The Sporting News Reliever of the Year Award

Template:Short description Template:Italic title Template:About Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox sports award The Sporting News Reliever of the Year Award was an annual award presented to the best relief pitcher in each league in Major League Baseball (MLB).<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> It was established in Template:Mlby by The Sporting News (TSN) as the Fireman of the Year Award. At the time, no reliever had ever received a Cy Young Award vote.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Fireman of the Year Award originally recognized the reliever with the most combined saves and wins in each league in MLB.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The magazine had started publishing the then-unofficial save statistic that same year.<ref name=holtzman/> Later, a save was worth two points compared to one for a win in determining the winner.<ref name=holtzman>Template:Cite news</ref> In Template:Mlby the award was chosen based on consensus from TSN editors, and it was renamed to Reliever of the Year Award.<ref>Dickson 2011, pp.322–3</ref> The award was last issued in 2010.

Fireman of the Year Award winners

Year	American League	Team	National League	Team
Template:Baseball year	Mike Fornieles	Boston Red Sox	Lindy McDaniel	St. Louis Cardinals
Template:Baseball year	Luis Arroyo	New York Yankees	Stu Miller	San Francisco Giants
Template:Baseball year	Dick Radatz	Boston Red Sox	Roy Face	Pittsburgh Pirates
Template:Baseball year	Stu Miller (2)	Baltimore Orioles	Lindy McDaniel (2)	Chicago Cubs
Template:Baseball year	Dick Radatz (2)	Boston Red Sox	Al McBean	Pittsburgh Pirates
Template:Baseball year	Eddie Fisher	Chicago White Sox	Ted Abernathy	Chicago Cubs
Template:Baseball year	Jack Aker	Kansas City A's	Phil Regan	Los Angeles Dodgers
Template:Baseball year	Minnie Rojas	California Angels	Ted Abernathy (2)	Cincinnati Reds
Template:Baseball year	Wilbur Wood	Chicago White Sox	Phil Regan (2)	Chicago Cubs
Template:Baseball year	Ron Perranoski	Minnesota Twins	Wayne Granger	Cincinnati Reds
Template:Baseball year	Ron Perranoski (2)	Minnesota Twins	Wayne Granger (2)	Cincinnati Reds
Template:Baseball year	Ken Sanders	Milwaukee Brewers	Dave Giusti	Pittsburgh Pirates
Template:Baseball year	Sparky Lyle	New York Yankees	Clay Carroll	Cincinnati Reds
Template:Baseball year	John Hiller	Detroit Tigers	Mike Marshall	Montreal Expos
Template:Baseball year	Terry Forster	Chicago White Sox	Mike Marshall (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers
Template:Baseball year	Rich Gossage	Chicago White Sox	Al Hrabosky	St. Louis Cardinals
Template:Baseball year	Bill Campbell	Minnesota Twins	Rawly Eastwick	Cincinnati Reds
Template:Baseball year	Bill Campbell (2)	Boston Red Sox	Rollie Fingers	San Diego Padres
Template:Baseball year	Rich Gossage (2)	New York Yankees	Rollie Fingers (2)	San Diego Padres
Template:Baseball year	Jim Kern Mike Marshall (3)	Texas Rangers Minnesota Twins	Bruce Sutter	Chicago Cubs
Template:Baseball year	Dan Quisenberry	Kansas City Royals	Rollie Fingers (3) Tom Hume	San Diego Padres Cincinnati Reds
Template:Baseball year	Rollie Fingers (4)	Milwaukee Brewers	Bruce Sutter (2)	St. Louis Cardinals
Template:Baseball year	Dan Quisenberry (2)	Kansas City Royals	Bruce Sutter (3)	St. Louis Cardinals
Template:Baseball year	Dan Quisenberry (3)	Kansas City Royals	Al Holland Lee Smith	Philadelphia Phillies Chicago Cubs
Template:Baseball year	Dan Quisenberry (4)	Kansas City Royals	Bruce Sutter (4)	St. Louis Cardinals
Template:Baseball year	Dan Quisenberry (5)	Kansas City Royals	Jeff Reardon	Montreal Expos
Template:Baseball year	Dave Righetti	New York Yankees	Todd Worrell	St. Louis Cardinals
Template:Baseball year	Jeff Reardon (2) Dave Righetti (2)	Minnesota Twins New York Yankees	Steve Bedrosian	Philadelphia Phillies
Template:Baseball year	Dennis Eckersley	Oakland Athletics	John Franco	Cincinnati Reds
Template:Baseball year	Jeff Russell	Texas Rangers	Mark Davis	San Diego Padres
Template:Baseball year	Bobby Thigpen	Chicago White Sox	John Franco (2)	New York Mets
Template:Baseball year	Dennis Eckersley (2) Bryan Harvey	Oakland Athletics California Angels	Lee Smith (2)	St. Louis Cardinals
Template:Baseball year	Dennis Eckersley (3)	Oakland Athletics	Doug Jones Lee Smith (3)	Houston Astros St. Louis Cardinals
Template:Baseball year	Jeff Montgomery	Kansas City Royals	Randy Myers	Chicago Cubs
Template:Baseball year	Lee Smith (4)	Baltimore Orioles	John Franco (3)	New York Mets
Template:Baseball year	José Mesa	Cleveland Indians	Randy Myers (2)	Chicago Cubs
Template:Baseball year	John Wetteland	New York Yankees	Trevor Hoffman	San Diego Padres
Template:Baseball year	Mariano Rivera	New York Yankees	Jeff Shaw	Cincinnati Reds
Template:Baseball year	Tom Gordon	Boston Red Sox	Trevor Hoffman (2)	San Diego Padres
Template:Baseball year	Mariano Rivera (2)	New York Yankees	Ugueth Urbina	Montreal Expos
Template:Baseball year	Todd Jones	Detroit Tigers	Antonio Alfonseca	Florida Marlins

Reliever of the Year Award winners

Year	American League	Team	National League	Team
Template:Baseball year	Mariano Rivera (3)	New York Yankees	Armando Benítez Robb Nen	New York Mets San Francisco Giants
Template:Baseball year	Billy Koch	Oakland Athletics	John Smoltz	Atlanta Braves
Template:Baseball year	Keith Foulke	Oakland Athletics	Éric Gagné	Los Angeles Dodgers
Template:Baseball year	Mariano Rivera (4)	New York Yankees	Éric Gagné (2)	Los Angeles Dodgers
Template:Baseball year	Mariano Rivera (5) Joe Nathan	New York Yankees Minnesota Twins	Chad Cordero	Washington Nationals
Template:Baseball year	Francisco Rodríguez	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	Trevor Hoffman (3)	San Diego Padres
Template:Baseball year	Joe Borowski	Cleveland Indians	José Valverde	Arizona Diamondbacks
Template:Baseball year	Francisco Rodríguez (2)	Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim	Brad Lidge	Philadelphia Phillies
Template:Baseball year	Mariano Rivera (6)	New York Yankees	Ryan Franklin	St. Louis Cardinals
Template:Baseball year	Rafael Soriano	Tampa Bay Rays	Heath Bell	San Diego Padres

See also

• Major League Baseball Reliever of the Year Award
  • also known as the Mariano Rivera AL Reliever of the Year Award and Trevor Hoffman NL Reliever of the Year Award
• Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award (discontinued)
• "Esurance MLB Awards" Best Pitcher (in MLB)
• "Players Choice Awards" Outstanding Pitcher
• Warren Spahn Award (best left-handed pitcher)
• Baseball awards
• List of Major League Baseball awards
• The Sporting News Starting Pitcher of the Year
• The Sporting News Relief Pitcher of the Year
• The Sporting News Player of the Year
• The Sporting News Rookie of the Year
• The Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year
• The Sporting News Manager of the Year
• The Sporting News Executive of the Year

References

General

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