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Defensive Player of the Year Award

The Defensive Player of the Year Award is part of the This Year in Baseball Awards, established by Major League Baseball (MLB.com) in 2002 allowing "connected" fans to first select nominees for various awards then vote for those they selected in the categories.

Those who were nominated and those who won the Defensive Player of the Year are presented below in yearly sections. Bold names denote the winner and all nominees appear in descending order of total percentage of votes received.

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2002 Defensive Player of the Year Award		% of Votes
Torii Hunter	Minnesota	26%
Andruw Jones	Atlanta	23%
Omar Vizquel	Cleveland	13%
Ichiro Suzuki	Seattle	11%
Mike Bordick	Baltimore	9%
Jim Edmonds	St. Louis	8%
Darin Erstad	Anaheim	8%
Bengie Molina	Anaheim	2%
2003 Defensive Player of the Year Award		% of Votes
Jim Edmonds	St. Louis	16.8%
Torii Hunter	Minnesota	15.4%
Ichiro Suzuki	Seattle	13.7%
Eric Chavez	Oakland	13.0%
Brad Ausmus	Houston	11.7%
Bengie Molina	Anaheim	8.6%
2004 Defensive Player of the Year Award		% of Votes
Jim Edmonds	St. Louis	15.4%
Carlos Beltran	Houston	14.6%
Scott Rolen	St. Louis	13.1%
Ichiro Suzuki	Seattle	11.0%
Torii Hunter	Minnesota	8.9%
2005 Defensive Player of the Year Award		% of Votes
Ichiro Suzuki	Seattle	22.7%
Jim Edmonds	St. Louis	18.0%
Andruw Jones	Atlanta	15.4%
Jack Wilson	Pittsburgh	12.3%
Yadier Molina	St. Louis	11.4%
2006 Defensive Player of the Year Award		% of Votes
Mike Lowell	Boston	21.0%
Carlos Beltran	New York	18.8%
Ivan Rodriguez	Detroit	17.2%
Joe Crede	Chicago	15.2%
Omar Vizquel	San Francisco	13.2%
Mark Ellis	Oakland	9.8%
Adam Everett	Houston	8.7%
Brandon Inge	Detroit	8.0%
Mike Cameron	San Diego	4.8%
Orlando Hudson	Arizona	4.4%
2007 Defensive Player of the Year Award		% of Votes
Placido Polanco	Detroit	25.8%
Mike Lowell	Boston	24.2%
Grady Sizemore	Cleveland	11.2%
Troy Tulowitzki	Colorado	9.8%
Ichiro Suzuki	Seattle	9.3%
Todd Helton	Colorado	8.6%
Torii Hunter	Minnesota	3.6%
Eric Byrnes	Arizona	3.3%
Orlando Hudson	Arizona	2.2%
Kenji Johjima	Seattle	2.0%
2008 Defensive Player of the Year Award		% of Votes
Orlando Cabrera	Chicago	36.3%
Dustin Pedroia	Boston	24.9%
Albert Pujols	St. Louis	9.3%
Joe Mauer	Minnesota	7.9%
Grady Sizemore	Cleveland	5.2%
Torii Hunter	Los Angeles	4.7%
Troy Glaus	St. Louis	3.4%
Brian Roberts	Baltimore	3.4%
Nate McLouth	Pittsburgh	2.9%
Ichiro Suzuki	Seattle	2.2%
2009 Defensive Player of the Year Award		% of Votes
Jacoby Ellsbury	Boston	29.5%
Jimmy Rollins	Philadelphia	16.7%
Yadier Molina	St. Louis	14.9%
Torii Hunter	Los Angeles	9.6%
Troy Tulowitzki	Colorado	8.0%
Melvin Mora	Baltimore	6.3%
Adam Jones	Baltimore	5.4%
Ryan Zimmerman	Washington	4.8%
Michael Bourn	Houston	4.1%
Kaz Matsui	Houston	0.7%
2010 Defensive Player of the Year Award		% of Votes
Elvis Andrus	Texas	27.0%
Franklin Gutierrez	Seattle	26.0%
Ryan Zimmerman	Washington	22.0%
Yadier Molina	St. Louis	15.0%
Mark Teixeira	New York	10.0%
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The Defensive Player of the Year is part of the This Year in Baseball Awards set, created in 2002 by MLB.com. Review the main page to see all the other variations.

In 2010 the award title didn't change, but they did choose to start also calling them GIBBY Awards, short for Greatness in Baseball Yearly.

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