strategic WAR (Wins Above Replacement) wRC+ (Weighted Runs Created Plus) and defensive performance get commonly used to evaluate a player’s impact in baseball. However, for awards like MVP and ...

David Schoenfield recently simulated the 2025 season and highlighted the most surprising outcomes, with Harris’ 8.3 WAR ... in the MVP conversation. While Schoenfield and a lot of baseball ...

According to Baseball-Reference ... winning Cabrera took the MVP--and the vote wasn’t all that close. Trout settled for second place despite producing 10.5 WAR as a rookie.