever of the Year Player of the Month Pitcher of the Month Rookie of the Month Player of the Week
Other	Commissioner's Historic Achievement Award
Book:Major League Baseball awards Category:Major League Baseball awards Portal:Baseball

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