Major League Baseball officially wrapped up awards week Thursday, handing out Most Valuable Player Awards to a pair of first basemen — José Abreu of the Chicago White Sox and Freddie Freeman of the Atlanta Braves.
While there was no real drama surrounding the award announcements — every winner, beginning with Don Mattingly’s Manager of the Year Award on Monday and ending with Freeman’s MVP on Thursday, was considered a worthy selection by the pool of writers selected from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America — we could still couldn’t escape without a little controversy.