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 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).