CARY, N.C. - Sixteen USA Baseball alumni were announced as Major League Baseball award winners following the 2020 season. Four former national team players were named to the All-MLB First Team, while four were named to the All-MLB Second Team.
Freddie Freeman led the way with four honors last season, including being named the 2020 National League MVP after leading MLB in runs (51), finishing 2nd in MLB in OPS (1.102) and 2nd in the NL in average (.341), OBP (.462) and slugging (.640). He also picked up his second Silver Slugger Award, earned the 2020 Hank Aaron Award, and was named to the All-MLB First Team.
Freeman was joined on the All-MLB First Team by fellow Team USA alums Trevor Bauer, Manny Machado and Mike Trout. With the 2020 honor, Trout became only the second player in MLB history to earn a spot on the First Team for the second year in a row.
Additionally, Bauer earned his first Cy Young Award in 2020, while Nolan Arenado and Alex Gordon both earned the eighth Gold Glove Award of their careers. It was the eighth consecutive time Arenado has won the award and the fourth in a row for Gordon. Arenado also earned his fourth consecutive Platinum Glove Award last year, while Gordon picked up his second since 2014. Kolten Wong also earned a Gold Glove Award following the 2020 season, his second in as many years.
Corey Seager became just the eighth player in MLB history to win the World Series MVP after also earning the honor in the League Championship Series. Seager won the award unanimously after recording a .400/.556/.700 slash line with two home runs in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ six-game championship series win over the Tampa Bay Rays.
The complete list of USA Baseball alumni that earned 2020 MLB Awards is as follows:
- All-MLB 1st Team
- Trevor Bauer
- Freddie Freeman
- Manny Machado
- Mike Trout
- All-MLB 2nd Team
- Gerrit Cole
- Michael Conforto
- Clayton Kershaw
- Corey Seager
- Cy Young
- Trevor Bauer (NL)
- Gold Glove
- Nolan Arenado (NL)
- J.P. Crawford (AL)
- Joey Gallo (AL)
- Alex Gordon (AL)
- Trenton Grisham (NL)
- Evan White (AL)
- Kolten Wong (NL)
- Hank Aaron Award
- Freddie Freeman
- MLB MVP
- Freddie Freeman (NL)
- Platinum Glove
- Nolan Arenado (NL)
- Alex Gordon (AL)
- Silver Slugger
- Freddie Freeman (NL)
- Travis d’Arnaud (NL)
- Manny Machado (NL)
- World Series MVP
- Corey Seager
