Pete Crow-Armstrong and Yordan Alvarez win unanimous MVPs, and for the first time all four top awards were unanimous

Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong and Houston Astros slugger Yordan Alvarez were named unanimous Most Valuable Player winners Thursday night. With Jacob Misiorowski and Cam Schlittler winning the Cy Young Awards unanimously on Wednesday, it is the first season in which both MVPs and both Cy Young winners were unanimous, MLB said.

Crow-Armstrong goes from ninth to first

Crow-Armstrong, 24, got all 30 first-place votes in the National League. Shohei Ohtani finished second and Milwaukee's Brice Turang was third, ESPN reported. He is the 13th Cub to win the award and the first since Kris Bryant in 2016.

He hit 45 home runs, tied for the most in the majors, with 107 RBI, an MLB-best 119 runs, 41 stolen bases and a .943 OPS that led the NL, according to MLB. He also won the Gold Glove and Platinum Glove. ESPN's Jesse Rogers reported that he often batted ninth early in the season before Craig Counsell moved him to leadoff in mid-May, and that he drew 83 walks after drawing 29 the year before.

He still wants more in October. Crow-Armstrong went 0 for 7 in this year's playoffs. "I'm capable but haven't gotten to the point of impacting games when it really matters," he said.

Alvarez's healthy year

Alvarez, 29, beat out Tampa Bay's Junior Caminero and Kansas City's Bobby Witt Jr. for his first MVP. He won the batting title at .316, hit 42 home runs, drove in 106 runs and led the majors with 109 walks and a 1.033 OPS. ESPN said his .432 on-base percentage was 46 points higher than anyone else's.

He played in 158 games after a 2025 season cut to 48 games by a wrist fracture and a sprained ankle, and he was also named AL Comeback Player of the Year on Wednesday. Asked what changed, he said: "I was healthy."

Alvarez is the 31st player to win both Rookie of the Year and MVP, and the third Astro to win MVP after Jeff Bagwell (1994) and Jose Altuve (2017). Schlittler finished fourth in the AL MVP voting.