Trout finished second in MVP voting as a rookie in 2012 and again in 2013. Both years, Miguel Cabrera of the Tigers was given the hardware.
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This year Trout, 23, beat out Victor Martinez of the Tigers and Michael Brantley of the Indians. Trout received all 30 first-place votes and 420 points. Martinez received 229 points and Brantley received 185.
The center fielder hit .287/.377/.561 with 36 homers for the AL West champion Angels. He led the AL in RBIs (111), runs (115), total bases (338) and bWAR (7.9) while also finishing among the league leaders in home runs, doubles, on-base percentage and slugging.
“It’s something special, for sure,” Trout said. “If you would have told me this before the season started, I would have just laughed at you. It’s just an unbelievable feeling.”
At 23 years, 52 days on the final day of the regular season, Trout is younger than all MVPs except Vida Blue (1971), Johnny Bench (1970), Stan Musial (1943) and Cal Ripken Jr. (1983), according to STATS. Musial, Bench and Blue were 22, and Ripken was 23 years, 39 days.
He is the third Angels player to win after Don Baylor (1979) and Vladimir Guerrero (2004).
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
