Panel of Seven Former Relief Pitchers
Select Winners for Sixth-Straight Year
Brewers Closer Picks Up Second Consecutive
Trevor Hoffman NL Award, Yankees All-Star Receives Mariano
Rivera AL Award
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JOSH HADER, AROLDIS CHAPMAN NAMED 2019
RELIEVERS OF THE YEAR PRESENTED BY THE HARTFORD
Panel of Seven Former Relief Pitchers
Select Winners for Sixth-Straight Year
Brewers Closer Picks Up Second Consecutive
Trevor Hoffman NL Award, Yankees All-Star Receives Mariano
Rivera AL Award
Josh Hader of the Milwaukee Brewers is the recipient of the 2019
Trevor Hoffman National League Reliever of the Year Award, while
Aroldis Chapman of the New York Yankees has earned the 2019 Mariano
Rivera American League Reliever of the Year Award, Major League
Baseball and presenting sponsor The Hartford announced today. This
is Hader’s second consecutive season winning the award, joining
Craig Kimbrel and Kenley Jansen as the only two-time winners.
Balloting for the Rivera and Hoffman Awards, which debuted in
the 2014 season, was conducted among a panel of seven all-time
great relievers in order to determine the recipients. Rivera and
Hoffman, both of whom spent their entire careers in the same League
en route to the top of the all-time saves list, were joined as
voters by three fellow Hall of Fame relief pitchers – Dennis
Eckersley, Rollie Fingers and Lee Smith – as well as John Franco
and Billy Wagner. The seven voters ranked the top three AL relief
pitchers and the top three NL relief pitchers based solely on
regular season performance, using a 5-3-1 weighted point
system.
“Winning NL Reliever of the Year for the second time is an honor
that I don’t take for granted,” said Hader. “It is especially
humbling when you consider the panel of all-time greats who vote on
the award. I want to thank Craig Counsell, my coaches, and
especially my teammates, without whom I would not be in this
position. I also want to thank the passionate Brewers fans, who
have always been very supportive.”
“For me to receive this award is an honor because of how much it
means to us relievers,” said Chapman. “This is my first time
winning this award, but what makes it really special is having the
opportunity to wear the same uniform and to pitch from the same
mound as Mariano Rivera.”
Hader posted a 2.62 ERA in his 61 games in 2019 and struck out
138 batters – the most of any reliever in MLB for a second straight
year. In his 75.2 innings, he surrendered only 41 hits and 20
walks, limiting opponents to a .155 batting average. Hader averaged
16.4 strikeouts per nine innings pitched. The 37 saves by the
second-time All-Star in 2019 were tied with Chapman for the third
most in the Majors and set a new franchise mark by a left-hander.
He was the NL Reliever of the Month presented by The Hartford for
both May (10 G, 0.71 ERA, 6 saves, 12.2 IP, 21 SO, .098 batting
average against) and June (9 G, 0.68 ERA, 7 saves, 13.1 IP, 25 SO,
.050 batting average against). Only eight of the 33 baserunners he
inherited came around to score. Since the start of the 2018
campaign, Hader leads the Major Leagues with 16 saves of at least
2.0 innings, including nine such saves in 2019. The Brewers posted
a 51-10 record in the games in which Hader pitched.
Chapman collected 37 saves with a 2.21 ERA in his 60 relief
appearances in the 2019 regular season, along with a 3-2 record.
The southpaw registered 85 strikeouts in 57.0 innings pitched,
allowing 38 hits and 25 walks. He was the AL Reliever of the Month
presented by The Hartford for both May and August, the latter of
which included 11.0 scoreless innings. The six-time All-Star in his
10 Major League seasons averaged more than 13.4 strikeouts per nine
innings pitched in 2019, fanning 36.2% of the batters he faced. The
Cuba native earned his first career All-Star Game save in the 2019
Midsummer Classic in Cleveland. He has averaged 14.84 strikeouts
per nine innings in his career (535.2 IP, 883 SO), the best ratio
in the Major Leagues since at least 1900 for all pitchers with at
least 300.0 innings pitched. The 2019 season marked Chapman’s
eighth consecutive year with more than 20 saves and his seventh
with more than 25. Chapman has the most strikeouts (864) of any
reliever in Baseball since 2011, his first full season in the
Majors.
The NL relievers who were the runners-up are All-Stars Kirby
Yates (1.19 ERA, 60 games, MLB-high 41 saves, 60.2 IP, 41 H, 13 BB,
101 SO) of the San Diego Padres and Will Smith (6-0, 2.76 ERA, 63
games, 34 saves, 65.1 IP, 46 H, 21 BB, 96 SO) of the San Francisco
Giants. The AL relievers who were the runners-up are All-Star Liam
Hendriks (4-4, 1.80 ERA, 75 games, 25 saves, 85.0 IP, 61 H, 21 BB,
124 SO) of the Oakland Athletics and Roberto Osuna (4-3, 2.63 ERA,
66 games, AL-high 38 saves, 65.0 IP, 45 H, 12 BB, 73 SO) of the
Houston Astros.
The Rivera and Hoffman Awards replaced MLB’s “Delivery Man of
the Year Award,” which was presented to one winner in all of Major
League Baseball from 2005-2013. These awards have continued a
longstanding baseball tradition of honoring the game’s top relief
pitchers. The previous winners have been:
Year
Rivera AL Reliever of the
Year
Hoffman NL Reliever of the
Year
2014
Greg Holland, Kansas City
Royals
Craig Kimbrel, Atlanta Braves
2015
Andrew Miller, New York
Yankees
Mark Melancon, Pittsburgh
Pirates
2016
Zach Britton, Baltimore
Orioles
Kenley Jansen, Los Angeles
Dodgers
2017
Craig Kimbrel, Boston Red Sox
Kenley Jansen, Los Angeles
Dodgers
2018
Edwin Díaz, Seattle Mariners
Josh Hader, Milwaukee Brewers
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