{"id":870832,"date":"2026-08-25T11:26:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870832\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T11:26:11","slug":"ranking-mlbs-top-10-al-and-nl-mvp-candidates-for-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/870832\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking MLB&#8217;s Top 10 AL and NL MVP Candidates For 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">2026 Stats: .320 BA, 36 HR, 90 RBI, 1.049 OPS, <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fangraphs.com\/leaders\/major-league?type=8&amp;lg=al&amp;pos=all&amp;stats=bat&amp;month=33\">5.8 WAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Yordan Alvarez was limited to just 48 games last season. He&#8217;s returned in 2026 with a season that&#8217;s trending towards netting him his first AL MVP Award. A third-place finish in 2022 is his highest to this point. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Not only is Alvarez currently in line to win the Triple Crown as the AL leading in batting average, RBI and home runs, but he also tops the junior circuit in on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS, OPS+, intentional walks and total bases. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">That sure sounds like an MVP. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026 Stats: .320 BA, 36 HR, 90 RBI, 1.049 OPS, 5.8 WAR Yordan Alvarez was limited to just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-870832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}