After a weekend to digest Edwin Díaz’s three-year deal getting finalized and the Dodgers claiming defensive-specialist Michael Siani off waivers, here are a few more stories to start your week.
The New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America has bestowed a Babe Ruth Award for the postseason MVP annually since 1949. Yoshinobu Yamamoto captured the award this year, per the Associated Press, and will be presented the award in a ceremony on January 24 in New York.
Yamamoto during the
postseason was 5-1 with a 1.45 ERA in six postseason games, including five starts, with 33 strikeouts and six walks in 37 1/3 innings. His complete games in Game 2 of he NLCS and Game 2 of the World Series made him the first major league pitcher with back-to-back postseason complete games in 24 years. He followed his Game 6 win in Toronto with the final eight outs of relief to close out Game 7 on zero days rest, and the first pitcher to win three road games in a single World Series.
Yamamoto is the seventh Dodger to win the Babe Ruth Award, joining Johnny Podres for Brooklyn (1955), Larry Sherry (1959), Sandy Koufax (1963, 1965), Ron Cey (1981), Orel Hershiser (1988), and Mookie Betts (2024).
Tyler Glasnow, a subject of recent rumored trade interest, was a guest on MLB Network Radio’s Sunday Sliders program, and per host Dani Wexelman of Sirius XM said that Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman told Glasnow he isn’t being traded.
