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Eastern League Most Valuable Player Award

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Country
  
United States

Currently held by
  
Brock Stassi

First awarded
  
1962

Eastern League Most Valuable Player Award

Awarded for
  
Eastern League's Regular Season MVP

The Eastern League Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual award given to the best player in minor league baseball's Eastern League. In 1962, Jim Ray Hart won the first ever Eastern League MVP Award.

First basemen, with 16 winners, have won the most among infielders, followed by third basemen (8) and second basemen and shortstops (1). Five catchers have also won the award. Three players who won the award were pitchers. Twenty outfielders have won the MVP Award, the most of any position.

Seven players from the Philadelphia Phillies Major League Baseball (MLB) organization have won the MVP Award, more than any other, followed by the Pittsburgh Pirates organization (6); the Cleveland Indians and Montreal Expos organizations (5); the Baltimore Orioles and New York Mets organizations (4); the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Toronto Blue Jays organizations (3); the Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers, and Milwaukee Brewers organizations (2); and the Florida Marlins, Oakland Athletics, San Francisco Giants, and Texas Rangers organizations (1).

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Eastern League Most Valuable Player Award Wikipedia