most valuable player

Major League Baseball handed out its 2013 Most Valuable Player awards on Thursday, with Detroit Tigers third baseman Miguel Cabrera winning for the second-consecutive year in the American League, and Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Andrew McCutchen capturing the honor in the National League.

Detroit's Justin Verlander has won the American League Most Valuable Player Award. Verlander, who won the Cy Young award last week, is the first starting pitcher to win the award since Roger Clemens did it with the Red Sox 25 years ago. Verlander received 13 first place votes to outdistance Boston's Jacolby Ellsbury, Toronto's Jose Bautista and the Yankees' Curtis Granderson...