Awards season is now behind us, and we are fully entrenched in the offseason. But, between retrospectives on the 2025 Yankees, and awards voting still relatively fresh on the mind, I was brought down a rabbit hole of past MVP voting. There are plenty of Yankees who have gotten surprising first-place votes on MVP ballots, and I thought it might be fun to look back on some of them. From forgotten catchers to fan-favorites, plenty of players not named Judge or Rodriguez have gotten love on the year-end ballots over the last half-century.

2020 – DJ LeMahieu

After signing a low stakes deal with the Yankees and a breakout 2019 season in New York, DJ LeMahieu turned it up even more in 2020. It’s a shame the season was only 60 games, because his 177 wRC+ was tops in the Junior Circuit, and he ha

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