2011 American League Most Valuable Player Award

The winner of the 2011 American League Most Valuable Player Award was Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers. Verlander had earlier won the Cy Young Award and was the first starting pitcher to earn MVP honors in the American League since Roger Clemens in 1986.

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
Justin Verlander	Detroit Tigers †	280		.000	.000	.000	0	0		24 - 5	0	250	2.40		13	3	3	4	1	2	-	1	-	-
Jacoby Ellsbury	Boston Red Sox	242		.321	.376	.552	32	105		Did not pitch					4	13	4	1	4	1	-	-	-	1
Jose Bautista	Toronto Blue Jays	231		.302	.447	.608	43	103		Did not pitch					5	7	4	4	4	1	1	1	1	-
Curtis Granderson	New York Yankees †	215		.262	.364	.552	41	119		Did not pitch					3	4	4	8	6	1	2	-	-	-
Miguel Cabrera	Detroit Tigers †	193		.344	.448	.586	30	105		Did not pitch					2	-	9	5	5	2	4	-	1	-
Robinson Cano	New York Yankees †	112		.302	.349	.533	28	118		Did not pitch					-	-	2	2	3	6	4	5	1	1
Adrian Gonzalez	Boston Red Sox	105		.338	.410	.548	27	117		Did not pitch					-	-	1	1	2	6	8	3	3	1
Michael Young	Texas Rangers †	96		.338	.380	.474	11	106		Did not pitch					1	1	1	1	1	1	4	7	4	2
Dustin Pedroia	Boston Red Sox	48		.307	.387	.474	21	91		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	4	1	4	6	-
Evan Longoria	Tampa Bay Rays †	27		.244	.355	.495	31	99		Did not pitch					-	-	-	2	-	-	1	2	-	3
Ian Kinsler	Texas Rangers †	25		.255	.355	.477	32	77		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	1	2	1	1	1	-
Alex Avila	Detroit Tigers †	13		.295	.389	.506	19	82		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	2	2
Paul Konerko	Chicago White Sox	11		.300	.388	.517	31	105		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	1
CC Sabathia	New York Yankees †	10		.000	.000	.000	0	0		19 - 8	0	230	3.00		-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-
Adrian Beltre	Texas Rangers †	9		.296	.331	.561	32	105		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	1
Ben Zobrist	Tampa Bay Rays †	7		.269	.353	.469	20	91		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	1
Victor Martinez	Detroit Tigers †	7		.330	.380	.470	12	103		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	2
James Shields	Tampa Bay Rays †	7		.000	.000	.000	0	1		16 - 12	0	225	2.82		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	5
Mark Teixeira	New York Yankees †	5		.248	.341	.494	39	111		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1
Asdrubal Cabrera	Cleveland Indians	4		.273	.332	.460	25	92		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2
Alex Gordon	Kansas City Royals	3		.303	.376	.502	323	87		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3
Josh Hamilton	Texas Rangers †	1		.298	.346	.536	25	94		Did not pitch					-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
David Robertson	New York Yankees †	1		Did not bat						4 - 0	1	100	1.08		-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1

Preceded by 2010

Most Valuable Player Award National 2011

Succeeded by 2012

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