The Warren Spahn Award is a baseball trophy. It will annually since 1999 by the Oklahoma Sports Museum at the best left-handed pitcher (dt. Throwers of) Major League Baseball (MLB) award. It is named after pitcher Warren Spahn , who died in 2003 and was the most victorious left-handed pitcher in MLB history with 363 wins at the time of the first award. The trophy was created in 1999 by the founder of the Oklahoma Sports Museum Richard Hendricks in honor of Spahn to honor one of the best athletes in the state of Oklahoma . After his active career, Spahn lived in Oklahoma until his death. Since 2009, the award has been presented every January at the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City . The winner is selected based on wins, the earned run average and strikeouts thrown . Record winners are Randy Johnson and Clayton Kershaw . Both have received four awards each, with Johnson winning the award four times in a row.
The trophy was designed by the artist Shan Gray in collaboration with Spahn. It has a bell-shaped, black and gold marble base on which a bronze figure of Spahn is in the throwing motion . Spahn wears a jersey from the Braves , for which he was active for 20 years. The base has a height of approx. 29 cm. The figure of Spahn is approx. 42 cm high. The total height of the trophy is thus approx. 71 cm, with a weight of almost 17 kg. The trophy was valued at $ 15,000 in 1999.
So far, twelve different pitchers have received the Warren Spahn Award. In 2008, CC Sabathia moved in the current season from the Cleveland Indians from the American League to the National League to the Milwaukee Brewers . In addition to the Warren Spahn Award, Randy Johnson (1999–2002), Johan Santana (2004, 2006), CC Sabathia (2007), Clayton Kershaw (2011, 2013, 2014), Dallas Keuchel (2015) and Blake Snell (2018) won Cy Young Award .
The most successful left-handed pitchers in MLB are Randy Johnson and Clayton Kershaw . Both received the award four times, followed by CC Sabathia with three honors. Johnson was the first pitcher to receive the award in 1999 and has won it four times in a row. The trophy was awarded a total of 21 times. 19 times to pitchers with US citizenship, which corresponds to 90% of all awarded players, and twice to pitchers from Venezuela .
CC Sabathia was the most honored of the American League with three awards, followed by the Venezuelan Johan Santana with two awards. Santana is the only recipient who is not a US citizen.
.jpg)
