page_title: Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award
section_title: Baseball Writers Association of America's Most Valuable Player (1931–present)
hierarchical_section_title: Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award / Baseball Writers Association of America's Most Valuable Player (1931–present)
caption_attribution_description: Jimmie Foxx of the Boston Red Sox, cropped from a posed picture of 1937 Major League Baseball All-Stars in Washington, DC. 38°55′3″N 77°1′13″W&#xfeff; / &#xfeff;38.9175°N 77.02028°W
context_page_description: The Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player Award is a Major League Baseball award given each year to one outstanding player in the American and National Leagues. Since 1931, it has been awarded by the Baseball Writers Association of America. The winner receives the Kenesaw Mountain Landis Memorial Baseball Award. The award is named in honor of the first MLB commissioner. Landis served from 1920 to 1944. MVP voting takes place before the postseason. The results are not announced until after the World Series. The BBWAA began asking three writers in each league city in 1938. They made that number two per league city in 1961.
  First basemen, with 34 winners, have won the most MVPs among infielders. This is followed by second basemen, third basemen, and shortstops. Of the twenty-four pitchers who have won the award, fifteen are right-handed while nine are left-handed. Walter Johnson, Carl Hubbell, and Hal Newhouser are the only pitchers to win more than once. Newhouser won his in back-to-back seasons, 1944 and 1945. Stan Musial, Alex Rodriguez, and Robin Yount have won at different positions.
context_section_description: The BBWAA first awarded the modern MVP after the 1931 season, took the format the National League used to distribute its league award. One writer in each city with a team filled out a ten-place ballot. Ten points were given for the recipient of a first-place vote, nine for a second-place vote, and so on. In 1938, the BBWAA raised the amount of voters to three per city and gave 14 points for a first-place vote. The only significant change since then happened in 1961, when the number of voters was lowered to two per league city.
caption: Jimmie Foxx was the first player to win three MVP awards.
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