Quiz: Can You Name Every MLB All-Star Game MVP Since 2000?

The Midsummer Classic is where the game's biggest stars shine brightest.

Phillies designated hitter Kyle Schwarber won MVP honors at the 2025 MLB All-Star Game. | Brett Davis / USA TODAY Network

By most casual fans' measure, MLB's All-Star Game is the best version of its kind across America's major sports. Basketball's All-Star contests are defense (and intensity) optional, and the NFL's Pro Bowl has become something of a joke that might be beyond saving.

Baseball, on the other hand, gets things right in this regard. Sure, there are always arguments about who should (or shouldn't) have made the team, but as far as the actual game itself, it's typically as entertaining a product as an exhibition game can be (there's a reason they call it the Midsummer Classic, after all).

MLB's first All-Star Game was held in 1933, and it wasn't until 1962 that the All-Star Game MVP award was conceived. That season, there were two All-Star Games, and thus two MVPs: Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills won the first, and Angels outfielder Leon Wagner won the second. In the decade that followed, nine of the next 10 All-Star Game MVPs were won by future Hall of Famers, a group that includes Willie Mays, Brooks Robinson, Juan Marichal, Frank Robinson and Joe Morgan.

Though the game is just an exhibition, the award still carries tremendous weight. Looking back on more contemporary iterations of the event, can you name every All-Star Game MVP this century? Test your knowledge below.

The 2026 MLB All-Star Game will be held at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. This will be the first time the event has been held in this venue, but the fourth time the Phillies have hosted, most recently in 1996 at their then-home, Veterans Stadium.

The full rosters for this year's game were announced on July 4. Four Dodgers were elected starters in the National League, while the Phillies led all teams with six total selections. Mike Trout was voted in as a starter for the American League, earning his 12th career All-Star nod—an achievement made more meaningful by the fact that this year's game will take place nearby his hometown of Millville, N.J.

The 2026 All-Star Game will take place on July 14, when someone will join the list of names above in hallowed territory as the MVP of the latest Midsummer Classic.