{"id":147865,"date":"2025-09-16T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147865\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T10:31:16","slug":"two-baseball-players-with-peoria-ties-nominated-for-prestigious-mlb-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147865\/","title":{"rendered":"Two baseball players with Peoria ties nominated for prestigious MLB award"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two players with Peoria ties are among the nominees for Major League Baseball’s highest individual honor.<\/p>\n

Former Bradley Braves outfielder Mike Tauchman<\/a> and former Peoria Chiefs infielder Brendan Donovan are among the nominees for the 2025 Roberto Clemente Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The awards annually recognizes the MLB player who best represents the game through extraordinary character, community involvement, philanthropy and positive contributions both on and off the field.<\/p>\n

Fans can vote on the ballot, which includes a player from each of MLB’s teams. Voting is online<\/a> through the end of the regular season on Sept. 28. Those fan votes will be converted into one vote for the winner, added to an MLB selection committee.<\/p>\n

The award was launched in 1971, and the complete list of past winners is here<\/a>. The 2025 nominees from every MLB team are listed as well<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Bradley<\/p>\n

Bradley VP of Intercollegiate Athletics Chris Reynolds, left, shakes hands with popular Chicago Cubs outfielder and Bradley alum Mike Tauchman during a Bradley Hall of Fame ceremony at halftime of the Bradley-Belmont basketball game Saturday, Jan. 20, 2024 at Carver Arena in Peoria. The Braves routed the Bruins 95-72.<\/p>\n

Tauchman and his wife, Eileen, welcomed a daughter named Remi last year. She was born with a cleft palate and required a feeding tube for the first three months of her life.<\/p>\n

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Knowing that other couples are dealing with similar challenges, the Tauchmans assembled care packages for parents and children navigating hospital stays for cleft and other craniofacial conditions.<\/p>\n

This July, the Tauchmans further supported their cause by launching a fundraising campaign at a Chicago hospital and pledging to match donations up to their goal of $18,000, a tribute to Mike\u2019s number 18 with the White Sox.<\/p>\n

More: How another Chicago Cubs baseball star ended up at this West Peoria bar<\/a><\/p>\n

Donations have already exceeded $21,000. That money will be used in an array of areas, from transportation to meals for families navigating hospital stays.<\/p>\n

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Tauchman, 34, has played 562 MLB games for the White Sox and Cubs, Colorado, San Francisco and Yankees.<\/p>\n

He appeared in 193 games over four seasons from 2010-13 for Bradley University.<\/p>\n

\"Peoria<\/p>\n

Peoria Chiefs second baseman Brendan Donovan throws to first for an out in the third inning against the Wisconsins Timber Rattlers on Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at Dozer Park.<\/p>\n

Donovan, 28, made his St. Louis Cardinals debut in 2022 and is in fourth MLB season. He played for the then low-A Chiefs for 138 games over parts of 2019 and 2021, batting .272 with 10 home runs.<\/p>\n

As the son of a U.S. Army deputy commander, Donovan has always been active with veteran groups, including donating to the Veterans Community Project, advocating for Team Red, White & Blue and The Kaufman Fund.<\/p>\n

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In 2024, he was honored with the Bob Feller Act of Valor Award, which recognizes MLB players who demonstrate extraordinary support for military service members and veterans.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Journal Star: Fans can vote: Roberto Clemente Award nominees include two players with Peoria ties<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two players with Peoria ties are among the nominees for Major League Baseball’s highest individual honor. Former Bradley…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[78843,21168,49,48,508,5731,78845,501,60220,462,78844,78841,78842,5886,82,3982,1497,1505],"class_list":["post-147865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-bradley-braves","tag-brendan-donovan","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-colorado","tag-community-involvement","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-mike-tauchman","tag-mlb","tag-peoria","tag-peoria-chiefs","tag-roberto-clemente-award","tag-san-francisco","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-white-sox","tag-yankees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}