Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award

The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award is an annual Major League Baseball award given to one outstanding player in the American League and one in the National League. Since 1931, it has been awarded by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. The winners receive the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, which became the official name of the award in 1944, in honor of the first MLB commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who served from 1920 until his death on November 25, 1944.
MVP voting takes place before the postseason, but the results are not announced until after the World Series. The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961. The BBWAA does not offer a clear-cut definition of what "most valuable" means, instead leaving the judgment to the individual voters.
First basemen, with 34 winners, have won the most MVPs among infielders, followed by second basemen , third basemen , and shortstops . Of the 25 pitchers who have won the award, 15 are right-handed while 10 are left-handed. Walter Johnson, Carl Hubbell, and Hal Newhouser are the only pitchers who have won multiple times, Newhouser winning consecutively in 1944 and 1945.
Hank Greenberg, Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions, while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions. Barry Bonds has won the most often and the most consecutively . Jimmie Foxx was the first player to win multiple times; Ten players have won three times, and 19 have won twice. Frank Robinson is the only player to win the award in both the American and National Leagues.
The award's only tie occurred in the National League in 1979, when Keith Hernandez and Willie Stargell received an equal number of points. There have been 18 unanimous winners, who received all the first-place votes. The New York Yankees have the most winning players with 22, followed by the St. Louis Cardinals with 17 winners. The award has never been presented to a member of the following three teams: Arizona Diamondbacks, New York Mets, and Tampa Bay Rays.
In recent decades, pitchers have rarely won the award. When Justin Verlander won the AL award in 2011, he became the first pitcher in either league to be named the MVP since Dennis Eckersley in 1992. Verlander also became the first starting pitcher to win this award since Roger Clemens accomplished the feat in 1986. The National League went even longer without an MVP award to a pitcher. After Bob Gibson won in 1968, no pitcher in that league was named MVP until Clayton Kershaw in 2014.

Chalmers Award (1911–1914)

Before the 1910 season, Hugh Chalmers of Chalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highest batting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season. The 1910 race for best average in the American League was between the Detroit Tigers' widely disliked Ty Cobb and Nap Lajoie of the Cleveland Indians. On the last day of the season, Lajoie overtook Cobb's batting average with seven bunt hits against the St. Louis Browns. American League President Ban Johnson said a recalculation showed that Cobb had won the race anyway, and Chalmers ended up awarding cars to both players.
The following season, Chalmers created the Chalmers Award. A committee of baseball writers were to convene after the season to determine the "most important and useful player to the club and to the league". Since the award was not as effective at advertising as Chalmers had hoped, it was discontinued after 1914.

Year	American League winner	Team	Position	National League winner	Team	Position	Ref
		Detroit Tigers	OF		Chicago Cubs	OF
		Boston Red Sox	OF			2B
			RHP			1B
			2B			2B

League Awards (1922–1929)

In 1922 the American League created a new award to honor "the baseball player who is of the greatest all-around service to his club". Winners, voted on by a committee of eight baseball writers chaired by James Crusinberry, received a bronze medal and a cash prize. Voters were required to select one player from each team and player-coaches and prior award winners were ineligible. Famously, these criteria resulted in Babe Ruth winning only a single MVP award before it was dropped after 1928. The National League award, without these restrictions, lasted from 1924 to 1929.

Year	American League winner	Team	Position	National League winner	Team	Position	Ref
			1B	—
		New York Yankees	OF	—
			RHP			RHP
			SS		St. Louis Cardinals	2B
		Cleveland Indians	1B		St. Louis Cardinals	C
		New York Yankees	1B		Pittsburgh Pirates	OF
			C		St. Louis Cardinals	1B
	—				Chicago Cubs	2B

Baseball Writers' Association of America's Most Valuable Player (1931–present)

The BBWAA first awarded the modern MVP after the 1931 season, adopting the format the National League used to distribute its league award. One writer in each city with a team filled out a ten-place ballot, with ten points for the recipient of a first-place vote, nine for a second-place vote, and so on. In 1938, the BBWAA raised the number of voters to three per city and gave 14 points for a first-place vote. The only significant change since then occurred in 1961, when the number of voters was reduced to two per league city.
was the first player to win three MVP awards.|alt=A man is pictured from his belt up looking to the left of the camera. His button-down baseball jersey says "RED SOX" across it and he is wearing a baseball hat with a "B".
, to date the only National League relief pitcher to be named MVP won it in 1950.
won the award in 1954 and 1965 with the same team in different cities.|alt=The face of a dark-skinned man who is smiling widely. The letters "S" and "F" overlap on his hat.
' seven MVPs are the most for any individual player.|alt=An African-American man looks just right of the camera. His helmet and white jersey both have an orange "S" over "F" logo on them. The man's left arm is crossed over his body and his right is out of the picture. There is a black and orange glove on his left hand.
won the award with two different teams at two different positions.|alt=A Hispanic man walking while shouting at someone out of the picture. His helmet is emblazoned with a white "N" and "Y" intertwined, and "NEW YORK" is stitched in black letters across his button-down jersey. The player is holding a black baseball bat almost vertically with black, gray, and white gloves.
won the award three times, at first base with the St. Louis Cardinals.|alt=A right-handed batter is at the plate, looking toward the pitcher's mound. Wearing a red uniform and white pants, there is a crowd behind him with jerseys of various colors.
was the winner of back-to-back AL Awards from 2012–13.
won the AL MVP in 2015.
was the winner of the NL MVP Award in 2018.

Year	American League winner	Team	Position	National League winner	Team	Position	Ref
	^†	*	LHP	^†	St. Louis Cardinals*	2B
	^†		1B	^†	Philadelphia Phillies	OF
	^†		1B	^†	*	LHP
	^†	Detroit Tigers*	C	^†	St. Louis Cardinals*	RHP
	^†§	Detroit Tigers*	1B	^†	Chicago Cubs*	C
	^†	New York Yankees*	1B	^†§	*	LHP
	^†	Detroit Tigers	2B	^†	St. Louis Cardinals	OF
	^†	Boston Red Sox	1B	^†	Cincinnati Reds	C
	^†	New York Yankees*	OF		Cincinnati Reds*	RHP
	^†	Detroit Tigers*	OF		Cincinnati Reds*	1B
	^†	New York Yankees*	OF		*	1B
	^†	New York Yankees*	2B		St. Louis Cardinals*	RHP
		New York Yankees*	RHP	^†	St. Louis Cardinals*	OF
	^†	Detroit Tigers	LHP		St. Louis Cardinals*	SS
	^†	Detroit Tigers*	LHP		Chicago Cubs*	1B
	^†	Boston Red Sox*	OF	^†	St. Louis Cardinals*	1B
	^†	New York Yankees*	OF			3B
	^†	Cleveland Indians*	SS	^†	St. Louis Cardinals	OF
	^†	Boston Red Sox	OF	^†	*	2B
	^†	New York Yankees*	SS		Philadelphia Phillies*	RHP
	^†	New York Yankees*	C	^†		C
			LHP		Chicago Cubs	OF
	^§	Cleveland Indians	3B	^†	*	C
	^†	New York Yankees	C	^†	*	OF
	^†	New York Yankees*	C	^†	*	C
	^†§	New York Yankees*	OF		*	RHP
	^†	New York Yankees*	OF	^†	*	OF
		Boston Red Sox	OF	^†	Chicago Cubs	SS
	^†	Chicago White Sox*	2B	^†	Chicago Cubs	SS
		New York Yankees*	OF		Pittsburgh Pirates*	SS
		New York Yankees*	OF	^†	Cincinnati Reds*	OF
	^†	New York Yankees*	OF		Los Angeles Dodgers	SS
		New York Yankees*	C	^†	Los Angeles Dodgers*	LHP
	^†	Baltimore Orioles	3B		St. Louis Cardinals*	3B
		Minnesota Twins*	SS	^†	San Francisco Giants	OF
	^†§	Baltimore Orioles*	OF	^†	Pittsburgh Pirates	OF
	^†	Boston Red Sox*	OF	^†§	St. Louis Cardinals*	1B
	^§	Detroit Tigers*	RHP	^†	St. Louis Cardinals*	RHP
	^†	Minnesota Twins	3B	^†	San Francisco Giants	1B
		Baltimore Orioles*	1B	^†	Cincinnati Reds*	C
		Oakland Athletics	LHP	^†	St. Louis Cardinals	3B
		Chicago White Sox	1B	^†	Cincinnati Reds*	C
	^†§	Oakland Athletics*	OF		Cincinnati Reds	OF
		Texas Rangers	OF		Los Angeles Dodgers*	1B
		Boston Red Sox*	OF	^†	Cincinnati Reds*	2B
		New York Yankees*	C	^†	Cincinnati Reds*	2B
	^†	Minnesota Twins	1B		Cincinnati Reds	OF
	^†	Boston Red Sox	OF		Pittsburgh Pirates	OF
			LF/DH		St. Louis Cardinals	1B
			LF/DH	^†	Pittsburgh Pirates*	1B
	^†	Kansas City Royals*	3B	^†§	Philadelphia Phillies*	3B
	^†	Milwaukee Brewers	RHP	^†	Philadelphia Phillies	3B
	^†	Milwaukee Brewers*	SS		Atlanta Braves	OF
	^†	Baltimore Orioles*	SS		Atlanta Braves	OF
		Detroit Tigers*	LHP	^†	Chicago Cubs	2B
		New York Yankees	1B		St. Louis Cardinals*	OF
		Boston Red Sox*	RHP	^†	Philadelphia Phillies	3B
		Toronto Blue Jays	OF	^†	Chicago Cubs	OF
	^§	Oakland Athletics*	OF		Los Angeles Dodgers*	OF
	^†	Milwaukee Brewers	OF		San Francisco Giants*	OF
	^†	Oakland Athletics*	OF		Pittsburgh Pirates	OF
	^†	Baltimore Orioles	SS		Atlanta Braves*	3B
	^†	Oakland Athletics	RHP		Pittsburgh Pirates	OF
	^†§	Chicago White Sox	1B		San Francisco Giants	OF
	^†	Chicago White Sox	1B	^†§	Houston Astros	1B
		Boston Red Sox	1B	^†	Cincinnati Reds	SS
		Texas Rangers	OF	^§	San Diego Padres	3B
	^†§	Seattle Mariners	OF	^†	Colorado Rockies	OF
		Texas Rangers	OF		Chicago Cubs	OF
	^†	Texas Rangers	C	^†	Atlanta Braves*	3B
		Oakland Athletics	1B		San Francisco Giants	2B
		Seattle Mariners	OF		San Francisco Giants	OF
		Oakland Athletics	SS	^§	San Francisco Giants*	OF
		Texas Rangers	SS		San Francisco Giants	OF
	^†		OF		San Francisco Giants	OF
		New York Yankees	3B	^{^}	St. Louis Cardinals	1B
		Minnesota Twins	1B		Philadelphia Phillies	1B
		New York Yankees	3B		Philadelphia Phillies	SS
	^{^}	Boston Red Sox	2B	^{^}	St. Louis Cardinals	1B
		Minnesota Twins	C	^{^§}	St. Louis Cardinals	1B
		Texas Rangers	OF	^{^}	Cincinnati Reds	1B
	^{^}	Detroit Tigers	RHP	^{^}	Milwaukee Brewers	OF
	^{^}	Detroit Tigers*	3B	^{^}	San Francisco Giants*	C
	^{^}	Detroit Tigers	3B	^{^}	Pittsburgh Pirates	OF
	^{^§}	Los Angeles Angels	OF	^{^}	Los Angeles Dodgers	LHP
	^{^}	Toronto Blue Jays	3B	^{^§}	Washington Nationals	OF
	^{^}	Los Angeles Angels	OF	^{^}	Chicago Cubs*	3B/OF
	^{^}	Houston Astros*	2B	^{^}	Miami Marlins	OF
	^{^}	Boston Red Sox*	OF	^{^}	Milwaukee Brewers	OF
	^{^}	Los Angeles Angels	OF	^{^}	Los Angeles Dodgers	OF

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