SB Nation Votes: American League MVP

by Ben Buchanan on Nov 23, 2010 1:54 PM EST in SBNation Awards

UPDATE: Josh Hamilton finishes first, as predicted. And Adrian Beltre finishes ninth because, uh, defense doesn't matter or something.

Wait, then why did Longoria get so many points? And Crawford?

Oh...right...the errors. Oh well, at least they're getting better at this sort of thing.

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The MLB is about to finish giving out its awards today by naming the American League MVP. And while the Red Sox have at least one player on the short list (Adrian Beltre), this one seems like a foregone conclusion. Who's the likely winner? Josh Hamilton. And SB Nation definitely agrees.

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Points
Hamilton	22	5	1			1					278
Cabrera	4	4	7	3	3	2	3	1		1	197
Longoria	3	3	6	9	2		1	1	2		191
Bautista		7	4	3	4	4	4	2			182
Cano		6	4	5	4	3	4	1	1	1	182
Beltre		4	4	7	2	5	3	1		1	170
Crawford			2		5	3	5	1	2	4	92
Mauer				1	3	1	2	8	4	5	75
Konerko					2	4	2	1	7	3	60
Choo			1		2	2		5	2	5	54
Felix					1	4	1	2	1		38
Lee							2	2	1	1	17
Rodriguez				1							7
Thome					1						6
Guerrero							1		1		6
Teixeira								2			6
Gardner									2	1	5
Verlander							1				4
Wells								1			3
Sabathia									1	1	3
Barton									1		2
Young									1		2
Andrus									1		2
Scott									1		2
Butler										2	2
Ichiro										2	2
Price										1	1

Beltre comes up a little short compared to his second place WAR finish, but oh well. Hamilton ran away with this one, and deserved it.

For those interested, SB Nation also nailed the NL MVP, giving Joey Votto a close victory over Albert Pujols. I think that makes us 4-for-4 on the big awards. Yay us!

	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	Points
Votto	27	4	2								322
Pujols	5	26	2								300
Tulowitzki			3	8	8	7	3	3			184
C Gonzalez	1	1	10	2	5	3	2	3	1	1	178
Zimmerman		1	3	6	7	4	5			2	159
A Gonzalez			6	8	4		1	3	1	2	145
Holliday			1	2	4	8	3	6	1	3	121
Halladay		1	6	3	4		1		2		110
Huff				2		5	7	2		2	75
Werth						2	4	5	1	3	46
Jimenez				2			1	1	1		23
Torres					1				6	2	20
J Johnson						1	1		3		15
Wainwright						1		1	2	2	14
Uggla						1	1		1	3	14
Howard						1		1	2	2	14
McCann								2	2	3	13
K Johnson							1	2		2	12
Weeks							1		2	4	12
Braun								1	2	1	8
Dunn							1	1			7
Bruce									3		6
Posey							1				4
Utley									1		2
Rolen									1		2
Lincecum									1		2
Pagan										1	1