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To nobody's surprise (one hopes), Minnesota backstop Joe Mauer is your 2009 AL MVP. Yankee teammates Mark Teixeira and Derek Jeter split the Bronx vote to finish second and third, respectively. Tiger Miguel Cabrera, who finished fourth, received one first-place vote, with all the others going to Joltin' Joe of the Twin Cities.

Posted by Mick Doherty on Monday, November 23 2009 @ 03:28 PM EST.

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Mick Doherty - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 03:41 PM EST (#208618) #

As this site's resident Yankee fan, I'd have been happy to see either Tex or Jeter win -- but I think in the big picture, the voters got this one right. Well, except for the one guy who put Miggy Cabrera first. Revoke his voting privlege!

Magpie - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 03:55 PM EST (#208619) #

I thought it would be a pretty decisive win for Mauer, but still - I thought it would be closer than this:

2009 AMERICAN LEAGUE MVP VOTING
Player                   1st   2nd  3rd  4th  5th 6th  7th  8th 9th 10th  Points
Joe Mauer, MIN            27     1                                          387
Mark Teixeira, NYY              15    6   4    1   1         1              225
Derek Jeter, NYY                 9    5   3    5   3         1   1    1     193
Miguel Cabrera, DET        1     1    5   8    4   3    2        1    3     171
Kendry Morales, LAA                   3   9   10   3    2                   170
Kevin Youkilis, BOS              2    7   3    4   2    2    4        1     150
Jason Bay, BOS                        1   1        4    5    4   5    1      78
Ben Zobrist, TB                                    1    4    3   1    2      34
Ichiro Suzuki, SEA                                 2         4   4    3      33
Alex Rodriguez, NYY                   1        3                 2    1      31
Chone Figgins, LAA                                 3    1    2   3           31
Aaron Hill, TOR                                1        2    2        3      23
Bobby Abreu, LAA                                   2    1    1    1   4      23
Mariano Rivera, NYY                                2    1    1               17
Adam Lind, TOR                                          1    1    2   3      14
Michael Young, TEX                                      1    1    2   2      13
Zack Greinke, KC                                   1    1         1   1      12
Robinson Cano, NYY                                      3                    12
Evan Longoria, TB                                       1    1    1           9
Justin Verlander, DET                              1              1           7
CC Sabathia, NYY                                        1                     4
Michael Cuddyer, MIN                                         1        1       4
Victor Martinez, CLE/BOS                                          2           4
Jason Kubel, MIN                                             1                3
Placido Polanco, DET                                              1           2
Felix Hernandez, SEA                                                  1       1
Ian Kinsler, TEX                                                      1       1

That was a Seattle voter who went with Cabrera, by the way.

Chuck - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 04:03 PM EST (#208621) #

I haven't seen but am guessing that the same writer who voted for Verlander for the CY also voted for Cabrera.

Chuck - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 04:05 PM EST (#208622) #

That was a Seattle voter who went with Cabrera, by the way.

Oops, I missed this.

Mike Green - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 04:09 PM EST (#208623) #

FWIW, Fangraph's value estimator has 'em in this order: Greinke, Zobrist, Mauer, and Verlander. I would have voted Mauer (and I don't think that it is close).

Mick Doherty - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 04:17 PM EST (#208624) #

Five pitchers got votes, and none to Halladay? Am I reading that right? Only Lind and Hill got Jay votes ... I'm not a proponent of pitcher-as-MVP (with rare exceptions) but if you're voting for pitchers on your MVP ballot, not sure all these guys rank above the Doctor ...

Magpie - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 04:27 PM EST (#208625) #

It's always refreshing when the voters somehow manage to restrain themselves from simply voting for the RBI leader. Granted, Teixeira's league leading figure (122) was the lowest number to lead the AL in a non-strike year since Ruben Sierra led the league with 119 in 1989.

Sierra also finished second in the MVP voting.

Chuck - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 04:49 PM EST (#208626) #

I am pleasantly surprised at how Mauer won in such a landslide. I am even more surprised that Teixeira finished ahead of Jeter. There's your RBI-love Magpie, albeit muted.

ayjackson - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 06:04 PM EST (#208627) #

Well, except for the one guy who put Miggy Cabrera first.

No doubt the same guy who voted Verlander for Cy Young.

ayjackson - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 06:05 PM EST (#208628) #

I guess I should've hit refresh.

Chuck - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 06:50 PM EST (#208629) #

No doubt the same guy who voted Verlander for Cy Young.

Go to any of the forums. Our conclusions were -- erroneously -- drawn by many.

greenfrog - Monday, November 23 2009 @ 08:11 PM EST (#208630) #

You could also make a case for some Jason Bartlett love (maybe not as a top five MVP candidate, but somewhere on the board). How often do you find a good-field SS who hits 320/389/490 with 30 SB? Of course, he only played in 137 games, so I'm guessing he was injured for a few weeks at some point. But those are some pretty fancy numbers.

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