A lot of people figured that the 2010 N.L. MVP Award would end up being something of a tight race between Cincinnati's Joey Votto, St. Louis' Albert Pujols, and Colorado's Carlos Gonzalez. Instead, it ended up being a blowout, as Votto picked up 31 of a possible 32 first-place votes for a landslide victory.
The BBWAA website has the full voting results, which are also copied below for your convenience. The other first-place vote went to Pujols, who also picked up 21 of a possible 32 second-place votes. Gonzalez, meanwhile, collected seven second-place votes and 13 third-place votes, rounding out the top three.
For Votto, it's a great honor following a breakthrough season that saw him initially get snubbed from the N.L. All-Star team. He finished the year with a .324 average, a 1.024 OPS, 37 home runs, and 113 RBI, and he was the biggest individual reason why the Reds went 91-71 and made the playoffs for the first time since 1995. Though the Reds were subsequently swept out of the postseason, playoff performance isn't taken into consideration for MLB's awards.
Votto - the 27-year-old Canadian-born first baseman - is the first Reds player to win the N.L. MVP since Barry Larkin in 1995. It's the 12th time a Reds player has won overall.
The full results:
1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | Points | |
Joey Votto, Cincinnati | 31 | 1 | 443 | ||||||||
Albert Pujols, St. Louis | 1 | 21 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 279 | |||||
Carlos Gonzalez, Colorado | 7 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 240 | ||||
Adrian Gonzalez, San Diego | 1 | 3 | 15 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 197 | ||||
Troy Tulowitzki, Colorado | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 132 | |||
Roy Halladay, Philadelphia | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 130 | ||
Aubrey Huff, San Francisco | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 70 | |||
Jayson Werth, Philadelphia | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 52 | ||||
Martin Prado, Atlanta | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 51 | ||||
Ryan Howard, Philadelphia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 50 | ||||
Buster Posey, San Francisco | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 40 | |||
Matt Holliday, St. Louis | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 32 | ||||||
Brian Wilson, San Francisco | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 28 | |||||
Scott Rolen, Cincinnati | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 26 | |||||
Ryan Braun, Milwaukee | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | |||||
Ryan Zimmerman, Washington | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 18 | ||||||
Carlos Ruiz, Philadelphia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |||||||
Dan Uggla, Florida | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 12 | ||||||
Adam Wainwright, St. Louis | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 | |||||||
Jason Heyward, Atlanta | 2 | 1 | 1 | 11 | |||||||
Brian McCann, Atlanta | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | |||||||
Adam Dunn, Washington | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | |||||||
Ubaldo Jimenez, Colorado | 1 | 7 | |||||||||
David Wright, New York | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
Corey Hart, Milwaukee | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Josh Johnson, Florida | 1 | 2 | |||||||||
Heath Bell, San Diego | 2 | 2 |