The Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player Award is an annual award given to the best player in Minor League Baseball's Pacific Coast League based on their regular-season performance as voted on by
Lefty O'Doul won the first Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player Award in 1927.
Joe DiMaggio, the 1935 MVP, won three American League MVP Awards and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955.
Steve Bilko, the only player to win three MVP Awards, did so consecutively from 1955 to 1957.
Tony Pérez, the 1964 MVP, was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2000.
The Pacific Coast League Top MLB Prospect Award is an annual award given to the best rookie player in Minor League Baseball's Pacific Coast League based on their regular-season performance as voted on
Pacific Coast League Most Valuable Player Award
…11) and second basemen and shortstops (4). Eleven pitchers and eight catchers have won the award. Ten players who have won the MVP Award also won the Pacific Coast League Top MLB Prospect Award (formerly the Rookie of the Year Award) in the same season: Willie Davis (1960), Billy Cowan (1963), Denny Doyle (1969), Robb Quinlan (2002), Adam Eaton…
Carlos Bernier won the first Rookie of the Year Award in 1952.
Willie Davis was the first to win Rookie of the Year and the MVP Award in the same season (1960).
Bobby Crosby, the 2003 winner, won the American League Rookie of the Year Award the next year.
Félix Hernández is the only player to win Rookie and Pitcher of the Year in the same year (2005).