List of Nashville Sounds awards, All-Stars, and league leaders

The Nashville Sounds minor league baseball team has played in Nashville, Tennessee, since its inaugural 1978 season. It was created as an expansion team of the Double-A Southern League, in which it competed through 1984.[1] The franchise moved to the Triple-A American Association in 1985 and then to the Triple-A Pacific Coast League in 1998.[1] This list, which is correct as of the end of the 2016 season, documents players and personnel who have won league awards, were selected for mid- or postseason 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 ten have won Pitcher of the Year awards (Bruce Berenyi, Geoff Combe, Andy McGaffigan, Jamie Werly, Stefan Wever, Chris Hammond, Scott Ruffcorn, R. A. Dickey, Johnny Hellweg, and Jimmy Nelson). Four team managers have won Manager of the Year honors: Stump Merrill, Rick Renick, Frank Kremblas, and Steve Scarsone. Manager Mike Guerrero was the recipient of Minor League Baseball's Mike Coolbaugh Award in 2013. 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 1978, 1980, and 1981.
Sixty-six players have been selected for midseason 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 for midseason all-star games: Duane Walker (1979), Ray Durham (1994), and Ordóñez (1997).[2] Of the 49 players who have been named to postseason All-Star teams, only Duane Walker and Jeff Abbott have been selected twice.
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.
Table key
![]() | All-Star Game MVP |
* | Tie between two or more Sounds players |
(2) | Tie between two or more players in the league; number indicates total number of players with same performance |
Award winners



Southern League (1978–84)
Award | Recipient | Season | Ref |
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Most Valuable Player | Balboni, SteveSteve Balboni | 1980 | [3] |
Most Valuable Player | Dayett, BrianBrian Dayett | 1982 | [3] |
Most Outstanding Pitcher | Berenyi, BruceBruce Berenyi | 1978 | [4] |
Most Outstanding Pitcher | Combe, GeoffGeoff Combe | 1979 | [4] |
Most Outstanding Pitcher | McGaffigan, AndyAndy McGaffigan | 1980 | [4] |
Most Outstanding Pitcher | Jamie Werly | 1981 | [4] |
Most Outstanding Pitcher | Wever, StefanStefan Wever | 1982 | [4] |
Manager of the Year | Merrill, StumpStump Merrill | 1980 | [5] |
Broadcaster of the Year | Bob Jamison | 1980 | [6] |
Broadcaster of the Year | Bob Jamison | 1982 | [6] |
Larry MacPhail Award (Outstanding Minor League Promotions) | — | 1978 | [7] |
Larry MacPhail Award (Outstanding Minor League Promotions) | — | 1980 | [7] |
Larry MacPhail Award (Outstanding Minor League Promotions) | — | 1981 | [7] |
American Association (1985–97)
Award | Recipient | Season | Ref |
---|---|---|---|
Most Valuable Player | Ordóñez, MagglioMagglio Ordóñez | 1997 | [8] |
Most Valuable Pitcher | Hammond, ChrisChris Hammond | 1990 | [8] |
Most Valuable Pitcher | Ruffcorn, ScottScott Ruffcorn | 1994 | [8] |
Rookie of the Year | Abbott, JeffJeff Abbott | 1996 | [8] |
Rookie of the Year | Ordóñez, MagglioMagglio Ordóñez | 1997 | [8] |
Manager of the Year | Renick, RickRick Renick | 1993 | [8] |
Manager of the Year | Renick, RickRick Renick | 1996 | [8] |
Pacific Coast League (1998–present)
Award | Recipient | Season | Ref |
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Pitcher of the Year | Dickey, R.A.R.A. Dickey | 2007 | [9] |
Pitcher of the Year | Hellweg, JohnnyJohnny Hellweg | 2013 | [9] |
Pitcher of the Year | Nelson, JimmyJimmy Nelson | 2014 | [9] |
Manager of the Year | Kremblas, FrankFrank Kremblas | 2007 | [9] |
Manager of the Year | Scarsone, SteveSteve Scarsone | 2016 | [9] |
Mike Coolbaugh Award | Guerrero, MikeMike Guerrero | 2013 | [10] |
All-Stars
Midseason All-Stars
These players were voted onto league midseason All-Star teams. Three Sounds players have been named the MVP for their contributions in an All-Star Game.




Postseason All-Stars
These players were voted onto league postseason All-Star teams.



League leaders
Batting leaders
These players led all other players in the league in particular statistical batting categories in a single season.[24]


Pitching leaders
These players led all other players in the league in particular statistical pitching categories in a single season.[24]




Fielding leaders
These players led all other players at their playing position in the league in fielding percentage in a single season.[24]


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