Shohei Ohtani of the Anaheim Angels and Ronald Acuna, Jr., of the Atlanta Braves were the unanimous winners of the American League Most Valuable Player Award and the National League Most Valuable Player Award, respectively.
The Texas Rangers had their middle infielders finish second and third in the voting. Seager received 24 second place votes and six third place votes to finish second, while Semien received five second place votes. Weirdly, Semien received three fifth place votes and three seventh place votes, but no sixth place votes. Julio Rodriguez, Kyle Tucker and Yandy Diaz were fourth, fifth and sixth.