2009 American League Most Valuable Player Award

The winner of the 2009 American League Most Valuable Player Award was Joe Mauer of the Minnesota Twins.

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
Joe Mauer	Minnesota Twins †	387		.365	.444	.587	28	96		Did not pitch					27	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Mark Teixeira	New York Yankees †	225		.292	.383	.565	39	122		Did not pitch					-	15	6	4	1	1	-	1	-	-
Derek Jeter	New York Yankees †	193		.334	.406	.465	18	66		Did not pitch					-	9	5	3	5	3	-	1	1	1
Miguel Cabrera	Detroit Tigers	171		.324	.396	.547	34	103		Did not pitch					1	1	5	8	4	3	2	-	1	3
Kendry Morales	Los Angeles Angels †	170		.306	.355	.569	34	108		Did not pitch					-	-	3	9	10	3	2	-	-	-
Kevin Youkilis	Boston Red Sox †	150		.305	.413	.548	27	94		Did not pitch					-	2	7	3	4	2	2	4	-	1
Jason Bay	Boston Red Sox †	78		.267	.384	.537	36	119		Did not pitch					-	-	1	1	-	4	5	4	5	1
Ben Zobrist	Tampa Bay Rays	34		.297	.405	.543	27	91		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	1	4	3	1	2
Ichiro Suzuki	Seattle Mariners	33		.352	.386	.465	11	46		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	2	-	4	4	3
Alex Rodriguez	New York Yankees †	31		.286	.402	.532	30	100		Did not pitch					-	-	1	-	3	-	-	-	2	1
Chone Figgins	Los Angeles Angels †	31		.298	.395	.393	5	54		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	3	1	2	3	-
Aaron Hill	Toronto Blue Jays	32		.286	.330	.499	36	108		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	1	-	2	2	-	3
Bobby Abreu	Los Angeles Angels †	23		.293	.390	.435	15	103		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	1	4
Mariano Rivera	New York Yankees †	17		.000	.500	.000	0	1		3 - 3	44	72	1.76		-	-	-	-	-	2	1	1	-	-
Adam Lind	Toronto Blue Jays	14		.305	.370	.562	35	114		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	2	3
Michael Young	Texas Rangers	13		.322	.374	.518	22	68		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	2	2
Zack Greinke	Kansas City Royals	12		.167	.167	.333	0	0		16 - 8	0	242	2.16		-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	1	1
Robinson Cano	New York Yankees †	12		.320	.352	.520	25	85		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-
Evan Longoria	Tampa Bay Rays	9		.281	.364	.526	33	113		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	1	-
Justin Verlander	Detroit Tigers	7		.000	.000	.000	0	0		19 - 9	0	269	3.45		-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-
CC Sabathia	New York Yankees †	4		.250	.250	.250	0	1		19 - 8	0	197	3.37		-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-
Michael Cuddyer	Minnesota Twins †	4		.276	.342	.520	32	94		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1
Victor Martinez	Cleveland Indians / Boston Red Sox †	4		.303	.381	.480	23	108		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
Jason Kubel	Minnesota Twins †	3		.300	.369	.539	28	103		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-
Placido Polanco	Detroit Tigers	2		.285	.331	.396	10	72		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-
Felix Hernandez	Seattle Mariners	1		.000	.143	.000	0	0		19 - 5	0	217	2.49		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
Ian Kinsler	Texas Rangers	1		.253	.327	.488	31	86		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1

Preceded by 2008

Most Valuable Player Award National 2009

Succeeded by 2010

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