Yordan Alvarez of the Houston Astros and Pete Crow-Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs have been named the A.L. and N.L. Most Valuable Players, respectively. Each was a unanimous winner.
Finishing in second place in the American League was Junior Caminero of the Rays, who got 27 second place votes and three third place votes. Bobby Witt, Jr., narrowly edged out Cam Schlittler for third place, while Pete Alonso finished in fifth place.
Ezequiel Duran of the Texas Rangers appeared on two ballots — Sam Blum
had him in 10th place on his ballot, and Evan Grant put him 9th.
As far as the more idiosyncratic votes go, Dillon Dingler of the Tigers appeared on two ballots, but one of those, by Adam Jude of the Seattle Times, had him fifth. Judge was one of two voters who omitted Schlittler altogether. Munetaka Murakami appeared on one ballot, and was sixth on that ballot. That ballot, by Paul Hoynes, was the other ballot that didn’t include Schlittler.
The complete A.L. results can be found here.
On the National League side, Shohei Ohtani finished in second place, getting 26 second place votes, two third place votes and two fourth place votes. Brice Turant, Elly de la Cruz and Jacob Misiorowski rounded out the top five.
Kyle Schwarber finished 11th, appearing on just 10 ballots, but did get a second place vote, from Ricke Cerrone of Baseball Digest. He also was the lone voter to have the Braves’ Ozzie Albies on his ballot — he put Albies sixth, Alec Burleson 9th, and Brandon Lowe 10th. Andy Pages and Jordan Walker each appeared on one ballot apiece, and on each they got a 6th place vote. Sal Stewart got one seventh place vote. Matt Olson got exactly one vote in every spot on the ballot except first and second, where he didn’t get any votes, and 9th, where he got three votes.
The full National League results can be found here.
