2023 MLB Season Trivia
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65 free 2023 MLB Season trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This 2023 MLB trivia quiz covers the whole baseball year, from the World Baseball Classic in March to the free-agent bombshell in December. In between: the first season with a pitch clock, bigger bases and shift limits, a perfect game, three no-hitters, a team that started 13-0, a team that lost 112 games, and a World Series between two wild cards that ended with a first-ever title. The questions run easy to expert. The openers are the ones any fan will get: who won the World Series, who was MVP, which star signed for $700 million. From there it digs into the records set that year, the numbers behind them, the awards, the draft, the All-Star Game in Seattle and the trades and retirements that closed the season. Numeric answers are not always the middle option, so guessing will not save you. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's season, series and player articles, and each question shows its source once you have answered. Play through, share your score, and then try the general MLB and baseball quizzes for the history that came before 2023.
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Q 01The Texas Rangers, first-time World Series winners in 2023, began in 1961 as which expansion team?
Washington Senators
Washington Senators was the club's name until it moved to Arlington for the 1972 season; as the Rangers it lost the World Series in 2010 and 2011 before finally winning one in 2023.
Q 02Which pitcher won the 2023 World Series clincher?
Nathan Eovaldi
Nathan Eovaldi walked five but stranded every runner across six scoreless innings in Game 5; the Rangers won all six of his starts that postseason, and the Series was over in five games.
Q 03Who was named 2023 World Series MVP, becoming the first player to win the award in both leagues?
Corey Seager
Corey Seager hit .286 with three home runs in the Series, including a game-tying two-run shot in the ninth inning of Game 1; his first World Series MVP had come with the Dodgers in 2020.
Q 04Who hit the walk-off home run in the 11th inning of Game 1 of the 2023 World Series?
Adolis García
Adolis García's walk-off homer in the 11th gave him 22 RBI for the postseason, breaking David Freese's 2011 record. An oblique injury in Game 3 knocked him off the roster before Game 4.
Q 05Which manager won his fourth World Series in 2023, only the third to win one in each league?
Bruce Bochy
Bruce Bochy had been retired for three seasons when he agreed to return to the dugout; with three earlier titles as Giants manager, he joined Sparky Anderson and Tony La Russa as winners in both leagues.
Q 06Which reliever won his third straight World Series in 2023, each with a different team?
Will Smith
Will Smith got the last out of the 2021 Series for Atlanta, was traded the next August to that year's eventual champions, then signed with Texas: the first player to win three straight titles with three teams.
Q 07The 2023 Rangers went a record 11–0 in which kind of postseason game?
Road
Road games were where Texas was perfect: 11–0 away from home, beating the old best of 8–0 by the 1996 Yankees, yet only 2–4 in its own ballpark on the way to the title.
Q 08Which player won his second unanimous AL MVP in 2023, the first person ever to win two unanimous MVPs?
Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani, also unanimous in 2021, led the AL in home runs while posting a 3.14 ERA as a pitcher, yet the Angels finished under .500 in all six of his seasons with them.
Q 09Who won the 2023 National League MVP, making it the first year both MVPs were chosen unanimously?
Ronald Acuña Jr.
Ronald Acuña Jr. had torn a knee ligament in July 2021 and could only watch as the Braves won that year's World Series; in 2023 he hit .337 and piled up 217 hits and 149 runs.
Q 10The 2023 NL MVP's 40–70 season outgrew the 40–40 club, founded in 1988 by which slugger?
Jose Canseco
Jose Canseco predicted his 40–40 season in 1988 without realising nobody had ever done it; 35 years later the NL MVP stretched the idea to 41 home runs and 73 steals.
Q 11Which pitcher won the 2023 NL Cy Young Award, his second, having taken the AL version in 2018?
Blake Snell
Blake Snell's 2.25 ERA led the majors in 2023, though so did his 99 walks; he then turned down the Padres' qualifying offer and signed with the Giants the next spring.
Q 12Who won the 2023 American League Cy Young Award by unanimous vote?
Gerrit Cole
Gerrit Cole had twice finished runner-up before taking all 30 first-place votes; he sealed it by shutting out Toronto in his final start and became the first Yankee to win since Roger Clemens in 2001.
Q 13Who won the 2023 American League Rookie of the Year Award?
Gunnar Henderson
Q 21Which team opened 2023 with 13 straight wins, tying the modern-era record for the best start to a season?
Tampa Bay Rays
The Tampa Bay Rays matched the 13–0 starts of the 1982 Braves and 1987 Brewers, yet finished second in the AL East and were swept out of the Wild Card Series by Texas.
Q 22Which team lost 112 games in 2023, the most in the majors that year?
Oakland Athletics
The Oakland Athletics went 50–112 after a 10–45 start, their worst winning percentage since 1919; in June nearly 28,000 fans filled the Coliseum for a 'reverse boycott' protest against the team's ownership.
Q 23In November 2023, MLB owners unanimously approved the Athletics' relocation to which city?
Las Vegas
Gunnar Henderson was batting .170 in mid-May before turning his season around to take all 30 first-place votes, the first Oriole to win the award since Gregg Olson in 1989.
Q 14Who won the 2023 National League Rookie of the Year Award?
Corbin Carroll
Corbin Carroll, a unanimous pick, was the first rookie ever with 25 home runs and 50 stolen bases, and had signed an eight-year, $111 million extension in March after just 32 big-league games.
Q 15Which manager won the 2023 NL Manager of the Year Award after taking Miami to the playoffs?
Skip Schumaker
Skip Schumaker, hired to replace Don Mattingly, added 15 wins in his first season as a manager for Miami's first full-season playoff berth since 2003; a year later the team lost 100 games and he left.
Q 16Which manager won the 2023 American League Manager of the Year Award after a 101-win season?
Brandon Hyde
Brandon Hyde's Baltimore club had lost 110 games just two years earlier; in 2023 it won 101 and took its first AL East title since 2014.
Q 17Which Yankees pitcher threw the 24th perfect game in MLB history on June 28, 2023?
Domingo Germán
Domingo Germán retired all 27 batters he faced, the first perfect game by a Dominican-born pitcher and the majors' first in eleven years; five weeks later he was placed on the restricted list after a clubhouse incident.
Q 18Which 2023 rule change cut the average MLB game by more than 20 minutes?
The pitch clock
The pitch clock gave pitchers 15 seconds with nobody on and 20 with a runner aboard, and a batter not ready with eight seconds left was charged a strike; the average game shrank by 24 minutes.
Q 19MLB's 2023 rule changes enlarged which piece of equipment from 15 inches across to 18?
The bases
The bases grew to 18-inch squares, trimming the distance between them by 4.5 inches to cut collisions and invite steals; stolen bases jumped from 2,486 to 3,503, the most since 1987.
Q 20Under MLB's 2023 rules, what is called if a third pickoff attempt in one plate appearance fails?
A balk
A balk is called, so every runner moves up a base: pitchers get two free step-offs or pickoff throws per plate appearance, and a third must retire the runner; the count resets if a runner advances.
Las Vegas was approved 30–0 at the owners' meeting on November 16, 2023, five months after Nevada's governor signed a $380 million stadium-funding bill for a ballpark on the Strip.
Q 24Whose ninth-inning homer in the 2023 Braves' regular-season finale tied the MLB team record?
Marcell Ozuna
Marcell Ozuna, who was batting .085 at the end of April, hit his 40th homer for Atlanta's 307th, matching the 2019 record; the club's .501 slugging percentage was the first above .500 in MLB history.
Q 25Which Braves starter led the majors with 20 wins in 2023?
Spencer Strider
Spencer Strider went 20–5 for a 104-win club, then lost both of his Division Series starts as Atlanta went out at that stage for the second straight year.
Q 26MLB's 2023 schedule was the first in which every club did what?
Faced all 29 others
Faced all 29 others: the new balanced schedule cut division games from 76 to 52 and raised interleague games from 20 to 46, and all 30 clubs opened on the same day for the first time since 1968.
Q 27Where did the Giants and Padres play a two-game 'MLB World Tour' series in April 2023?
Mexico City
Mexico City sits higher than Denver, and the thin air showed: the Padres won the opener 16–11 as the teams hit 11 home runs, with a record-tying 10 different players going deep.
Q 28Which city hosted the 2023 MLB All-Star Game?
Seattle
Seattle hosted for the third time; when its ballpark last staged the game in 2001, under the name Safeco Field, Cal Ripken Jr. homered and was named MVP in his final All-Star appearance.
Q 29Which Rockies catcher's eighth-inning homer gave the NL its first All-Star win since 2012?
Elias Díaz
Elias Díaz, Colorado's only All-Star, hit a two-run homer to end a run of nine straight American League wins and was named MVP; Pittsburgh had cut him loose after the 2019 season.
Q 30Who won the 2023 Home Run Derby?
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had hit a record 91 homers in the 2019 Derby and still lost the final; in 2023 he beat Randy Arozarena 25–23, joining his father, the 2007 champion, as the first father-son winners.