2025 Mitchell Award winner

It was a historic race for the 2025 Kevin Mitchell Award, honoring the DMBL's best batter, in more ways than one.

2025 Mitchell Award contenders

A heated rivalry is budding among two DMBL batters when it comes to the Kevin Mitchell Award.

2024 Kevin Mitchell Award: Aaron Judge

Aaron Judge became the four player in DMBL history to win back-to-back Kevin Mitchell Awards, doing it in near unanimous fashion.

2023 Kevin Mitchell Award winner: Aaron Judge

Aaron Judge and Mike Trout shared the 2023 home run crown but it was Judge who outdistanced a crowded field to secure the Kevin Mitchell Award all to himself.

2022 Mitchell Award winner: Bryce Harper

Philly's Bryce Harper won his first Kevin Mitchell Award as the DMBL's top batter of 2022, easily outdistancing home run champ Vlad Guerrero, Jr. of Livingston and Vancouver rookie Frank Schwindel.

2022 Kevin Mitchell Award contenders

The Kevin Mitchell Award recognizes the DMBL's top batter. There's the age-old debate about whether to give the award to the best hitter or the most valuable hitter, and what does that even mean, if he plays for a non-playoff team?

2021 Mitchell Award winner: Jose Abreu

For the second consecutive year, and only the fifth time in league history, one franchise has swept the awards honoring the DMBL's top pitcher and batter.

2021 Mitchell Award contenders

2021 was a wild and wacky year in the DMBL. Expansion brought the league from 16 to 20 franchises and the season was simulated on the 60-game 2020 MLB season, so statistics come with a bit of an asterisk.

2020 Kevin Mitchell Award winner: Christian Yelich

Christian Yelich secured a triple crown of sorts in 2020, leading the league in batting, on-base percentage and slugging, along with a number of other categories. The offensive explosion in his seventh DMBL season was enough to win the 2020 Kevin Mitchell Award as the league's top batter, comfortably outdistancing teammate Cody Bellinger.

2020 Kevin Mitchell Award candidates

Is a big hitting CF or SS more valuable than a power-hitting 1B? Does a DH who doesn't usually even play the field warrant as much consideration? It's an age-old question, as is just what "valuable" means. And in a season with home runs flying out of ballparks -- does it matter?

2019 Kevin Mitchell Award winner

Mike Trout has done it again.

2019 Kevin Mitchell Award candidates

It could be a wide open race for the 2019 Kevin Mitchell Award, or it could very well be a cakewalk, who knows.

2018 Kevin Mitchell Award winner

Allentown's Mike Trout out-polled 13 other players receiving votes on his way to his second Kevin Mitchell Award as the league's best batter in 2018. He's the third player in DMBL history to have more than one Mitch, joining former Philly teammate Albert Pujols (2009-10) and Barry Bonds, who won three with Arkansas (2002, 2004-05).

2018 Mitchell Award candidates

The Kevin Mitchell Award for the most valuable batter recognizes the best performance by a batter, as determined by a vote of the league's owners. There are no shortage of candidates this year, with three 100-win teams and plenty of offense.

2017 Mitchell Award winner: Miguel Cabrera

In one of the closest votes in recent memory, Miguel Cabrera picked up the first Kevin Mitchell Award of his 14-year career, edging Gary Sanchez, playing in his first DMBL season, by just three points.

2016 Mitchell Award winner: Giancarlo Stanton

Home run champion Giancarlo Stanton was the runaway winner for the 2016 Kevin Mitchell Most Valuable Player Award. It's his first Mitchell Award and also the first for the Allentown franchise.