{"id":2381,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2381","headline":"Yordan Alvarez wins unanimous AL MVP after bounce-back season","dek":"The Astros slugger received all 30 first-place votes, capping a comeback from an injury-riddled 2025 that nearly ended in a Triple Crown.","body":"Yordan Alvarez has finally added an MVP trophy to a resume that already had plenty of other hardware. The Astros designated hitter was named American League Most XXXX Valuable Player on Thursday, sweeping all 30 first-place votes from BBWAA writers for a unanimous selection.\n\nThe award caps a bounce-back year for Alvarez, who dealt with injuries in 2025 before returning to form in 2026 with a season dominant enough to put him in Triple Crown contention. He did it almost entirely as a hitter rather than a fielder, appearing in just 25 games in the field while doing his damage at the plate.\n\nAlvarez was already established as one of the sport's premier hitters, having built his reputation over the better part of a decade with Houston. He was acquired by the Astros at the 2016 trade deadline, arriving from the Dodgers organization in exchange for reliever Josh Fields after only a few weeks in that system. Since then he has helped Houston to a World Series championship and racked up individual accolades, though an MVP trophy had eluded him until now.\n\nThe unanimous vote cements Alvarez among the game's defining hitters of his era, regular-season MVP or not previously in hand.","published_at":"2026-11-13T00:34:32.675934+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Yordan Alvarez has been one of MLB's elite hitters for years. Now he finally has an MVP to solidify it","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/yordan-alvarez-has-been-one-of-mlbs-elite-hitters-for-years-now-he-finally-has-an-mvp-to-solidify-it-002738245.html"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez named American League MVP after nearly winning 2026 Triple Crown","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/mlb-2026-american-league-mvp-yordan-alvarez-astros/"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"Astros DH Yordan Alvarez wins AL MVP after dominant offensive season","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7766068/2026/11/12/yordan-alvarez-astros-al-mvp/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Houston Astros' Yordan Alvarez wins AL's Hank Aaron Award among accolades at MLB Awards","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/houston-astros-yordan-alvarez-wins-060651341.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Yordan Alvarez wins AL MVP award after the Astros slugger made a run at the Triple Crown","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/yordan-alvarez-wins-al-mvp-002246288.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Astros star Yordan Alvarez unanimously wins AL MVP award after flirtation with Triple Crown","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/breaking-news/article/astros-star-yordan-alvarez-unanimously-wins-al-mvp-award-after-flirtation-with-triple-crown-002354386.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Astros' Yordan Alvarez supplants Aaron Judge as AL MVP after eerily similar season","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/astros-yordan-alvarez-supplants-aaron-002557122.html"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}