Kris Bryant, Mike Trout win baseball’s MVP awards

For me, this was a real break with my traditional thought – that in a close race I tended to go with the guy from the team that won. Nationals second baseman Daniel Murphy was second with 245 points.

“I’m not a political person that much, but I have common sense”, Evans told the AP. “Belief is a very powerful”.

In 2014, Bryant was named Baseball America’s Minor League Player of the Year after hitting.325/.438/.661 with 43 home runs and 110 RBI in 138 games between Double A and Triple A. It was Bryant’s first career five-hit game, a feat he’d repeat on August 18 against the Brewers, hitting two home runs and a double.

The Baseball Writers Association of America on Wednesday named Nationals Starter Max Scherzer the victor of the 2016 National League Cy Young Award.

Betts was the runner-up, receiving nine first-place votes. Chicago Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant won the award handily.

Take a moment to process that.

I can understand if you feel Betts deserved the award over Trout.

“He shows up”, the manager said.

Only four players in major league history have won the MVP a season after winning Rookie of the Year: Bryant, Boston’s Dustin Pedroia (2007 and 2008), Philadelphia’s Ryan Howard (2005 and 2006) and Baltimore’s Cal Ripken Jr.

I went through each player’s game logs at Baseball-Reference.com and added up their WPA in the one-run games.

Altuve led the AL with a.338 (216-for-640) batting average, but also turned on the power. “Rizz definitely deserves it”. A lot of people ask me about the young guys coming up in baseball and for him to have a year like that, it was just unbelievable. “We feed off of each other”. Kris Bryant took home the honour in the National League. Well, a younger kid. I want to try to improve in every category. Arte Moreno, the franchise owner, said he is impressed and amazed by Trout “on an everyday basis”. “At the beginning of the year, I didn’t have any goals to be in the MVP conversation or any of that, but it’s just kind of the result of hard work”.

Never had Murphy tallied better than 14 home runs, 78 RBI, and an.809 on-base-plus-slugging percentage in his previous seven major league seasons, all with the Mets.

Altuve’s 2016 campaign year was the latest chapter in his incredible rise from overlooked to one of baseball’s best.

Two other Nationals players made the ballot, too. “And he makes me a better dad, being around him”.

Kris Bryant on Thursday evening was revealed to be the National League’s Most Valuable Player in an undemanding vote by which the league’s best player happened to wear the uniform of the league’s best team, satisfying almost everyone, spilling no blood and prolonging the postseason parade in Chicago.

“My thoughts leading up to it were probably what a lot of people thought, if you’re voting for the best player, he’s hands down the victor, but MVP on a team that’s struggled, I thought people tended to value that so I thought it’d be a struggle”, Hallenbeck said.