page_title: Southern League All-Star Game
section_title: Most Valuable Player Award
hierarchical_section_title: Southern League All-Star Game / Most Valuable Player Award
caption_attribution_description: Scott Van Slyke
context_page_description: The Southern League All-Star Game is an annual baseball game sanctioned by Minor League Baseball between professional players from the teams of the Double-A Southern League. Each division, North and South, fields a team composed of players in their respective divisions as voted on by the managers, general managers, and broadcasters from each of the league's 10 clubs.
  From the first All-Star Game in 1964 through 1998, the event predominantly consisted of a single team of the league's All-Stars versus a Major League Baseball team. The division versus division format has been used since 1999. No game was held from 1991 to 1995 as the Southern League and the other two Double-A leagues, the Eastern League and Texas League, participated in the Double-A All-Star Game instead.
  Traditionally, the game has taken place during the three-day All-Star break between the first and second halves of the season. The game is meant to mark the halfway-point in the season with the first 70 games being played before and the remaining 70 after. Some additional events, such as the Home Run Derby and All-Star Fan Fest take place each year during this break in the regular season.
context_section_description: The Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is bestowed on the player with the best performance at each All-Star Game. No award was given in the first eight games (1964–1971) or in 1973's rain-shortened game, but it has been awarded continuously since 1974. Eight players from the Birmingham Barons have been selected for the MVP Award, more than any other team in the league. The Jacksonville Expos/Suns have the second-most with five MVPs. Seven players from the Chicago White Sox organization have won the MVP Award, the most of any Major League Baseball organization. They are followed by the Detroit Tigers with five MVPs and the Atlanta Braves and Florida Marlins with four winners each. The only player to win the MVP Award more than once is Birmingham's Jeff Inglin, who won back-to-back in 1999 and 2000.
caption: Scott Van Slyke, 2011 MVP
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