List of Nashville Sounds Awards, All-Stars, and League Leaders

List Of Nashville Sounds Awards, All-Stars, And League Leaders

The Nashville Sounds minor league baseball franchise has played in Nashville, Tennessee since its inception in the 1978 season. It was created as an expansion team of the Double-A Southern League, in which it competed through 1984. The franchise moved to the Triple-A American Association in 1985 and then to the Triple-A Pacific Coast League in 1998. This list, which is correct as of the end of the 2012 season, documents players and personnel who have won league awards, were selected for mid or post-season All-Star teams, or led the league in particular statistical areas in a single season.

Three Sounds players have won league Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards (Steve Balboni, Brian Dayett, and Magglio Ordóñez) and eight have won Pitcher of the Year awards (Bruce Berenyi, Geoff Combe, Andy McGaffigan, Jamie Werly, Stefan Wever, Chris Hammond, Scott Ruffcorn, and R. A. Dickey). Three team managers have won Manager of the Year honors: Stump Merrill, Rick Renick, and Frank Kremblas. Ordóñez won the 1997 American Association MVP award as well as the league's Rookie of the Year award, making him the only Sounds player to win two awards in the same season. The only other team personnel to win multiple awards, though in separate seasons, are Renick, who won the league Manager of the Year award in 1993 and 1996, and radio broadcaster Bob Jamison, who was named Broadcaster of the Year in 1980 and 1982. The franchise also won the Larry MacPhail Trophy for Outstanding Minor League Promotions in 1980 and 1981.

Of the 46 players who have been named to post-season All-Star teams, only Duane Walker and Jeff Abbott have been selected twice. Fifty-nine players have been selected for mid-season All-Star teams. Of those players, Drew Denson, Vinny Rottino, and Joey Vierra are the only players to have been selected twice while playing for Nashville. Three players have been chosen as the MVP or "Star of Stars", as it was sometimes called, for mid-season all-star games: Duane Walker (1979), Ray Durham (1994), and Ordóñez (1997).

A number of Sounds players have led the league in multiple statistical categories during a single season. Balboni led the 1980 season in five categories: runs (101), runs batted in (122), total bases (288), home runs (30), and fielding percentage among first basemen (.990). In 1990, Hammond led the league in wins (15), winning percentage (.938 (15–1)), earned run average (2.17), and strikeouts (149). Durham, Ruffcorn, and Wever have also led a single season in three areas.

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