2008 American League Most Valuable Player Award

The winner of the 2008 American League Most Valuable Player Award was Dustin Pedroia of the Boston Red Sox.

Award Voting

† 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
Dustin Pedroia	Boston Red Sox †	317		.326	.376	.493	17	83		Did not pitch					16	6	4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Justin Morneau	Minnesota Twins	257		.300	.374	.499	23	129		Did not pitch					7	7	6	3	3	1	1	-	-	-
Kevin Youkilis	Boston Red Sox †	201		.312	.390	.569	29	115		Did not pitch					2	4	4	9	2	4	1	2	-	-
Joe Mauer	Minnesota Twins	188		.328	.413	.451	9	85		Did not pitch					2	8	1	3	4	3	3	2	1	-
Carlos Quentin	Chicago White Sox †	160		.288	.394	.571	36	100		Did not pitch					-	1	4	8	4	4	4	-	1	1
Francisco Rodriguez	Los Angeles Angels †	143		Did not bat						2 - 3	62	77	2.24		1	2	6	1	6	-	3	2	-	2
Josh Hamilton	Texas Rangers	112		.304	.371	.530	32	130		Did not pitch					-	-	2	2	3	7	3	2	4	3
Alex Rodriguez	New York Yankees	45		.302	.392	.572	35	103		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	1	1	4	1	4	7
Carlos Pena	Tampa Bay Rays †	44		.247	.377	.494	31	102		Did not pitch					-	-	1	-	2	-	2	3	2	3
Grady Sizemore	Cleveland Indians	42		.268	.374	.502	33	90		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	2	1	5	6	1
Evan Longoria	Tampa Bay Rays †	38		.272	.343	.531	27	85		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	2	2	5	2	1
Cliff Lee	Cleveland Indians	24		.000	.000	.000	0	0		22 - 3	0	170	2.54		-	-	-	1	1	1	1	-	1	-
Miguel Cabrera	Detroit Tigers	17		.292	.349	.537	37	127		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	4	1
Vladimir Guerrero	Los Angeles Angels †	16		.303	.365	.521	27	91		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	2	2	1	-
Jermaine Dye	Chicago White Sox †	14		.292	.344	.541	34	96		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	1	-	-	2	-	2
Aubrey Huff	Baltimore Orioles	12		.304	.360	.552	32	108		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	2	3
Milton Bradley	Texas Rangers	9		.321	.436	.563	22	77		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-
Jason Bartlett	Tampa Bay Rays †	6		.286	.329	.361	1	37		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
Mike Mussina	New York Yankees	3		.200	.200	.200	0	0		20 - 9	0	150	3.37		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
Raul Ibanez	Seattle Mariners	1		.293	.358	.479	23	110		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Ian Kinsler	Texas Rangers	1		.319	.375	.517	18	71		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Ichiro Suzuki	Seattle Mariners	1		.310	.361	.386	6	42		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Mark Teixeira	Los Angeles Angels †	1		.358	.449	.632	13	43		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1

Preceded by 2007

Most Valuable Player Award National 2008

Succeeded by 2009