CHICAGO — Chicago White Sox first baseman José Abreu has been named American League Most Valuable Player as voted by the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Abreu, 33, received 374 points (21 first-place votes) to outdistance second-place finisher Jose Ramirez of Cleveland (303 points). He becomes the fourth player in White Sox history (fifth time) to win the award, joining Frank Thomas (1993–94), Dick Allen (1972) and Nellie Fox (1959), and he joins Minnesota’s Zoilo Versalles (1965) and Oakland’s José Canseco (1988) as the only natives of Cuba to receive the honor. Abreu is the 28th player in major-league history to win both Rookie of the Year (2014) and MVP honors.