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Andrew McCutchen Finishes Third in MVP Voting

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Major League Baseball announced the National League Most Valuable Player award on Thursday night. Andrew McCutchen finished third behind the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw(winner) and Giancarlo Stanton in voting. He was looking to win back-to-back MVP awards, which was last done in the NL by Albert Pujols in 2008 and 2009. He was also trying to become just the second Pittsburgh Pirates player to win multiple award, following Barry Bonds in 1990 and 1992. McCutchen received four first place votes, ten second place votes and 15 third place votes.

McCutchen had a .314/.410/542 slash line this year and led the league in both OBP and OPS. He hit 38 doubles, six triples, 25 homers, drew 84 walks and scored 89 runs. For the third straight year, he had the highest Offensive WAR(7.8) in the NL.

Josh Harrison finished ninth in the MVP voting, receiving 52 total points and ending up as high as fourth on one ballot. Russell Martin had the 13th highest vote total, finishing seventh on two ballots.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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