The Rangers 2020 Award Show honored seven members of the organization for their performance on and off the field during the season. This year's ceremony was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic and aired on FOX Sports Southwest Friday at 6 p.m. CT.

Hosted by FSSW broadcasters Emily Jones and John Rhadigan, the Texas Rangers Virtual Awards Show featured seven presentations honoring individuals for their accomplishments in 2020, based on voting from the Dallas-Fort Worth chapter of the Baseball Writers' Association of America:

Harold McKinney Good Guy Award: Manager Chris Woodward
Woodward was tested in his second season as Rangers manager. From navigating the pandemic-shortened 60-game season with a roster undergoing a rebuild, to off-the-field challenges as the nation battled social injustice, Woodward was always there to take on the tough questions.

"I'm obviously humbled [to be recognized by the writers]," Woodward said. "I give as much credit to the media for having to deal with what we had to deal with last year. I know I had to get on [Zoom press conferences] twice a day, but they made it so much easier for me, just with their back and forth.

"I know it was tough on everybody, but we still had to deal with it, and I just appreciated everybody. It was a difficult time for the country and for the world, to know that all that was going on, especially with the social injustice and everything. There was a lot of tough topics last year, so I really appreciated the way the media handled me as well."

Jim Sundberg Community Achievement Award: Bench coach Don Wakamatsu
Wakamatsu's WakWay Foundation works with the Rangers organization to feed children and families in the DFW area through education and nutrition. He also uses fruit from his family’s farm in Oregon as part of the nutrition programs.

Wakamatsu loves getting the players involved in the community efforts in the area, especially during a time like this. This year they did a few different projects because of the pandemic restrictions.

• Family influence led to charity for Wakamatsu

“I've been fortunate to be in the game a long time and I see where these guys now have as much power and a platform to for good,” Wakamatsu said. “So we came up with a cool, fun project where guys made their own jams and hand signed them and we ended up giving away 4000 gift packs. Some of the players went out there and hand delivered those, so I think it meant a lot to the community.

“That's why we started in the first place too, is to just to get a little bit more continuity and involvement where the players were able to go out and so many guys stepped up.”

The foundation has also been working on more innovative farming techniques and figuring out how to fix a “broken food system” so that low-income families in inner cities can get food.

“We're transitioning into a little bit more of job creation,” Wakamatsu added. “We were able to give away a lot of food and vegetables and we realized that it’s still kind of a broken system and we need to give self work to a lot of people out there.”

Rangers Player of the Year: Isiah Kiner-Falefa
Kiner-Falefa highlighted the on-field honors, winning the Rangers Player of the Year Award after a Gold Glove at third base in 2020. He also led the team in batting average, runs (28), hits (59), multi-hit games (16) and total bases (78).

“Last year, I was on the outside looking in, kind of just trying to make it with the utility role player,” Kiner-Falefa said. “In my head, this was what I was aiming for, the position I'm in right now [at shortstop]. The first step was to win the utility job and then the next step was to be the third baseman. I just understood that things aren't just given to you, so you got to do things one by one and looking back I'm just so proud of myself.

Woodward said it’s a “beautiful story” how Kiner-Falefa went from playing in a utility role most of his first two year in the Majors to being the Player of the Year for the club.

“It's just how you earn a spot,” Woodward said of Kiner-Falefa. “That's honestly the atmosphere that I've been trying to create for the last couple of years. We have a great opportunity to kind of show that going into spring, where nobody's given anything.”

Rangers Rookie of the Year: Jonathan Hernández
Hernández led not only rookie relievers, but all Major League relievers in innings pitched at 31 in 2020. In 27 total appearances, he went 5-1 with a 2.90 ERA.

Hernández thrived coming out of the bullpen for the Rangers, and the right-hander hopes to continue working in a relief role in '21. But Woodward emphasized that he hopes to use Hernández in a few different roles this coming season.

Hernández may be used in more multiple-inning roles out of the bullpen next season to get a feel for his role in the future.

“I definitely want to stretch him out a little bit,” Woodward said. “He's such a weapon. There's so many ways we can use him. If he starts seeing the pitches the way he did last year, then we can't rule out [starting] long term. If he’s as consistent in the strike zone as he was last year, I'm going to have to have a really healthy conversation about it.”

Other honors that were handed out on Friday:

Mark Holtz Texas Rangers Alumni Award: Former player and executive Eddie Robinson
Richard Durrett Hardest Working Man: Jose Trevino
Rangers Pitcher of the Year: Lance Lynn