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New York Yankees\u2019 outfielder Aaron Judge won his second American League MVP Award, sweeping all 30 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judge, who also won this award in 2022, is the 17th multiple winner in the American League. He joins a list that features three-time winners Jimmie Foxx (1932-33, 1938), Joe DiMaggio (1939, 1941, 1947), Yogi Berra (1951, 1954-55), Mickey Mantle (1956-57, 1962), Alex Rodriguez (2003, 2005, 2007) and Mike Trout (2014, 2016, 2019) and fellow two-time winners Hank Greenberg (1935, 1940), Hal Newhouser (1944-45), Ted Williams (1946, 1949), Roger Maris (1960-61), Robin Yount (1982, 1989), Cal Ripken Jr. (1983, 1991), Frank Thomas (1993-94), Juan Gonzalez (1996, 1998), Miguel Cabrera (2012-13) and Shohei Ohtani (2021, 2023). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This marks the 22nd time that a Yankees player has been honored, the most MVP Awards overall for one club in BBWAA voting dating to 1931. The St. Louis Cardinals are second with 18, the most in the National League. Judge joins three-time winners DiMaggio (1939, 1941, 1947), Berra (1951, 1954-55) and Mantle (1956-57, 1962); fellow two-time winners Maris (1960-61) and Rodriguez (2005, 2007) as well as Lou Gehrig (1936), Joe Gordon (1942), Spud Chandler (1943), Phil Rizzuto (1950), Elston Howard (1963), Thurman Munson (1976) and Don Mattingly (1985).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. finished second, taking all 30 second-place votes. It is the first time in AL MVP voting that the winner received all the first-place votes and the runner-up got all the second-place votes. This has happened only once before in BBWAA MVP balloting. That was last year in the National League with winner Ronald Acuna Jr. of the Atlanta Braves receiving all 30 first-place votes and runner-up Mookie Betts of the Los Angeles Dodgers getting all 30 second-place votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judge\u2019s victory is the 14th for a center fielder in the AL. He also played there in most of his games in 2022. Judge is on the list with three-time winners DiMaggio, Mantle and Trout along with Yount, Fred Lynn (1975) and Ken Griffey Jr. (1997). Yount was a shortstop when he won his first MVP Award in 1982. His team, the Milwaukee Brewers, moved to the NL in 1998. Center fielders have won the award in the NL six times \u2013 twice apiece by Willie Mays (1954, 1965) and Dale Murphy (1982-83) and once each by Willie McGee (1985) and Andrew McCutchen (2013). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Witt\u2019s runner-up finish was the highest by a Royals player since 1985 when George Brett ran second to Mattingly. Kansas City had runners-up in three consecutive elections \u2013 John Mayberry in 1975, Brett in 1976 and Al Cowens in 1977. Brett is the only Royals player to have won the award, in 1980.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Judge, Witt, the Yankees\u2019 Juan Soto, the Baltimore Orioles\u2019 Gunnar Henderson and the Cleveland Guardians\u2019 Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez were named on every ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ballots, submitted before the postseason, were cast by\u00a0two writers in each league city. They are tabulated on a system that rewards 14 points for first place, nine for second, eight for third on down to one for 10th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Courtesy New York Yankees New York Yankees\u2019 outfielder Aaron Judge won his second American League…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-mvp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":861,"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/47.88.55.211:8008\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/td> 1st<\/th> 2nd<\/th> 3rd<\/th> 4th<\/th> 5th<\/th> 6th<\/th> 7th<\/th> 8th<\/th> 9th<\/th> 10th<\/th> Points<\/th><\/tr><\/thead> Aaron Judge, Yankees<\/td> 30<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 420<\/td><\/tr> Bobby Witt Jr., Royals<\/td> <\/td> 30<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 270<\/td><\/tr> Juan Soto, Yankees<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 21<\/td> 7<\/td> 2<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 229<\/td><\/tr> Gunnar Henderson, Orioles<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 6<\/td> 16<\/td> 8<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 208<\/td><\/tr> Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez, Guardians<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 3<\/td> 5<\/td> 16<\/td> 5<\/td> 1<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 184<\/td><\/tr> Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Blue Jays<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 2<\/td> 7<\/td> 5<\/td> 5<\/td> 7<\/td> 3<\/td> 99<\/td><\/tr> Tarik Skubal, Tigers<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> <\/td> 9<\/td> 7<\/td> 2<\/td> 2<\/td> 3<\/td> 93<\/td><\/tr> Jarren Duran, Red Sox<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> <\/td> 5<\/td> 6<\/td> 9<\/td> 3<\/td> 1<\/td> 90<\/td><\/tr> Yordan Alvarez, Astros<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 2<\/td> 4<\/td> 3<\/td> 6<\/td> 4<\/td> 5<\/td> 75<\/td><\/tr> Brent Rooker, Athletics<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> 3<\/td> 10<\/td> 7<\/td> 40<\/td><\/tr> Emmanuel Clase, Guardians<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 5<\/td> 3<\/td> 2<\/td> 3<\/td> 36<\/td><\/tr> Cal Raleigh, Mariners<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> 1<\/td> 2<\/td> 1<\/td> 12<\/td><\/tr> Rafael Devers, Red Sox<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> 5<\/td><\/tr> Anthony Santander, Orioles<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> 4<\/td><\/tr> Jose Altuve, Astros<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr> Tyler Holton, Tigers<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr> Seth Lugo, Royals<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr> Corey Seager, Rangers<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr> Framber Valdez, Astros<\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> <\/td> 1<\/td> 1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"