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This article is about the regular season award. For other MVP awards given by MLB, seeMajor League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (disambiguation).

Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (MVP)
History
The Most Valuable Player Award given toHank Aaron in 1957
Sport	Baseball
League	Major League Baseball
Awarded for	Regular seasonmost valuable player ofAmerican League andNational League
Country	United States, Canada
Presented by	Baseball Writers' Association of America
First award	1931
Most recent	Shohei Ohtani (NL) Aaron Judge (AL)

TheMajor League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annualMajor League Baseball (MLB) award given to one outstanding player in theAmerican League and one in theNational League. The award has been presented by theBaseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) since 1931.

History

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Since 1931, theBaseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) has bestowed amost valuable player award to a player in theNational League and a player in theAmerican League. Before 1931, two similar awards were issued: the League Award was issued during 1922–1928 in the American League and during 1924–1929 in the National League.^[1] During 1911–1914, the Chalmers Award was issued to a player in each league.^[2] Criteria and a list of winners for these two earlier awards are detailed in below sections.

MVP voting takes place before thepostseason, but the results are not announced until after theWorld Series. The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961.^[3] The BBWAA does not offer a clear-cut definition of what "most valuable" means, instead leaving the judgment to the individual voters.^[4]^[5]

In 1944, the award was named afterKenesaw Mountain Landis, the firstCommissioner of Baseball, who served from 1920 until his death on November 25, 1944.^[6]^[7] Formally named the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award, that naming appeared on a plaque given to winning players.^[8] Starting in 2020, Landis' name no longer appears on the MVP plaque,^[9] after the BBWAA received complaints from several former MVP winners about Landis' role against theintegration of MLB.^[10]^[11]

First basemen, with 35 winners, have won the most MVPs amonginfielders, followed bysecond basemen (16),third basemen (15), andshortstops (15). Of the 25pitchers who have won the award, 15 areright-handed while 10 areleft-handed.Walter Johnson,Carl Hubbell, andHal Newhouser are the only pitchers who have won multiple times, with Newhouser winning consecutively in 1944 and 1945.^[12]^[13]

Hank Greenberg,Stan Musial,Alex Rodriguez, andRobin Yount have won at different positions,^[12] while Rodriguez is the only player who has won the award with two different teams at two different positions.^[14] Rodriguez andAndre Dawson are the only players to win the award while on a last-place team, the2003 Texas Rangers and1987 Chicago Cubs, respectively.Barry Bonds has won the most often (seven times) and the most consecutively (four from 2001 to 2004).^[15]Jimmie Foxx was the first player to win multiple times.^[16] Ten players have won three times, and 19 have won twice.^[17]Frank Robinson andShohei Ohtani are the only players to win the award in both the American and National Leagues, with Ohtani being the first to win in both leagues in consecutive seasons.

The award's only tie occurred in theNational League in 1979, whenKeith Hernandez andWillie Stargell received an equal number of points.^[12]^[18] There have been 23 unanimous winners, who received all the first-place votes.^[3] TheNew York Yankees have the most winning players with 24, followed by theSt. Louis Cardinals with 21 winners. The award has never been presented to a member of the following three teams:Arizona Diamondbacks,New York Mets, andTampa Bay Rays.

In recent decades, pitchers have rarely won the award. When Ohtani won the AL award in 2021, he became the first pitcher in either league to be named the MVP sinceClayton Kershaw in 2014, and the first in the American League sinceJustin Verlander in 2011. Ohtani also became the firsttwo-way player to win the award^[19] and in 2023, he became the first player in MLB history to win MVP by unanimous vote twice.^[20] Since the creation of theCy Young Award in 1956, he is the only pitcher to win an MVP award without winning a Cy Young in the same year (Don Newcombe,Sandy Koufax,Bob Gibson,Denny McLain,Vida Blue,Rollie Fingers,Willie Hernández,Roger Clemens,Dennis Eckersley, Verlander, and Kershaw all won a Cy Young award in their MVP seasons). Ohtani is also the only MVP winner to have played most of his games as adesignated hitter (DH), a position that normally does not contribute on defense. In 2024, after winning his third career unanimous MVP award, Ohtani became the first MVP winner to have played exclusively as a DH in a season. To date, Ohtani is the only player to win both the MVP and theEdgar Martínez Award, an award given to the most outstanding DH in a season.

There was no award given by either league in 1930, which meant that one of the single greatest performances ever went unheralded whenHack Wilson of theChicago Cubs set the current MLB record for RBI with 191.^[21] He also batted .356 and set the NL record with 56 HRs, a record which stood for 68 years untilMark McGwire (70) andSammy Sosa (66) both eclipsed him.^[22]^[23]

Key

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Year	Links to the article about the corresponding Major League Baseball season
†	Member of theNational Baseball Hall of Fame as a player^[24]^[25]
^	Player is still active^[a]
§	Unanimous selection^[b]^[3]
Player(X)	Denotes winning player and number of times they had won the award at that point
*	Team won the league pennant
P	Pitcher (RHP indicates right-handed; LHP indicates left-handed)
C	Catcher
1B	First baseman
2B	Second baseman
3B	Third baseman
SS	Shortstop
OF	Outfielder
DH	Designated hitter

Chalmers Award (1911–1914)

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Ty Cobb looking just to the left of the camera. — Ty Cobb won the first American League Chalmers Award in 1911 and was at the center of the controversy over the previous season's award.

Before the1910 season, Hugh Chalmers ofChalmers Automobile announced he would present a Chalmers Model 30 automobile to the player with the highestbatting average in Major League Baseball at the end of the season. The1910 race for best average in the American League was between theDetroit Tigers' widely disliked^[3]^[26]^[27]Ty Cobb andNap Lajoie of theCleveland Indians. On the last day of the season, Lajoie overtook Cobb's batting average with sevenbunt hits against theSt. Louis Browns.^[28] American League PresidentBan Johnson said a recalculation showed that Cobb had won the race anyway, and Chalmers ended up awarding cars to both players.^[3]

In thefollowing season, Chalmers created the Chalmers Award. A committee of baseball writers was to convene after the season to determine the "most important and useful player to the club and the league." Since the award was not aseffective at advertising as Chalmers had hoped, it was discontinued after 1914.^[3]

Year	American League winner	Team	Position	National League winner	Team	Position	Ref
1911	Ty Cobb^†^§	Detroit Tigers	OF	Frank Schulte	Chicago Cubs	OF	^[29]
1912	Tris Speaker^†	Boston Red Sox	OF	Larry Doyle	New York Giants	2B	^[30]
1913	Walter Johnson^†	Washington Senators	RHP	Jake Daubert	Brooklyn Superbas	1B	^[31]
1914	Eddie Collins^†	Philadelphia Athletics	2B	Johnny Evers^†	Boston Braves	2B	^[32]

League Awards (1922–1929)

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A man in full baseball attire wears a pinstriped jersey and a hat with overlapping white "N" and "Y". Looking to the left of the camera, he is holding a baseball upward. — Babe Ruth was ineligible for the award in his famous 1927 season by the rules of the American League award because he had previously won in 1923.

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."^[33] Winners, voted on by a committee of eight baseball writers chaired byJames Crusinberry,^[34] received a bronze medal and a cash prize.^[35] Voters were required to select one player from each team, andplayer-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.^[3]

Year	American League winner	Team	Position	National League winner	Team	Position	Ref
1922	George Sisler^†	St. Louis Browns	1B	—	—	—	^[36]
1923	Babe Ruth^†^§	New York Yankees	OF	—	—	—	^[37]
1924	Walter Johnson^†(2)	Washington Senators	RHP	Dazzy Vance^†	Brooklyn Robins	RHP	^[38]
1925	Roger Peckinpaugh	Washington Senators	SS	Rogers Hornsby^†	St. Louis Cardinals	2B	^[39]
1926	George Burns	Cleveland Indians	1B	Bob O'Farrell	St. Louis Cardinals	C	^[40]
1927	Lou Gehrig^†	New York Yankees	1B	Paul Waner^†	Pittsburgh Pirates	OF	^[41]
1928	Mickey Cochrane^†	Philadelphia Athletics	C	Jim Bottomley^†	St. Louis Cardinals	1B	^[42]
1929	—	—	—	Rogers Hornsby^†(2)	Chicago Cubs	2B	^[43]

BBWAA Most Valuable Player (1931–present)

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The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) was first awarded the modern MVP after the1931 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.^[3]

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". — Hall of Famer Jimmie Foxx was the first player to win three MVP awards.

Hall of Famer and two-time MVP Hank Greenberg was the first player to win the award at two different fielding positions (1B and OF).

Jim Konstanty, to date the only National League relief pitcher to be named MVP, won it in 1950.

The face of a dark-skinned man who is smiling widely. The letters "S" and "F" overlap on his hat. — Hall of Famer Willie Mays won the award in 1954 and 1965 with the same team in different cities.

Hall of Famer Frank Robinson is the first player to win the award in both leagues (NL in 1961 and AL in 1966).

Barry Bonds' seven MVPs are the most for any individual player.

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. — Alex Rodriguez won the award with two different teams at two different positions.

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. — Albert Pujols won the award three times, at first base with the St. Louis Cardinals.

Miguel Cabrera was the winner of back-to-back AL Awards from 2012 to 2013.

Shohei Ohtani is currently the only player to win the award three times by unanimous vote.

Year	American League winner	Team	Position	National League winner	Team	Position	Ref
1931	Lefty Grove^†	Philadelphia Athletics*	LHP	Frankie Frisch^†	St. Louis Cardinals*	2B	^[44]
1932	Jimmie Foxx^†	Philadelphia Athletics	1B	Chuck Klein^†	Philadelphia Phillies	OF	^[45]
1933	Jimmie Foxx^† (2)	Philadelphia Athletics	1B	Carl Hubbell^†	New York Giants*	LHP	^[46]
1934	Mickey Cochrane^† (2)	Detroit Tigers*	C	Dizzy Dean^†	St. Louis Cardinals*	RHP	^[47]
1935	Hank Greenberg^†§	Detroit Tigers*	1B	Gabby Hartnett^†	Chicago Cubs*	C	^[48]
1936	Lou Gehrig^† (2)	New York Yankees*	1B	Carl Hubbell^†§ (2)	New York Giants*	LHP	^[49]
1937	Charlie Gehringer^†	Detroit Tigers	2B	Joe Medwick^†	St. Louis Cardinals	OF	^[50]
1938	Jimmie Foxx^† (3)	Boston Red Sox	1B	Ernie Lombardi^†	Cincinnati Reds	C	^[51]
1939	Joe DiMaggio^†	New York Yankees*	OF	Bucky Walters	Cincinnati Reds*	RHP	^[52]
1940	Hank Greenberg^† (2)	Detroit Tigers*	OF	Frank McCormick	Cincinnati Reds*	1B	^[53]
1941	Joe DiMaggio^† (2)	New York Yankees*	OF	Dolph Camilli	Brooklyn Dodgers*	1B	^[54]
1942	Joe Gordon^†	New York Yankees*	2B	Mort Cooper	St. Louis Cardinals*	RHP	^[55]
1943	Spud Chandler	New York Yankees*	RHP	Stan Musial^†	St. Louis Cardinals*	OF	^[56]
1944	Hal Newhouser^†	Detroit Tigers	LHP	Marty Marion	St. Louis Cardinals*	SS	^[57]
1945	Hal Newhouser^† (2)	Detroit Tigers*	LHP	Phil Cavarretta	Chicago Cubs*	1B	^[58]
1946	Ted Williams^†	Boston Red Sox*	OF	Stan Musial^† (2)	St. Louis Cardinals*	1B	^[59]
1947	Joe DiMaggio^† (3)	New York Yankees*	OF	Bob Elliott	Boston Braves	3B	^[60]
1948	Lou Boudreau^†	Cleveland Indians*	SS	Stan Musial^† (3)	St. Louis Cardinals	OF	^[61]
1949	Ted Williams^† (2)	Boston Red Sox	OF	Jackie Robinson^†	Brooklyn Dodgers*	2B	^[62]
1950	Phil Rizzuto^†	New York Yankees*	SS	Jim Konstanty	Philadelphia Phillies*	RHP	^[63]
1951	Yogi Berra^†	New York Yankees*	C	Roy Campanella^†	Brooklyn Dodgers	C	^[64]
1952	Bobby Shantz	Philadelphia Athletics	LHP	Hank Sauer	Chicago Cubs	OF	^[65]
1953	Al Rosen^§	Cleveland Indians	3B	Roy Campanella^† (2)	Brooklyn Dodgers*	C	^[66]
1954	Yogi Berra^† (2)	New York Yankees	C	Willie Mays^†	New York Giants*	OF	^[67]
1955	Yogi Berra^† (3)	New York Yankees*	C	Roy Campanella^† (3)	Brooklyn Dodgers*	C	^[68]
1956	Mickey Mantle^†§	New York Yankees*	OF	Don Newcombe	Brooklyn Dodgers*	RHP	^[69]
1957	Mickey Mantle^† (2)	New York Yankees*	OF	Hank Aaron^†	Milwaukee Braves*	OF	^[70]
1958	Jackie Jensen	Boston Red Sox	OF	Ernie Banks^†	Chicago Cubs	SS	^[71]
1959	Nellie Fox^†	Chicago White Sox*	2B	Ernie Banks^† (2)	Chicago Cubs	SS	^[72]
1960	Roger Maris	New York Yankees*	OF	Dick Groat	Pittsburgh Pirates*	SS	^[73]
1961	Roger Maris (2)	New York Yankees*	OF	Frank Robinson^†	Cincinnati Reds*	OF	^[74]
1962	Mickey Mantle^† (3)	New York Yankees*	OF	Maury Wills	Los Angeles Dodgers	SS	^[75]
1963	Elston Howard	New York Yankees*	C	Sandy Koufax^†	Los Angeles Dodgers*	LHP	^[76]
1964	Brooks Robinson^†	Baltimore Orioles	3B	Ken Boyer	St. Louis Cardinals*	3B	^[77]
1965	Zoilo Versalles	Minnesota Twins*	SS	Willie Mays^† (2)	San Francisco Giants	OF	^[78]
1966	Frank Robinson^†§ (2)	Baltimore Orioles*	OF	Roberto Clemente^†	Pittsburgh Pirates	OF	^[79]
1967	Carl Yastrzemski^†	Boston Red Sox*	OF	Orlando Cepeda^†§	St. Louis Cardinals*	1B	^[80]
1968	Denny McLain^§	Detroit Tigers*	RHP	Bob Gibson^†	St. Louis Cardinals*	RHP	^[81]
1969	Harmon Killebrew^†	Minnesota Twins	3B	Willie McCovey^†	San Francisco Giants	1B	^[82]
1970	Boog Powell	Baltimore Orioles*	1B	Johnny Bench^†	Cincinnati Reds*	C	^[83]
1971	Vida Blue	Oakland Athletics	LHP	Joe Torre^†^[c]	St. Louis Cardinals	3B	^[84]
1972	Dick Allen^†	Chicago White Sox	1B	Johnny Bench^† (2)	Cincinnati Reds*	C	^[85]
1973	Reggie Jackson^†§	Oakland Athletics*	OF	Pete Rose	Cincinnati Reds	OF	^[86]
1974	Jeff Burroughs	Texas Rangers	OF	Steve Garvey	Los Angeles Dodgers*	1B	^[87]
1975	Fred Lynn	Boston Red Sox*	OF	Joe Morgan^†	Cincinnati Reds*	2B	^[88]
1976	Thurman Munson	New York Yankees*	C	Joe Morgan^† (2)	Cincinnati Reds*	2B	^[89]
1977	Rod Carew^†	Minnesota Twins	1B	George Foster	Cincinnati Reds	OF	^[90]
1978	Jim Rice^†	Boston Red Sox	OF	Dave Parker^†	Pittsburgh Pirates	OF	^[91]
1979	Don Baylor	California Angels	LF/DH^[92]	Keith Hernandez^[d]	St. Louis Cardinals	1B	^[18]
1979	Don Baylor	California Angels	LF/DH^[92]	Willie Stargell^†^[d]	Pittsburgh Pirates*	1B	^[18]
1980	George Brett^†	Kansas City Royals*	3B	Mike Schmidt^†§	Philadelphia Phillies*	3B	^[93]
1981	Rollie Fingers^†	Milwaukee Brewers	RHP	Mike Schmidt^† (2)	Philadelphia Phillies	3B	^[94]
1982	Robin Yount^†	Milwaukee Brewers*	SS	Dale Murphy	Atlanta Braves	OF	^[95]
1983	Cal Ripken Jr.^†	Baltimore Orioles*	SS	Dale Murphy (2)	Atlanta Braves	OF	^[96]
1984	Willie Hernández	Detroit Tigers*	LHP	Ryne Sandberg^†	Chicago Cubs	2B	^[97]
1985	Don Mattingly	New York Yankees	1B	Willie McGee	St. Louis Cardinals*	OF	^[98]
1986	Roger Clemens	Boston Red Sox*	RHP	Mike Schmidt^† (3)	Philadelphia Phillies	3B	^[99]
1987	George Bell	Toronto Blue Jays	OF	Andre Dawson^†	Chicago Cubs	OF	^[100]
1988	Jose Canseco^§	Oakland Athletics*	OF	Kirk Gibson	Los Angeles Dodgers*	OF	^[101]
1989	Robin Yount^† (2)	Milwaukee Brewers	OF	Kevin Mitchell	San Francisco Giants*	OF	^[102]
1990	Rickey Henderson^†	Oakland Athletics*	OF	Barry Bonds	Pittsburgh Pirates	OF	^[103]
1991	Cal Ripken Jr.^† (2)	Baltimore Orioles	SS	Terry Pendleton	Atlanta Braves*	3B	^[104]
1992	Dennis Eckersley^†	Oakland Athletics	RHP	Barry Bonds (2)	Pittsburgh Pirates	OF	^[105]
1993	Frank Thomas^†§	Chicago White Sox	1B	Barry Bonds (3)	San Francisco Giants	OF	^[106]
1994	Frank Thomas^† (2)	Chicago White Sox	1B	Jeff Bagwell^†§	Houston Astros	1B	^[107]
1995	Mo Vaughn	Boston Red Sox	1B	Barry Larkin^†	Cincinnati Reds	SS	^[108]
1996	Juan González	Texas Rangers	OF	Ken Caminiti^§	San Diego Padres	3B	^[109]
1997	Ken Griffey Jr.^†§	Seattle Mariners	OF	Larry Walker^†	Colorado Rockies	OF	^[110]
1998	Juan González (2)	Texas Rangers	OF	Sammy Sosa	Chicago Cubs	OF	^[111]
1999	Iván Rodríguez^†	Texas Rangers	C	Chipper Jones^†	Atlanta Braves*	3B	^[112]
2000	Jason Giambi	Oakland Athletics	1B	Jeff Kent	San Francisco Giants	2B	^[113]
2001	Ichiro Suzuki^†	Seattle Mariners	OF	Barry Bonds (4)	San Francisco Giants	OF	^[114]^[115]
2002	Miguel Tejada	Oakland Athletics	SS	Barry Bonds^§ (5)	San Francisco Giants*	OF	^[116]
2003	Alex Rodriguez	Texas Rangers	SS	Barry Bonds (6)	San Francisco Giants	OF	^[117]
2004	Vladimir Guerrero^†	Anaheim Angels	OF	Barry Bonds (7)	San Francisco Giants	OF	^[118]
2005	Alex Rodriguez (2)	New York Yankees	3B	Albert Pujols	St. Louis Cardinals	1B	^[119]
2006	Justin Morneau	Minnesota Twins	1B	Ryan Howard	Philadelphia Phillies	1B	^[120]
2007	Alex Rodriguez (3)	New York Yankees	3B	Jimmy Rollins	Philadelphia Phillies	SS	^[121]
2008	Dustin Pedroia	Boston Red Sox	2B	Albert Pujols (2)	St. Louis Cardinals	1B	^[122]
2009	Joe Mauer^†	Minnesota Twins	C	Albert Pujols^§ (3)	St. Louis Cardinals	1B	^[115]^[123]
2010	Josh Hamilton	Texas Rangers*	OF	Joey Votto	Cincinnati Reds	1B	^[124]^[125]
2011	Justin Verlander^{^}	Detroit Tigers	RHP	Ryan Braun	Milwaukee Brewers	OF	^[126]^[127]
2012	Miguel Cabrera	Detroit Tigers*	3B	Buster Posey	San Francisco Giants*	C	^[128]^[129]
2013	Miguel Cabrera (2)	Detroit Tigers	3B	Andrew McCutchen^{^}	Pittsburgh Pirates	OF	^[130]^[131]
2014	Mike Trout^{^§}	Los Angeles Angels	OF	Clayton Kershaw^{^}	Los Angeles Dodgers	LHP	^[132]^[133]
2015	Josh Donaldson	Toronto Blue Jays	3B	Bryce Harper^{^§}	Washington Nationals	OF	^[134]^[135]
2016	Mike Trout^{^} (2)	Los Angeles Angels	OF	Kris Bryant^{^}	Chicago Cubs*	3B/OF	^[136]
2017	Jose Altuve^{^}	Houston Astros*	2B	Giancarlo Stanton^{^}	Miami Marlins	OF	^[137]
2018	Mookie Betts^{^}	Boston Red Sox*	OF	Christian Yelich^{^}	Milwaukee Brewers	OF	^[138]
2019	Mike Trout^{^} (3)	Los Angeles Angels	OF	Cody Bellinger^{^}	Los Angeles Dodgers	OF	^[139]
2020	José Abreu^{^}	Chicago White Sox	1B	Freddie Freeman^{^}	Atlanta Braves	1B	^[140]
2021	Shohei Ohtani^{^§}	Los Angeles Angels	RHP/DH	Bryce Harper^{^} (2)	Philadelphia Phillies	OF	^[141]
2022	Aaron Judge^{^}	New York Yankees	OF	Paul Goldschmidt^{^}	St. Louis Cardinals	1B	^[142]
2023	Shohei Ohtani^{^§}(2)	Los Angeles Angels	RHP/DH	Ronald Acuña Jr.^{^§}	Atlanta Braves	OF	^[143]
2024	Aaron Judge^{^§}(2)	New York Yankees*	OF	Shohei Ohtani^{^§}(3)	Los Angeles Dodgers*	DH	^[144]

Wins by team

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Teams	Awards	Years
New York Yankees	24	1923, 1927, 1936, 1939, 1941–1943, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1954–1957, 1960–1963, 1976, 1985, 2005, 2007, 2022, 2024
St. Louis Cardinals	21	1925, 1926, 1928, 1931, 1934, 1937, 1942–1944, 1946, 1948, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1971, 1979, 1985, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2022
Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers	15	1913, 1924, 1941, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1962, 1963, 1974, 1988, 2014, 2019, 2024
New York/San Francisco Giants	14	1912, 1933, 1936, 1954, 1965, 1969, 1989, 1993, 2000–2004, 2012
Philadelphia/Oakland Athletics	13	1914, 1928, 1931–1933, 1952, 1971, 1973, 1988, 1990, 1992, 2000, 2002
Cincinnati Reds	12	1938–1940, 1961, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1975–1977, 1995, 2010
Detroit Tigers		1911, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1940, 1944, 1945, 1968, 1984, 2011–2013
Boston Red Sox		1912, 1938, 1946, 1949, 1958, 1967, 1975, 1978, 1986, 1995, 2008, 2018
Chicago Cubs	11	1911, 1929, 1935, 1945, 1952, 1958, 1959, 1984, 1987, 1998, 2016
Boston/Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves	9	1914, 1947, 1957, 1982, 1983, 1991, 1999, 2020, 2023
Washington Senators/Minnesota Twins	8	1913, 1924, 1925, 1965, 1969, 1977, 2006, 2009
Pittsburgh Pirates		1927, 1960, 1966, 1978, 1979, 1990, 1992, 2013
Philadelphia Phillies		1932, 1950, 1980, 1981, 1986, 2006, 2007, 2021
California/Anaheim/Los Angeles Angels	7	1979, 2004, 2014, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023
Baltimore Orioles/St. Louis Browns	6	1922, 1964, 1966, 1970, 1983, 1991
Texas Rangers	6	1974, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2010
Milwaukee Brewers	5	1981, 1982, 1989, 2011, 2018
Chicago White Sox	5	1959, 1972, 1993, 1994, 2020
Cleveland Indians / Guardians	3	1926, 1948, 1953
Seattle Mariners	2	1997, 2001
Toronto Blue Jays		1987, 2015
Houston Astros		1994, 2017
Kansas City Royals	1	1980
San Diego Padres		1996
Colorado Rockies		1997
Washington Nationals		2015
Miami Marlins		2017
Arizona Diamondbacks	0	none
New York Mets		none
Tampa Bay Rays		none

Notes

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^a A player is considered inactive if he has announced his retirement or has not played for a full season.
^b A unanimous victory indicates that the player received all possible first-place votes.
^c Torre is a member of the Hall of Fame, but not as a player. He was inducted in2014 as amanager.^[145]
^d Hernandez and Stargell both received 216 points in the 1979 voting.^[18]

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American League Most Valuable Player Award

1931:Grove
1932:Foxx
1933:Foxx
1934:Cochrane
1935:Greenberg
1936:Gehrig
1937:Gehringer
1938:Foxx
1939:DiMaggio
1940:Greenberg
1941:DiMaggio
1942:Gordon
1943:Chandler
1944:Newhouser
1945:Newhouser
1946:Williams
1947:DiMaggio
1948:Boudreau
1949:Williams
1950:Rizzuto
1951:Berra
1952:Shantz
1953:Rosen
1954:Berra
1955:Berra
1956:Mantle
1957:Mantle
1958:Jensen
1959:Fox
1960:Maris
1961:Maris
1962:Mantle
1963:Howard
1964:B. Robinson
1965:Versalles
1966:F. Robinson
1967:Yastrzemski
1968:McLain
1969:Killebrew
1970:Powell
1971:Blue
1972:Allen
1973:Jackson
1974:Burroughs
1975:Lynn
1976:Munson
1977:Carew
1978:Rice
1979:Baylor
1980:Brett
1981:Fingers
1982:Yount
1983:Ripken Jr.
1984:Hernández
1985:Mattingly
1986:Clemens
1987:Bell
1988:Canseco
1989:Yount
1990:Henderson
1991:Ripken Jr.
1992:Eckersley
1993:Thomas
1994:Thomas
1995:Vaughn
1996:González
1997:Griffey Jr.
1998:González
1999:I. Rodríguez
2000:Giambi
2001:Suzuki
2002:Tejada
2003:A. Rodriguez
2004:Guerrero
2005:A. Rodriguez
2006:Morneau
2007:A. Rodriguez
2008:Pedroia
2009:Mauer
2010:Hamilton
2011:Verlander
2012:Cabrera
2013:Cabrera
2014:Trout
2015:Donaldson
2016:Trout
2017:Altuve
2018:Betts
2019:Trout
2020:Abreu
2021:Ohtani
2022:Judge
2023:Ohtani
2024:Judge

v t e National League Most Valuable Player Award
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National League Most Valuable Player Award