This is one of those rare years that there isn't really a clear obvious choice for AL MVP. As you can see Dustin Pedroia was the winner with a sizable lead over Joe Mauer in second. Grady Sizemore is third in the voting but had the same number of first place votes as Pedroia had, but he was left off a few people's ballots. I'm not sold on Pedroia as the winner but he's likely as good a choice as any, really any of the top handful would be equally as good a choice. Sizemore likely had as good a season as any but likely lost out because his time didn't do well this year.

In the interests of full disclosure, my first pick was Kevin Youkilis. My other choices made the top 9 of the vote. My one pick that didn't make the top ten was Vladimir Guerrero, who I was the only one to vote for. And I'm willing to admit I may have been wrong on that.

The only Jay to get votes was Doc and he is clearly the Jay's MVP. We could have a good debate on who should be second in the Jay's MVP list, I would lean towards Downs.

The NL List:

Congratulations to the NL voters for picking the players that was clearly the best in spite of him not being on a team that finished in the playoffs. Beyond that I have no really opinion of the NL vote.