2012 American League Most Valuable Player Award
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The winner of the 2012 American League Most Valuable Player Award was Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers.
There was quite a debate before the vote between "traditionalists", who saw Cabrera's winning of the Triple Crown - the first since 1967 as a historical achievement - and the more sabermetrically-oriented writers who considered that Mike Trout, whose WAR was much higher, should have been a clear winner. The traditionalists won out this time.
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 | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Miguel Cabrera | Detroit Tigers † | 362 | .330 | .393 | .606 | 44 | 139 | Did not pitch | 22 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
Mike Trout | Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim | 281 | .326 | .399 | .564 | 30 | 83 | Did not pitch | 6 | 21 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||||
Adrian Beltre | Texas Rangers † | 210 | .321 | .359 | .561 | 36 | 102 | Did not pitch | - | 1 | 16 | 9 | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | ||||||
Robinson Cano | New York Yankees † | 149 | .313 | .379 | .550 | 33 | 94 | Did not pitch | - | - | 6 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | - | ||||||
Josh Hamilton | Texas Rangers † | 127 | .285 | .354 | .577 | 43 | 128 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | 3 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
Adam Jones | Baltimore Orioles † | 124 | .287 | .334 | .505 | 32 | 82 | Did not pitch | - | - | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | - | ||||||
Derek Jeter | New York Yankees † | 73 | .316 | .362 | .429 | 15 | 58 | Did not pitch | - | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Justin Verlander | Detroit Tigers † | 58 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 17 - 8 | 0 | 239 | 2.64 | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | |||
Prince Fielder | Detroit Tigers † | 56 | .313 | .412 | .528 | 30 | 108 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
Yoenis Cespedes | Oakland Athletics † | 41 | .292 | .356 | .505 | 23 | 82 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
Edwin Encarnacion | Toronto Blue Jays | 33 | .280 | .384 | .557 | 42 | 110 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 5 | - | 6 | ||||||
David Price | Tampa Bay Rays | 26 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 20 - 5 | 0 | 205 | 2.56 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 3 | - | 1 | - | - | |||
Fernando Rodney | Tampa Bay Rays | 24 | Did not bat | 2 - 2 | 48 | 76 | 0.60 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
Jim Johnson | Baltimore Orioles † | 24 | Did not bat | 2 - 1 | 51 | 41 | 2.49 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | - | |||||||
Alex Rios | Chicago White Sox | 17 | .304 | .334 | .516 | 25 | 91 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | ||||||
Josh Reddick | Oakland Athletics † | 14 | .242 | .305 | .463 | 32 | 85 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | ||||||
Albert Pujols | Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim | 8 | .285 | .343 | .516 | 30 | 105 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Ben Zobrist | Tampa Bay Rays | 7 | .270 | .377 | .471 | 20 | 74 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | ||||||
Joe Mauer | Minnesota Twins | 6 | .319 | .416 | .446 | 10 | 85 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 3 | ||||||
Rafael Soriano | New York Yankees † | 5 | Did not bat | 2 - 1 | 42 | 69 | 2.26 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | |||||||
Matt Wieters | Baltimore Orioles † | 4 | .249 | .329 | .435 | 23 | 83 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | ||||||
Felix Hernandez | Seattle Mariners | 2 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 0 | 2 | 13 - 9 | 0 | 223 | 3.06 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | |||
Jered Weaver | Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim | 2 | .500 | .667 | .500 | 0 | 0 | 20 - 5 | 0 | 142 | 2.81 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | |||
Raul Ibanez | New York Yankees † | 1 | .240 | .308 | .453 | 19 | 62 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
Preceded by 2011 |
Most Valuable Player Award National 2012 |
Succeeded by 2013 |
Further Reading[edit]
- Peter B. Gregg: "The Struggle to Define 'Valuable': Tradition vs. Sabermetrics in the 2012 AL MVP Race", Baseball Research Journal, SABR, Volume 46, Number 2 (Fall 2017), pp. 116-124.
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