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| 2008 | Despite nursing a sore elbow during the season, Albert Pujols (.357, 37, 116) wins his second Most Valuable Player award of his eight-year major league career. The 28-year-old All-Star first baseman of the fourth-place Cardinals, the only player listed on every ballot, receives 18 of the 32 first-place votes cast by the BBWAA to outpoint runner-up Ryan Howard of the World Champions Phillies, 369-308. |
| 2009 | Zack Greinke (16-8, 2.16), with 25 of the 28 first-place votes cast by the writers, wins the American League Cy Young Award, joining Steve Carlton of the 1972 Phillies as the only hurlers to win the prestigious pitching prize while toiling for a last-place club. This Saturday, the Royals' right-hander will have another big day when he marries his high school sweetheart, Emily Kuchar, a former Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. |
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