Who are the 30 nominees for the Roberto Clemente Award?
The Roberto Clemente Award is given to the player who best represents baseball through his community involvement, character and philanthropy.
Each year, MLB recognizes the players who best represent baseball through their community involvement, character, and philanthropy and awards them the Roberto Clemente Award. The award is named after the former Puerto Rican outfielder who died in a plane crash in 1972 while carrying a shipment of humanitarian aid to Managua, Nicaragua.
Major League Baseball has revealed a list of 30 nominated baseball players, one per franchise, and fans are tasked with voting to grant them this recognition.
The Roberto Clemente Award goes to the player who best represents baseball through community involvement, character & philanthropy 💙
— New York Yankees (@Yankees) September 9, 2024
For his @HDMHFoundation and his work with local youth, Marcus Stroman is our nominee. Vote for @STR0 👉 https://t.co/3yV3lP9tYH pic.twitter.com/lAYxZgrQjf
This year, among the Latin American players who were nominated are Venezuelans Salvador Pérez (Kansas City Royals), Pablo López (Minnesota Twins) and Jesús Luzardo (Miami Marlins); Dominicans: Manny Machado (San Diego Padres) and Freddy Peralta (Milwaukee Brewers); and Puerto Ricans Francisco Lindor (New York Mets) and Marcus Stroman (New York Yankees).
The latest three winners of the award are Aaron Judge in 2023, Justin Turner in 2022, and Nelson Cruz in 2021.
Here are your 30 club nominees for the prestigious 2024 Roberto Clemente Award presented by @CapitalOne. Fan voting runs through September 29th at https://t.co/CqYvdCDtEf. pic.twitter.com/g8UlWLuabA
— MLB (@MLB) September 9, 2024
These are the 30 candidates for the Roberto Clemente Award 2024:
- Arizona Diamondbacks – Paul Sewald
- Atlanta Braves – Chris Sale
- Baltimore Orioles – James McCann
- Boston Red Sox – Liam Hendriks
- Chicago Cubs – Patrick Wisdom
- Chicago White Sox – Andrew Vaughn
- Cincinnati Reds – Brent Suter
- Cleveland Guardians – Steven Kwan
- Colorado Rockies – Kyle Freeland
- Detroit Tigers – Tarik Skubal
- Houston Astros – Kyle Tucker
- Kansas City Royals – Salvador Perez
- Los Angeles Angels – Mike Trout
- Los Angeles Dodgers – Mookie Betts
- Miami Marlins – Jesus Luzardo
- Milwaukee Brewers – Freddy Peralta
- Minnesota Twins – Pablo Lopez
- New York Mets – Francisco Lindor
- New York Yankees – Marcus Stroman
- Oakland Athletics – Mason Miller
- Philadelphia Phillies – Kyle Schwarber
- Pittsburgh Pirates – David Bednar
- San Diego Padres – Manny Machado
- San Francisco Giants – Mike Yastrzemski
- Seattle Mariners – J.P. Crawford
- St. Louis Cardinals – Paul Goldschmidt
- Tampa Bay Rays – Jason Adam
- Texas Rangers – Marcus Semien
- Toronto Blue Jays – Chris Bassitt
- Washington Nationals – Josiah Gray
Roberto Enrique Clemente Walker (August 18, 1934 – December 31, 1972) was a Puerto Rican professional baseball player. He played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Pittsburgh Pirates, mainly as a right fielder.
In December 1972, Clemente tragically died in a plane crash while trying to deliver emergency relief supplies to the survivors of a massive earthquake in Nicaragua.
Following his untimely death, the National Baseball Hall of Fame changed its rules to allow players who had been deceased for at least six months to be eligible for induction. In 1973, Clemente was posthumously inducted, making him the first player from the Caribbean and Latin America to receive this honor in the Hall of Fame.