As the Washington Nationals noted in a press release on Anthony Rendon being named the National League’s Comeback Player of the Year for 2016, the award is given out each year to, “one player in each League who has re-emerged on the field during the season.”
Beat reporters for each team at MLB.com vote on the winners, who are selected, “... from an original list of 30 candidates (one per MLB Club).”
As we noted in an article on the award yesterday, Rendon bounced back from an injury-plagued 2015 campaign which saw him put up a .