The 2026 MLB season is just over a third of the way through, and there’s been little separation in the race for the AL MVP award.
Other awards races have garnered more attention in the early goings, and that’s somewhat understandable. The NL Cy Young award, in particular, has seen a crowded field of arms off to dominant starts—Shohei Ohtani, Cristopher Sánchez and Jacob Misiorowski, to name a few—while the rookie classes in both leagues appear to be loaded.
