Below are point totals for the balloting for the Most Valuable Player Awards, as voted on by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America. Ballots for each award were submitted before the start of the postseason from two writers in every city, based on the league covered.

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The system rewards 14 points for first place, nine for second place, eight for third place, and so on, through one point for 10th place.

National League results

1. Cody Bellinger, LAD: 19 (1st place), 10 (2nd place), 1 (5th place) -- 362
2. Christian Yelich, MIL: 10 (1st), 18 (2nd), 1 (3rd), 1 (4th) -- 317
3. Anthony Rendon, WSH: 1 (1st), 1 (2nd), 24 (3rd), 3 (4th), 1 (5th) -- 242
4. Ketel Marte, ARI: 3 (3rd), 18 (4th), 4 (5th), 4 (6th), 1 (7th) -- 198
5. Ronald Acuña Jr., ATL: 1 (3rd), 5 (4th), 7 (5th), 9 (6th), 5 (7th), 2 (9th), 1 (10th) -- 155
6. Nolan Arenado, COL: 1 (3rd), 1 (4th), 6 (5th), 4 (6th), 9 (7th), 2 (8th), 3 (9th), 1 (10th) -- 120
7. Pete Alonso, NYM: 2 (5th), 5 (6th), 6 (7th), 11 (8th), 3 (9th), 2 (10th) -- 102
8. Freddie Freeman, ATL: 1 (2nd), 2 (4th), 5 (5th), 3 (6th), 3 (7th), 1 (8th), 3 (9th), 1 (10th) -- 90
9. Juan Soto, WSH: 1 (6th), 6 (8th), 9 (9th), 4 (10th) -- 45
10. Jacob deGrom, NYM: 4 (5th), 1 (6th), 1 (7th), 1 (8th), 3 (9th), 2 (10th) -- 44
11. Josh Donaldson, ATL: 1 (6th), 3 (7th), 1 (8th), 2 (9th), 3 (10th) -- 27
12. Trevor Story, COL: 2 (6th), 1 (7th), 2 (8th), 2 (9th), 2 (10th) -- 26
13. Jack Flaherty, STL: 1 (7th), 1 (8th), 2 (10th) -- 9
14. J.T. Realmuto, PHI: 2 (8th), 2 (10th) -- 8
    T-15) Yasmani Grandal, MIL: 2 (9th) -- 4
    T-15) Max Muncy, LAD: 1 (8th), 1 (10th) -- 4
    T-15) Stephen Strasburg, WSH: 1 (8th), 1 (10th) -- 4
    T-15) Eugenio Suárez, CIN: 4 (10th) -- 4
15. Hyun-Jin Ryu, LAD: 1 (8th) -- 3
    T-20) Paul Goldschmidt, STL: 1 (9th) -- 2
    T-20) Kolten Wong, STL: 2 (10th) -- 2
    T-22) Kevin Pillar, SF: 1 (10th) -- 1
    T-22) Max Scherzer ,WSH: 1 (10th) -- 1

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American League Results

1. Mike Trout, LAA: 17 (1st place), 13 (2nd place) -- 355
2. Alex Bregman, HOU: 13 (1st), 17 (2nd) -- 335
3. Marcus Semien, OAK: 22 (3rd), 6 (4th), 2 (6th) -- 228
4. DJ LeMahieu, NYY: 6 (3rd), 10 (4th), 7 (5th), 1 (6th), 2 (7th), 1 (8th), 2 (10th) -- 178
5. Xander Bogaerts, BOS: 1 (3rd), 6 (4th), 7 (5th), 7 (6th), 2 (7th), 2 (8th), 3 (9th) -- 147
6. Matt Chapman, OAK: 1 (4th), 3 (6th), 10 (7th), 5 (8th), 5 (9th), 2 (10th) -- 89
7. George Springer, HOU: 1 (4th), 2 (5th), 1 (6th), 3 (7th), 7 (8th), 5 (9th), 2 (10th) -- 69
8. Mookie Betts, BOS: 1 (4th), 1 (5th), 4 (6th), 4 (7th), 3 (8th), 2 (9th), 5 (10th) -- 67
9. Nelson Cruz, MIN: 4 (5th), 3 (6th), 3 (7th), 2 (8th), 2 (9th), 1 (10th) -- 62
10. Gerrit Cole, HOU: 2 (4th), 4 (5th), 2 (6th), 1 (7th), 2 (8th), 1 (9th), 1 (10th) -- 61
11. Justin Verlander, HOU: 1 (3rd), 2 (4th), 1 (5th), 3 (6th), 1 (7th), 1 (8th), 2 (9th), 2 (10th) -- 56
12. Rafael Devers, BOS: 1 (4th), 1 (5th), 2 (6th), 3 (8th), 4 (9th) -- 40
13. Jorge Polanco, MIN: 2 (6th), 1 (7th), 2 (9th), 2 (10th) -- 20
14. Austin Meadows, TB: 1 (5th), 1 (8th), 1 (9th), 4 (10th) -- 15
15. Francisco Lindor, CLE: 1 (5th), 1 (7th), 1 (9th), 1 (10th) -- 13
16. Carlos Santana, CLE: 1 (7th), 1 (8th), 2 (10th) -- 9
17. Gleyber Torres, NYY: 1 (5th), 1 (9th) -- 8
18. Eddie Rosario, MIN: 2 (8th) -- 6
19. José Abreu, CWS: 1 (7th), 1 (10th) -- 5
20. Max Kepler, MIN: 1 (9th) -- 2
    T-21) J.D. Martinez, BOS: 1 (10th) -- 1
    T-21) Yoán Moncada, CWS: 1 (10th) -- 1
    T-21) Charlie Morton, TB: 1 (10th) -- 1
    T-21) Matt Olson, OAK: 1 (10th) -- 1
    T-21) Jorge Soler, KC: 1 (10th) -- 1