Top Five Chevy Vehicles Awarded to World Series MVPs
Baseball’s back, and that means the 2020 World Series MVP gets a Chevy! Here are our top five Chevys awarded to the MVP since ’05.
Chevys and baseball. An all-American combination if ever there was. And since 2005, the two have come together at the end of the postseason to award the World Series MVP a Chevy of his own to take home.
After a long delay, baseball is back; for how long is another matter entirely. Thus, that means another Chevy will be given to the 2020 World Series MVP. While we don’t know what the MVP will receive this time, we’ve chosen our five favorite Chevys from the past 15 seasons. Let’s count ’em down, shall we?
No. 5: 2006 SSR (2005)
The first year an MVP received a Chevy happened to be the final model year for the short-lived SSR. By then, the LS2 got a boost in power, topping out at 400 horses with the Tremec T-56 six-speed manual.
Outfielder Jermaine Dye of the Chicago White Sox received the retro-modern hot rod truck following the 4-0 sweep of the Houston Trash Can Beaters Astros.
No. 4: 2017 Chevy Camaro SS 50th Anniversary Edition (2016)
Just 108 years after the last one, the Chicago Cubs finally beat every curse to win the 2016 World Series. Cubs outfielder Ben Zobrist was part of that winning team, as well as that year’s MVP.
What better way, then, to celebrate a momentous win with a golden-anniversary edition of the 2017 Camaro SS convertible. It’s definitely a great way to experience the Windy City in the most literal way possible.
No. 3: 2012 Chevy Corvette Grand Sport (2011)
It took all seven games, but the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Texas Rangers at home, taking home their 11th championship, the first since 2006. Third baseman David Freese not only set a postseason record of 21 RBIs, he won numerous titles, including World Series MVP.
All those efforts netted him a 2012 Corvette Grand Sport, a fitting name for a grand sportsman like Freese.
No. 2: 2007 Corvette Z06 (2006)
A few years earlier, another David helped the Cards win the World Series, this time the first title since 1982. Shortstop David Eckstein knocked out three doubles along the way towards defeating the Detroit Tigers in five games.
His contribution led to both the MVP title and the driver’s seat of a 2007 Corvette Z06, a car which earned titles of its own: the official pace car of both the 2006 Daytona 500 and 2006 Indianapolis 500.
Honorable Mention: 2015 Colorado Z71 (2014)
The throwing arm of pitcher Madison Bumgarner led the San Francisco Giants to the championship over the Kansas City Royals in seven back in 2014.
However, neither the MVP title nor the all-new 2015 Colorado Z71 could top the presentation by then-Chevy regional manager Rikk Wilde. Bumgarner and the world learned the little red pickup had “class-leading technology and stuff.” Wilde became a meme, and the rest is history.
No. 1: 2020 Corvette (2019)
Finally, we go back to last year, when the Washington Nationals defeated the trash-can bangers from Houston in seven to win their first-ever World Series championship.
The win was possible with the dominate pitching of Stephen Strasburg, who would go on to be the World Series MVP. For all of that, he also was one of the first to (eventually) take home a C8-era Corvette. Not a bad way to celebrate Chevy’s 15th season of putting a golden bow tie on the big championship.
Photos: Chevrolet; Cameron Aubernon for LS1Tech
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