Red Sox American League MVP possibilities for 2021
The Red Sox have an illustrious list of players who have been declared the Most Valuable Player and that lists goes from Tris Speaker in 1912 to Mookie Betts in 2018. Winning certainly helps vote harvesting and Speaker was part of the great 1912 team and Betts with a team just as accomplished. Carl Yastrzemski in 1967, Ted Williams in 1946, Fred Lynn in 1975, and Roger Clemens in 1986 were part of teams that made it to the World Series only to lose.
Mo Vaughn in 1996 and Jackie Jensen in 1958 won the award for teams that went nowhere. Jimmie Foxx won in 1938 with a second-place team and statistics that included a batting championship, 175 RBI, and 50 home runs. Jim Rice in 1978 had numbers that included leading the AL in everything but batting average.
The recent MVP voting is done and the American League winner was Jose Abreu with Jose Ramirez and DJ LeMahieu accounting for second and third place. Alex Verdugo received a fifth-place vote and Xander Bogaerts a tenth place vote and that was it for the Red Sox. So just who has a chance in 2021 to win or place higher in the listings?