Angels’ Mike Trout Named AL MVP, Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw Wins NL MVP
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Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Two of the best players in Major League Baseball earned their due on Thursday. Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout won the American League MVP, while Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw won the National League MVP.
The 22-year-old Trout finished second in the MVP voting the past two years, but has finally won the award in just his third full season, and in unanimous fashion. He’s the third youngest A.L. player ever to win the award.
Trout batted .287 with 36 home runs, 111 RBIs, and 115 runs scored in 2014.
Kershaw had won his third National League Cy Young Award on Wednesday. He becomes the first player to win the N.L. Cy Young and MVP awards in the same season since Bob Gibson for the St. Louis Cardinals back in 1968.
Despite missing all of April, the 26-year-old Kershaw went 21-3 with a 1.77 ERA, a 0.86 WHIP, and 239 strikeouts in 198.1 innings pitched.
The Dodgers went 21-4 in Kershaw’s 27 starts, and were only three games over .500 when anyone else pitched.
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