2011 American League Most Valuable Player Award
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The winner of the 2011 American League Most Valuable Player Award was Justin Verlander of the Detroit Tigers. Verlander had earlier won the Cy Young Award and was the first starting pitcher to earn MVP honors in the American League since Roger Clemens in 1986.
[edit] Award Voting
† indicates playoff team
| Player | Team | Points | AVG | OBP | SLG | HR | RBI | W - L | SV | SO | ERA | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Verlander | Detroit Tigers † | 280 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 24 - 5 | 0 | 250 | 2.40 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | |||
| Jacoby Ellsbury | Boston Red Sox | 242 | .321 | .376 | .552 | 32 | 105 | Did not pitch | 4 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | ||||||
| Jose Bautista | Toronto Blue Jays | 231 | .302 | .447 | .608 | 43 | 103 | Did not pitch | 5 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | ||||||
| Curtis Granderson | New York Yankees † | 215 | .262 | .364 | .552 | 41 | 119 | Did not pitch | 3 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | ||||||
| Miguel Cabrera | Detroit Tigers † | 193 | .344 | .448 | .586 | 30 | 105 | Did not pitch | 2 | - | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | - | 1 | - | ||||||
| Robinson Cano | New York Yankees † | 112 | .302 | .349 | .533 | 28 | 118 | Did not pitch | - | - | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Adrian Gonzalez | Boston Red Sox | 105 | .338 | .410 | .548 | 27 | 117 | Did not pitch | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Michael Young | Texas Rangers † | 96 | .338 | .380 | .474 | 11 | 106 | Did not pitch | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| Dustin Pedroia | Boston Red Sox | 48 | .307 | .387 | .474 | 21 | 91 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 | - | ||||||
| Evan Longoria | Tampa Bay Rays † | 27 | .244 | .355 | .495 | 31 | 99 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | 2 | - | 3 | ||||||
| Ian Kinsler | Texas Rangers † | 25 | .255 | .355 | .477 | 32 | 77 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | ||||||
| Alex Avila | Detroit Tigers † | 13 | .295 | .389 | .506 | 19 | 82 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Paul Konerko | Chicago White Sox | 11 | .300 | .388 | .517 | 31 | 105 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | ||||||
| CC Sabathia | New York Yankees † | 10 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 0 | 19 - 8 | 0 | 230 | 3.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | |||
| Adrian Beltre | Texas Rangers † | 9 | .296 | .331 | .561 | 32 | 105 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Ben Zobrist | Tampa Bay Rays † | 7 | .269 | .353 | .469 | 20 | 91 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||||||
| Victor Martinez | Detroit Tigers † | 7 | .330 | .380 | .470 | 12 | 103 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| James Shields | Tampa Bay Rays † | 7 | .000 | .000 | .000 | 0 | 1 | 16 - 12 | 0 | 225 | 2.82 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 5 | |||
| Mark Teixeira | New York Yankees † | 5 | .248 | .341 | .494 | 39 | 111 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | ||||||
| Asdrubal Cabrera | Cleveland Indians | 4 | .273 | .332 | .460 | 25 | 92 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Alex Gordon | Kansas City Royals | 3 | .303 | .376 | .502 | 323 | 87 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | ||||||
| Josh Hamilton | Texas Rangers † | 1 | .298 | .346 | .536 | 25 | 94 | Did not pitch | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | ||||||
| David Robertson | New York Yankees † | 1 | Did not bat | 4 - 0 | 1 | 100 | 1.08 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | |||||||
| Preceded by 2010 | Most Valuable Player Award National 2011 | Succeeded by 2012 |
