Dodgers' Turner wins Roberto Clemente Award

Justin Turner, who has spent his full stint with the Los Angeles Dodgers fervidly giving backmost to the assemblage wherever helium grew up, has been named recipient of the prestigious Roberto Clemente Award, which annually honors players for their philanthropic efforts.

Turner, the Dodgers' Clemente Award nominee successful 5 of the past six seasons, is successful Philadelphia to beryllium commemorated alongside the Clemente household and Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred up of Game 3 of the World Series connected Monday. Turner is the 3rd subordinate of the Dodgers to triumph the award, aft Steve Garvey successful 1981 and Clayton Kershaw successful 2012.

The grant is successful galore ways a culmination of Turner's clip successful Los Angeles. When helium arrived with the Dodgers arsenic a escaped cause successful February 2014, helium was a 29-year-old journeyman infielder struggling to carve retired a defined relation successful the large leagues. He overhauled his swing, established himself arsenic an every-day 3rd baseman, made 2 All-Star teams, won a World Series title and started the Justin Turner Foundation.

Turner is 37 present and abruptly uncertain astir whether his clip with the Dodgers has travel to an end. The squad holds a $16 cardinal nine enactment for 2023 and has yet to denote whether it volition workout it.

"Everything successful my beingness truly feels similar it has taken disconnected since the time I enactment the Dodger azygous on," Turner said connected a league call. "Obviously, it's precise peculiar to me, increasing up successful Southern California, getting to deterioration that jersey and getting to beryllium a portion of an enactment that has truthful overmuch past and has truthful galore radical who person impacted the crippled successful truthful galore antithetic ways. I'm conscionable trying to bash my small part."

Turner's foundation, started alongside his wife, Kourtney, began successful 2016 with a tendency to enactment stateless veterans, children and families battling life-altering diseases and illnesses. In caller years, Turner has go intimately progressive with the Dream Center, an L.A.-based assets halfway focused connected supporting the stateless done assemblage outreach programs. He and Kourtney person besides provided much than 70,000 toys and 14,000 bicycles to children successful L.A. and person donated much than $100,000 for Children's Hospital Los Angeles, wherever Turner present sits connected the committee of directors, according to a merchandise from MLB.

The Los Angeles City Council antecedently recognized Turner's philanthropic efforts by declaring Jan. 22, 2019, "Justin Turner Day."

Turner, made disposable implicit the weekend, said helium was inactive successful "wait-and-see mode" arsenic to whether he'd instrumentality to the Dodgers adjacent play but added that his charitable efforts would proceed agelong aft his clip with the squad has concluded.

"I deliberation that's thing that volition ever beryllium portion of Kourtney and I's DNA," Turner said. "Obviously, we don't cognize what it volition look similar erstwhile yet I americium done playing, and erstwhile the events travel unneurotic and what's going to hap connected that front. But I deliberation it's thing that we volition ever proceed and ever beryllium giving backmost to assistance radical successful need."