BR Bullpen:News Archive/2022

2022

• December 1: Chin-Feng Chen and Harvey Tung are voted into the Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame.
• December 7: Pat Hughes wins the Ford Frick Award.
• December 7: Thad Ward is the first pick of the 2022 Rule V Draft.
• December 6: John Lowe wins the BBWAA Career Excellence Award.
• December 6: Emmanuel Clase wins the Mariano Rivera Award as the best relief pitcher in the American League while Edwin Díaz wins the equivalent Trevor Hoffman Award in the National League.
• December 6: Jordan Romano wins the Tip O'Neill Award for 2022.
• December 4: Fred McGriff is elected to the Hall of Fame by the Veterans Committee.
• 'December 1: Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry, a 300-game winner, passes away at age 84.
• November 30: Li Lin wins CPBL MVP for 2022. Kuan-Wei Chen is awarded the Rookie of the Year.
• November 25: Munetaka Murakami is named MVP of NPB's Central League, the first unanimous winner since Sadaharu Oh 45 years earlier. The winner in the Pacific League is Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The Rookie of the Year in the Central League is Taisei Ota while Yoshinobu Mizukami takes home the award in the Pacific League.
• November 17: Jung-hoo Lee wins KBO MVP for 2022, joining his father in being the first father-son duo to take home the award. Cheol-won Jeong wins KBO Rookie of the Year.
• November 17: Aaron Judge wins the MVP Award in the American League and Paul Goldschmidt does so in the National League.
• November 16: Sandy Alcantara wins the Cy Young Award in the National League and Justin Verlander wins it in the American League, both by unanimous vote.
• November 15: Buck Showalter wins the Manager of the Year Award in the National League, and Terry Francona does so in the American League.
• November 14: Julio Rodriguez is the Rookie of the Year in the American League and Michael Harris wins the award in the National League.
• November 14: Eric Brenk is named Bundesliga-1 North MVP while Kaleb Bowman takes the MVP in the South.
• November 9: Satoshi Nakajima wins the Matsutaro Shoriki Award.
• November 9: The Chinatrust Brothers win the 2022 Taiwan Series, the first team to sweep consecutive Taiwan Series. The Taiwan Series MVP is Cheng-Hua Yueh.
• November 8: The SSG Landers win the 2022 Korean Series. Kang-min Kim becomes the oldest Korean Series MVP.
• November 5: The Houston Astros defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, four games to two, to win the 2022 World Series. Rookie Jeremy Peña is named World Series MVP.
• November 2: Four Houston Astros pitchers led by Cristian Javier combine on a no-hitter in Game 4 of the 2022 World Series - only the second ever in the Fall Classic.
• October 30: The Orix Buffaloes win their first Japan Series title, beating the Yakult Swallows in the 2022 Japan Series. The Series MVP is Yutaro Sugimoto.
• October 24: Yoshinobu Yamamoto wins the Sawamura Award for 2022.
• October 24: The Houston Astros win their fourth American League pennant in six years.
• October 24: The Philadelphia Phillies become National League champions for the first time since 2009.
• October 13: Hall of Fame relief pitcher Bruce Sutter passes away at age 69.
• October 5: Panama, Nicaragua, the Czech Republic and Great Britain wins the 2023 World Baseball Classic Qualifiers to advance to the 2023 World Baseball Classic.
• October 4: Aaron Judge hits his 62nd home run of the season, breaking the American League record.
• October 3: Munetaka Murakami hits his 56th home run of the season, breaking the NPB record for a Japanese player set by Sadaharu Oh.
• October 2: The Durham Bulls win the Triple-A National Championship; Bligh Madris wins the MVP.
• September 29: Gunnar Henderson wins the Baseball America Minor League Player of the Year Award.
• September 23: Albert Pujols becomes the fourth player in major league history to hit 700 home runs.
• September 18: The US wins the 2022 U-18 Baseball World Cup. Bryce Eldridge wins the MVP.
• September 17: HCAW wins the 2022 Holland Series; Lars Huijer is the Series MVP.
• September 14: The Leones de Yucatan win the Mexican League title. The finals MVP is Henderson Alvarez.
• September 11: ASD San Marino wins the 2022 Italian Series. Gabriel Lino is named Series MVP.
• September 10: The Rättvik Butchers‎ win their first Elitserien championship in 20 years.
• September 4: The Bonn Capitals win their second Bundesliga-1 title. Eric Brenk is named finals MVP.
• August 28: Honolulu, HI wins the 2022 Little League World Series.
• August 26: In Czechia, Draci Brno wins its 23rd Extraliga title.
• August 21: The Rouen Huskies win the French Division I title.
• August 19: The Marlins Puerto Cruz repeat as Division de Honor champs in Spain.
• August 6: France wins the 2022 European Women's Championship. Coralie Guillemin is the MVP of the event.
• July 30: The Brazilian national team wins the 2022 South American Championship; Marcelo Arai is named MVP.
• July 27: The Pacific League completes a sweep of the 2022 NPB All-Star Games. Kotaro Kiyomiya wins Game 1 MVP, while Yuki Yanagita takes the honor in Game 2.
• July 19: The American League wins the 2022 All-Star Game, 3-2 over the National League, for its ninth straight win. Giancarlo Stanton is named the game's MVP.
• July 17: SS Jackson Holliday is the first overall pick in the 2022 amateur draft, by the Orioles, while OF Druw Jones goes to the Diamondbacks with the second pick.
• July 16: The American League wins the 2022 Futures Game. Shea Langeliers wins the Larry Doby Award as MVP.
• July 5: The Dominican Republic wins the Gold at the 2022 Bolivarian Games.
• June 26: The University of Mississippi defeats the University of Oklahoma to win the 2022 College World Series; Dylan DeLucia is named the College World Series Most Outstanding Player.
• June 25: Three Houston Astros pitchers - Cristian Javier, Héctor Neris and Ryan Pressly - combine to no-hit the Yankees, 3-0.
• June 24: The Northern Mariana Islands wins Gold in the 2022 Pacific Mini-Games.
• June 11: Parma repeats as European Champions Cup winners. Manuel Joseph is MVP of the 2022 European Champions Cup.
• May 10: Reid Detmers pitches the first complete game no-hitter of the year in a 12-0 win by the Angels over the Rays.
• April 29: Five Mets pitchers combine on a no-hitter, only the second in franchise history. Tylor Megill, Drew Smith, Joely Rodríguez, Seth Lugo and Edwin Diaz all contribute to the feat.
• April 23: Miguel Cabrera becomes the 33rd member of the 3,000 hit club - and only the 7th to have also hit 500 homers.
• April 12: Alyssa Nakken becomes the first woman to appear in uniform in a major league baseball game when she takes over as first base coach for the San Francisco Giants following an ejection.
• April 10: Roki Sasaki throws the first Nippon Pro Baseball regular season perfect game in 28 years, becoming the youngest player to throw one. He ties the NPB record for strikeouts in a game (19) and shatters the old record of consecutive strikeouts (13; the old mark was 9).
• April 3: Ngayaw Ake becomes the all-time CPBL home run king, breaking a tie with Tai-Shan Chang.
• February 3: The Caimanes de Barranquilla become the first team from Colombia to win a Caribbean Series title; 1B Reynaldo Rodríguez in named Caribbean Series MVP.
• February 2: Tony Batista, David Ortiz, Luís Saint-Claire and Juanchy Sánchez are inducted into the Caribbean Baseball Hall of Fame.
• February 2: Jeff Francis is elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
• January 25: David Ortiz is elected to the Hall of Fame by the BBWAA.
• January 25: The Navegantes del Magallanes win the Venezuelan League for the 13th time.
• January 22: The Gigantes del Cibao win the second Dominican League title of their history, defeating Estrellas Orientales in the league finals, 4 games to 1.
• January 22: The Charros de Jalisco claim their second Mexican Pacific League title.
• January 20: The Criollos de Caguas win their 20th Puerto Rican League.
• January 14: Masahiro Yamamoto, Shingo Takatsu and Shigeyoshi Matsumae are elected to the Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame in the 2022 Japanese Baseball Hall of Fame Election.