Alvarez Unanimously Wins AL MVP, Crow-Armstrong Unanimously Wins NL MVP: Both Score a Perfect 420 Points
The Baseball Writers' Association of America (BBWAA) announced the results of its 2026 Most Valuable Player voting on November 12: Houston Astros designated hitter Yordan Alvarez took all 30 first-place votes and a perfect 420 points to win the American League MVP Award unanimously, and Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong also took all 30 first-place votes and 420 points to win the National League MVP Award unanimously.
Alvarez, 29, won his first MVP award after two previous top-10 finishes, most recently third place in 2022. He led the major leagues in all three slash categories this season, hitting .316 with a .432 on-base percentage and a .601 slugging percentage, and won the AL batting title at .316. He hit 42 home runs and drove in 106 runs, finishing second in the AL in both categories, and led the league with 341 total bases, 109 walks and 77 extra-base hits. Alvarez is the 14th unanimous winner in AL history and only the second designated hitter honored, after Shohei Ohtani. He is the third MVP in Astros history, joining Jose Altuve, the AL winner in 2017, and Jeff Bagwell, the NL winner in 1994.
In the AL voting, Tampa Bay Rays third baseman Junior Caminero finished second with 267 points and Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. was third with 188; Alvarez, Caminero and Witt were the only players named on every ballot. Alvarez joins Aaron Judge and Miguel Cabrera as the only AL players since 1970 to win a batting title and hit at least 40 home runs in the same season.
In the National League, the 24-year-old Crow-Armstrong hit .280 with 45 home runs and 41 stolen bases, becoming the seventh player in major league history with a 40-homer, 40-steal season, and won a Gold Glove award; he led the NL with 119 runs scored. Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers finished second with 264 points, ending his run of consecutive MVP wins at three, and Brice Turang of the Milwaukee Brewers was third. Crow-Armstrong is the Cubs' first NL MVP since Kris Bryant in 2016 and the franchise's first unanimous winner.
MVP ballots, cast by two BBWAA members in each league city, were submitted before the postseason and are tabulated with 14 points for first place, nine for second, eight for third and down to one point for 10th. This year both leagues' MVP winners and both Cy Young Award winners were unanimous selections, a first in major league history.
Source: Baseball Writers' Association of America
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