{"id":282702,"date":"2025-11-14T14:21:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282702\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:21:18","slug":"blue-jays-vladimir-guerrero-jr-wins-mlbs-first-entertainer-of-the-year-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282702\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Jays&#8217; Vladimir Guerrero Jr. wins MLB&#8217;s first Entertainer of the Year award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taking the field with passion and high energy with a high level of play every night, Guerrero was recognized as the winner of MLB&#8217;s inaugural Entertainer of the Year award on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRBZCMOjbO8\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">In an Instagram post<\/a>, MLB said that Guerrero earned the award for shining &#8220;both on and off the field this season&#8221; while providing big moments, big energy and big style.<\/p>\n<p>The honour was bestowed at the MLB awards show in Las Vegas, and while Guerrero wasn&#8217;t able to attend, his godfather, Pedro Martinez, accepted the award on his behalf.<\/p>\n<p>In an ode to Guerrero&#8217;s entertaining post-season run, in which the Blue Jays first baseman posted a 1.289 OPS on the way to the World Series, Martinez channelled the 26-year-old&#8217;s post-ALDS-winning celebration, dropping a &#8220;Daaaa Yankees lose&#8221; on the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Guerrero&#8217;s on-field exploits were also recognized on Thursday, as he and teammate Bo Bichette were named to the All-MLB Teams.<\/p>\n<p>In the regular season, Guerrero posted a .292\/.381\/.467 slashline with 23 home runs, 84 RBIs and 34 doubles.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taking the field with passion and high energy with a high level of play every night, Guerrero was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-282702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282702","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=282702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}