strategic WAR (Wins Above Replacement) wRC+ (Weighted Runs Created Plus) and defensive performance get commonly used to evaluate a player’s impact in baseball. However, for awards like MVP and ...

The first month-plus of the 2025 MLB season has already produced MVP-like performances from dozens of players, and that's ...

According to Baseball-Reference ... winning Cabrera took the MVP--and the vote wasn’t all that close. Trout settled for second place despite producing 10.5 WAR as a rookie.