Mauer near-unanimous pick as American League MVP NEW YORK- Joe Mauer became only the second catcher in 33 years to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award, finishing first in a near-unanimous vote Monday. Damon ... at his East Sacramento home. Pujols Expected To Take Home Third MVP Award The Baseball Writers’ Association of America will ...

... Athletics prospect Grant Desme is Arizona Fall League MVP - Examiner The Arizona Fall ... season on Saturday. On Saturday, the Arizona Fall League completed its eighteenth season when the Peoria Javelinas ... sign 3B Dallas McPherson to minor league deal - Muscatine Journal … third baseman ... Dallas McPherson to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training. McPherson is expected to compete ...

It’s unanimous: Pujols is National League MVP You can’t say enough about how great Albert Pojols is. This is his third MVP in a row a feat only topped by Barry Bonds. Albert is by far the best player in the National Leauge and In my humble opinion the second best player in baseball topped only

After winning his third National League MVP award, what can be said about Albert Pujols that hasn't been uttered already - he is the best player in the Major Leagues not named Joe Mauer. Pujols has done his thing since his rookie year - the numbers are staggering and the numbers don't seem real in the sense they are 'video game numbers. Pujols ...

... 28 first-place votes to win the American League Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award on November 23, 2009. ... percentage (.444) and slugging percentage (.587) -- the first American League player to do that since George Brett in 1980. What fueled his ... for winning the award, and it likely won't be the only spoils he will enjoy because of being the MVP. He recently signed with marketing powerhouse IMG, ...

... Cardinals first baseman Albert Pujols has been named the National League’s Most Valuable Player.  Unlike Joe Mauer, who was given the award for the American League just yesterday, Pujols snagged his third MVP by unanimous decision, capturing all 28 ... the best player in baseball today.  As mentioned above, this is his third career MVP award, joining a small class of men who have ...

... perhaps the second-best season in Derek Jeter history, are squaring off for the AL MVP.  As sea-changes go the offseason of 2009 has seemed a little forced—Zack Greinke was both astonishingly ... Tim Lincecum was a repeat champion facing off against two pitchers on the same team who led the league in strikeouts and pitched thirty innings more than his nearest competitor. This will be no ...

Mauer is pretty awesome, our guys finished far back at second and third place.  By the way, I think I recall that  our SS and 1B are World Champions. Read something about that. Teixeira has a ring, and the last picture I saw of Jeter he was on a beach with Minka.  Hope they can endure their MVP also-ran disappointment.

Winning for the first time is Cobra center fielder Chad White. Chad hit 32 homeruns, led the league with 120 RBI, stole 35 bases, and played his usual excellent defense in center. The voting: 38 Chad White 27 Hank Crowell 19 Brett Solo 16 Keith Lee 10 Pedro Lewis 7 Manfred Mueller 5 Derek Howe 4 Miguel Tejawa

Although the Boston Blazers don’t look like they’ll be getting first round pick Max Seibald to a contract this year, the franchise is still really amped up for a big 2010 National Lacrosse League season. Check out Dan Dawson’s highlight package below, and hit up this link for more Blazers videos.

... positive that Longoria, Cabrera, Zobrist, Jeter and Youkilis were in there somewhere. The only two AL teams not represented on this list?  Oakland and Chicago. Poll Who gets your vote for American League MVP? Joe Mauer   367 votes | Results

... 39; second-year running back, Chris Johnson, joked Wednesday after practice that he intends to launch an MVP campaign soon. "Of course I should be in the conversation," he said. "And I'm about to start a ... true for him to win the honor. "I don't understand that," he said "MVP, that's an individual goal, that's not a team goal. Last year, my team, we ...

By RONALD BLUM The Associated Press Monday, November 23, 2009 3:16 PM NEW YORK -- Joe Mauer became only the second catcher in 33 years to win the American League Most Valuable Player Award, finishing first in a near-unanimous vote Monday. The Minnesota Twins star received 27 of 28 first-place votes and 387 points in balloting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Yankees teammates ...

... Minnesota Twins catcher Joe Mauer American League MVP for 2009, and they did so by awarding him 27 of 28 first ... leading Slugging % of .587, becoming the last player to lead his league in all three categories since George Brett of the Kansas City ... catcher in the history of the award (1931) to take home the MVP and at 26 he just may actually get better. That's Scary! Sometimes the writer's ...

... St. Louis Cardinals today was unaminously named the National League’s Most Valuable Player. Pujols received first place votes ... 12th and 13th players in Diamondbacks' history to appear on NL MVP ballots. (Photo: Kathy Willens/AP) N.L. ... a .300 batting average. No Diamondback player has ever won the National League MVP Award since their inception in 1998. Diamondbacks History in National ...