Aaron Judge named 2022 AL MVP over Shohei Ohtani

Aaron Judge’s dominant performance earned him this year’s AL MVP award, beating out Angels’ two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani and Houston’s Yordan Álvarez.

Judge’s dominant performance earned him this year’s AL MVP award, beating out Angels’ two-way sensation Shohei Ohtani and Houston’s Yordan Álvarez. Judge received 28 first-place votes, while runner-up Ohtani got two. Guardians third baseman José Ramírez and Astros second baseman Jose Altuve finished fourth and fifth in the voting, respectively.