2006 National League Most Valuable Player Award
The winner of the 2006 National League Most Valuable Player Award was Ryan Howard of the Philadelphia Phillies.
Award Voting[edit]
- † indicates playoff team
Player | Team | Points | AVG | OBP | SLG | HR | RBI | W - L | SV | SO | ERA | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |||
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Ryan Howard | Philadelphia Phillies | 388 | .313 | .425 | .659 | 58 | 149 | Did not pitch | 20 | 12 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
Albert Pujols | St. Louis Cardinals † | 347 | .331 | .431 | .671 | 49 | 137 | Did not pitch | 12 | 19 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
Lance Berkman | Houston Astros | 230 | .315 | .420 | .621 | 45 | 136 | Did not pitch | - | - | 21 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | ||||||
Carlos Beltran | New York Mets † | 211 | .275 | .388 | .594 | 41 | 116 | Did not pitch | - | 1 | 5 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | - | - | ||||||
Miguel Cabrera | Florida Marlins | 170 | .339 | .430 | .568 | 26 | 114 | Did not pitch | - | - | 2 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | - | ||||||
Alfonso Soriano | Washington Nationals | 106 | .277 | .351 | .560 | 46 | 95 | Did not pitch | - | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Jose Reyes | New York Mets † | 98 | .300 | .354 | .487 | 19 | 81 | Did not pitch | - | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Chase Utley | Philadelphia Phillies | 98 | .309 | .379 | .527 | 32 | 102 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | 1 | - | 6 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
David Wright | New York Metss † | 70 | .311 | .381 | .531 | 26 | 116 | Did not pitch | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
Trevor Hoffman | San Diego Padres † | 46 | Did not bat | 0 - 2 | 46 | 50 | 2.14 | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | |||||||
Andruw Jones | Atlanta Braves | 29 | .262 | .363 | .531 | 41 | 129 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | ||||||
Carlos Delgado | New York Metss † | 23 | .265 | .361 | .548 | 38 | 114 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 4 | ||||||
Nomar Garciaparra | Los Angeles Dodgers † | 18 | .303 | .367 | .505 | 20 | 93 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 3 | 4 | ||||||
Rafael Furcal | Los Angeles Dodgers † | 11 | .300 | .369 | .445 | 15 | 63 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | ||||||
Garrett Atkins | Colorado Rockies | 10 | .309 | .409 | .556 | 29 | 120 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 2 | ||||||
Matt Holliday | Colorado Rockies | 10 | .326 | .387 | .586 | 34 | 114 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
Aramis Ramirez | Chicago Cubs | 5 | .291 | .352 | .561 | 38 | 119 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | ||||||
Freddy Sanchez | Pittsburgh Pirates | 5 | .344 | .378 | .473 | 6 | 85 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | ||||||
Chris Carpenter | St. Louis Cardinals † | 4 | .127 | .127 | .127 | 0 | 2 | 15 - 8 | 0 | 184 | 3.09 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | |||
Chipper Jones | Atlanta Braves | 3 | .324 | .409 | .596 | 26 | 86 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | ||||||
Mike Cameron | San Diego Padres † | 2 | .268 | .355 | .482 | 22 | 83 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | ||||||
Jimmy Rollins | Philadelphia Phillies | 2 | .277 | .334 | .478 | 25 | 83 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | ||||||
Bronson Arroyo | Cincinnati Reds | 1 | .111 | .143 | .222 | 2 | 6 | 14 - 11 | 0 | 184 | 3.29 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||
Jason Bay | Pittsburgh Pirates | 1 | .286 | .396 | .532 | 35 | 109 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Further Reading[edit]
- Ken Mandel: "Howard's huge year nets him NL MVP: Howard's big year nets him NL MVP", mlb.com, [1]
Related Sites[edit]
Preceded by 2005 |
Most Valuable Player Award American 2006 |
Succeeded by 2007 |
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