The American League champion Royals were recognized with MLB.com GIBBY Awards for Closer, Executive and Setup Man of the Year as well as top Postseason Storyline on Saturday night.

No one who was in the Bronx on the evening of Sept. 25 will ever forget Derek Jeter’s final Yankee Stadium at-bat, and the captain’s farewell moment in pinstripes has been fittingly recognized in the 2014 Greatest In Baseball Yearly (GIBBY) Award voting.

On Saturday, Clayton Kershaw added to his staggering haul of offseason honors by winning three Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards (GIBBYs), topped by the premier GIBBY, Most Valuable Major Leaguer.

For the third time in five seasons, 2014 belonged to the Giants, whose World Series crown matched those from ’10 and ’12. While this remarkable achievement is acknowledged in MLB.com’s 13th annual GIBBYs — the Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards — the biggest individual winner is the ace of Los Angeles’ National League West champions.

MLB.com columnist Phil Rogers breaks down some of the most intriguing storylines heading into the upcoming Winter Meetings, which start on Monday in San Diego.

Four Giants captured prestigious MLB.com GIBBY Awards, reflecting the quality and excitement of the events that brought San Francisco its third World Series title in five seasons.

Less than three full seasons into his Major League career, Braves shortstop Andrelton Simmons has already compiled a collection of defensive honors that would make a veteran proud. Simmons added another honor to his portfolio, recognized as the Defensive Player of the Year when MLB.com’s Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards (GIBBY) winners were revealed Saturday night on MLB.com and MLB Network.

Jose Altuve, who won the American League batting crown and Silver Slugger Award at second base, has added a GIBBY to his resume. The 5-foot-6 dynamo won the award for Breakout Everyday Player of the Year after leading the Majors with a .341 batting average and setting a club record with 225 hits.

The Yankees will be heading to the Winter Meetings as noisemakers, having created some ripples with a busy Friday afternoon that saw them sign left-handed reliever Andrew Miller to a four-year, $36 million deal and trigger a three-team trade to acquire shortstop Didi Gregorius from the D-backs.

One of the most poignant moments at Fenway Park in 2014 happened in the stands, when a boy did something so kind that it wound up being worthy of a Greatness in Baseball Yearly (GIBBY) Award.

The Red Sox provided a personal touch to their negotiations with free agent Jon Lester on Friday when owner John Henry flew to Atlanta to visit with the lefty, MLB.com has confirmed.

Jean Segura scampered all the way from first to home to complete Milwaukee’s three-run wild pitch on June 22 in Colorado, a bizarre play that was voted the Oddity of the Year in the MLB.com Greatness in Baseball Yearly Awards.

Andrew Miller’s recent success bears testament to his determination. He dealt with six years of failure, but was able to reinvent himself enough that he signed a four-year, $36 million free-agent contract with the Yankees as a late-inning reliever.

The 16-member Golden Era Committee will have a chance to add to that legacy when it votes Monday on a ballot that includes nine players and one executive whose careers were prominent from 1947-72. Or perhaps it won’t. The election is on Monday morning with a possible announcement scheduled for the first day of the Winter Meetings.

Outfielder Steven Souza Jr. played in only 21 Major League games, but he certainly had an impact on the Nationals this year. In the final game of the regular season, he made a spectacular catch for the final out to save Jordan Zimmermann’s no-hitter, a game the Nationals won, 1-0, over the Marlins. The history-saving grab earned Souza a Greatness in Baseball Yearly (GIBBY) Award for Play of the Year.

It’s hard to believe now, after the 2014 season he had, but there were actually some questions back in the spring about whether Johnny Cueto would be durable enough to get through the year healthy for the Reds. Cincinnati’s ace won the Greatness in Baseball Yearly (GIBBY) Award for Bounceback Player of the Year after going 20-9 with 2.25 ERA.

To get to where David Ortiz is this weekend — hosting his seventh annual Celebrity Golf Classict in Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic — there was a sobering reality that came from a hospital visit roughly nine years ago. It led to him starting the David Ortiz Children’s Fund, which is committed to financing heart surgery for kids in need.