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There’s good stuff, great stuff, and then historic stuff.
What Ronald Acuña Jr. did for the Braves and what Shohei Ohtani did for the Angels in 2023 was historic. And now two of the sport’s biggest stars hold the game’s highest individual honor.
Ohtani captured his second American League Most Valuable Player Award in the last three seasons and Acuña won his first National League MVP – both unanimously – in voting results revealed by the Baseball Writers Association of America in MLB Network on Thursday night. These MVP awards were given to two players who possess incomparable profiles: Ohtani as a two-way unicorn who continues to make historic looks routine, Acuña as a power and speed specialist who rewrote the record books.
This year marked the first time in the history of MVP voting that both winners unanimously claimed the honor, and Ohtani became the first player to win a unanimous MVP award twice in his career.
Although both winners were widely expected, that should not obscure how surprising and spectacular the on-field results provided by these two talents truly were.
But in the final weeks of the season, Acuña, 25, continued creating and naming new clubs, hitting 41 home runs and an MLB-leading 73 steals. There has never been a player in MLB history who had a 40-home run, 70-steal season in his career. The Braves right fielder did both in one season.
Acuña, of course, accomplished this fantastic feat in a new rules environment that aided and abetted base stealers with pickoff limits and bigger bags. But none of the other 13 players who hit more than 35 home runs this season managed even 21 steals, much less 70. Acuña was in a world of his own as he logged 159 games played as the leadoff hitter for a Braves offense that finished the season with the same weighted runs created by the most scoring team (125) as the vaunted 1927 Yankees.
What’s more, Acuña was, according to research by The Athletic’s Jayson Stark, the first player to lead his league in hits (217), runs (149), on-base percentage (.416), OPS (1.012) and total bases ( 383) since Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski with the 1967 Red Sox. The only others to do so were Nap Lajoie (1901), Ty Cobb (1909 and 1915), Rogers Hornsby (1921, 1922 and 1924) and Stan Musial (1948), all members of the Hall of Fame.
Acuña, who plays in the Venezuelan Winter League this offseason, became the Braves’ eighth MVP and first since Freddie Freeman won the award in the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign.
This is the seventh time an Angels player has won MVP, although Ohtani claims this at a time when his whereabouts in 2024 are unclear.
Ahead of arguably the most fascinating MLB free agency in the history of that process, Ohtani took even his unique status to a new extreme. Because in 2023, he wasn’t just an elite hitter and an elite pitcher, as he had been in his 2021 MVP year and his second-place finish in 2022. Ohtani, 29, was actually, in several important aspects, the absolute best hitter in his league. The designated hitter captured the American League home run crown (44) for the first time, led the league in on-base percentage (.412) and total bases (325) and led the MLB in slugging percentage (. 654), OPS (1,066). ) and OPS+ (184).
Ohtani did the above while posting a 3.14 ERA, 142 ERA+ and 167 strikeouts in 132 innings over 23 starts on the mound.
In total, Ohtani’s bWAR mark of 10.0 was the best of his career and 2.6 more than any other player in the American League. With his pitching season cut short by an elbow problem and his hitting season cut short by an oblique injury, Ohtani did all of that in 135 games played, the fewest ever for a player with 10 WAR. the American League home run title despite playing in only three games and not hitting a home run in the month of September. The lost time and his Angels’ continued struggles to build on his gains in the standings did not deny Ohtani his second MVP.
There has never been a player like Ohtani, and there has never been a season like the one Acuña put together. In 2023, these players made history. Now you will have the necessary hardware.
