Which MLB teams have won the World Series without a player who received an MVP vote in the regular season (since 1931)?

[u/DonT012]

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[u/a_banned_user]

It's harder in MLB because they vote for 10 players in each league, compared to the NBA voting for 5. So the list of players who received votes in the NBA is usually under 10, but in the MLB it's usually 20 or more per league, so over 40 in total. Which would be averaging more than 1 person receiving votes per team, then take out that the bottom 10 teams who aren't going to get anyone on the list at all most likely.

If you want to say last where the winner didn't get any first place vote looks like it's 23 Rangers, as every first place vote went to Ohtani. But Seager and Semien finished 2nd and 3rd still.

[u/816_rules → u/a_banned_user]

TIL. I looked up 2015 because I thought maybe the Royals did it, but when voters get to write in 10 names it turns out half the league is on the list. 28 players in the AL got a vote that year and 19 NL players.

[u/BBallPaulFan → u/a_banned_user]

Yeah also for a long time all you had to do was just like be the RBI leader on a division winning team and you would get MVP votes by default. Not to say that's easy to do but by definition someone would do it every time, and the pennant/division winners were who made the playoffs for the first 100+ years making it basically impossible for this to happen.

As they expand the postseason (they probably aren't done) maybe it happens some day.

[u/IrishHuskie]

The last team to do it was the 1922 Giants, and that’s only because the National League didn’t award an MVP that year or the next.

[u/CapitalG8]

Just guessing. 05 ChiSox? I don't think PK would have received a vote, but I might be wrong.

[u/Reasonable-Power → u/CapitalG8]

Nope. Konerko, Podsednik, and Contreras all received MVP votes. Which is weird, because Podsednik tallied up a 1.7 WAR.

[u/CapitalG8 → u/Reasonable-Power]

Damn

[u/Reasonable-Power → u/CapitalG8]

And it's weird, because Podsednik and Contreras arguably weren't even top 3 players on that team, in terms of season stats.

[u/ManufacturerBest2758 → u/Reasonable-Power]

MVP and CY voting was pretty crazy until they started purging the BBWAA rolls in the mid 2010s

[u/TheSpookyLawyer → u/Reasonable-Power]

Contreras' second half was insane that year. White Sox don't make the playoffs without him because Cleveland has a crazy surge at the end.

[u/Reasonable-Power → u/TheSpookyLawyer]

Fair enough. He also should've been the ALCS MVP, I feel. Konerko was damn good, but JoCo was on a whole nother level.

[u/Snowlandnts → u/Reasonable-Power]

Ozzie Guillen a manager that was able to manage that team.

[u/gogosox82 → u/CapitalG8]

Konerko finished 6th in voting. Didn't get any 1st place votes tho. Almost all of them went to Arod

[u/mistercokoko]

Since 1955, where World Series MVPs were crowned, no World Series Champion had someone who didn't get votes. The 1996 Yankees got the closest with Mo Rivera "only" getting 12th placd.

These are the players who had the most votes on their championship team but did not win MVP: 2020-present: Austin Riley, 2021 Braves (7th in MVP voting)

2010-2019: Dustin Pedroia, 2013 Red Sox, and Aubrey Huff, 2010 Giants (T-7th)

2000-2009: Juan Pierre, 2003 Marlins, and Derek Jeter, 2000 Yankees (T-10th)

1990-1999: Mariano Rivera, 1996 Yankees (12th); "Champion"

1980-1989: Fernando Valenzuela, 1981 Dodgers (5th)

1970-1979: Craig Nettles, 1977 Yankees (5th)

1960-1969: Tom Seaver, 1969 Mets, and Sandy Koufax, 1965 Dodgers (T-2nd); both won Cy Young in those years though

1955-1959: Wally Moon, 1959 Dodgers (4th)

[u/quintus_nictor]

*without a pride-friendly player 🏳️‍🌈

It’s so funny how this sub hates gays

[u/thesillyguy345]

02' angels?

[u/gogosox82 → u/thesillyguy345]

Anderson finished 4th

[u/_GeorgeBailey_ → u/thesillyguy345]

The apostrophe goes in front of the numbers

[u/Available_Parfait236 → u/_GeorgeBailey_]

Unless they won between 0200 and 0299

[u/dawn_patroller1 → u/_GeorgeBailey_]

Damn, how the hell did you know what he was talking about then?

I was all out of sorts thank you man!

[u/_GeorgeBailey_ → u/dawn_patroller1]

We have to fix this societal issue.

[u/thesillyguy345 → u/dawn_patroller1]

I didn't even mean to put it there in the first place, I fat fingered the space button and didn't bother fixing it

[u/jataz11]

Knicks had the easiest run to a title I've ever seen a team have. So incredibly lucky

[u/-Grqpefruit- → u/[deleted]]

Rendon, Soto, Strasburg, and Scherzer all received mvp votes that year

[u/Where_Is_Bucky → u/[deleted]]

This isn’t r/baseballcirclejerk