Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw win baseball's MVP awards

Mike Trout and Clayton Kershaw win baseball's MVP awards
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The Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout was unanimously selected as the American League's Most Valuable player on Thursday. The star outfielder's hitting, base stealing, and fielding have made him arguably the best player in baseball, statistically, for three years running, but he was runner-up in MVP voting two years in a row. L.A. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, fresh off winning the Cy Young Award, was named National League MVP. He is the first NL pitcher to win the MVP award since Bob Gibson in 1968. Read more at the Los Angeles Times.

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Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.