Smilin’ Seager finishes third in NL MVP vote
By Jon Weisman
Corey Seager didn’t win the National League Most Valuable Player Award, finishing behind the Cubs’ Kris Bryant and Nationals’ Daniel Murphy, though he became the youngest Dodger ever to finish in the top three — and the first NL rookie to do so since the Dodgers’ Joe Black in 1952.
No vote could diminish the year Seager had, nor the smiles he brought to the faces of millions of Dodger fans — smiles he often shared with us.
The tally of the NL MVP vote by the Baseball Writers Association of America, including individual ballots, can be found here. Seager missed out on second place by only five voting points, finishing just behind Washington’s Daniel Murphy. Seager had the same number of second- and third-place votes, but lacked the lone first-place vote that Murphy got.
The Dodgers’ Justin Turner finished ninth, and Yasmani Grandal got one seventh-place vote to finish 22nd.
