Inefficient outfielder Josh Hamilton, who helped the Texas Rangers to reach the first World Series, reduced by a storybook season on Tuesday, winning the American League Most Valuable Player Award.
Hamilton, 29, won the title with .359 batting average and led the league inefficiency of action (0.633). He belts 32 home runs and had 100 hits in the works, despite missing most of the last month of the season because of injured ribs.
Talented defensive outfielder and baserunner faster, more success has exceeded the number of Hamilton and his comeback from drug and alcohol addiction that forced him out of the game for several years before had fought their way back. "It 's nice to think about where you are today and where I was, Hamilton told reporters in a conference call.
Texas outfielder ranked first in 22 of the 28 votes cast by two writers in each city in the league in voting by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Detroit Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera has received five first-place votes and was a finalist in the voting.
Cabrera led the league in RBIs (126) and on-base percentage (0420), finished second in hitting (.328) and hit 38 homers. The other vote out for the first time Toronto Blue Jays right fielder Jose Bautista, who belts major league leading 54 homers and was third ahead of New York, Robinson Cano.
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Hamilton helped the Rangers win the American League West and move beyond the Tampa Bay Rays and New York Yankees to send the team to the World Series for the first time in 50 years of existence of the franchise.
As a teenager, Hamilton was considered one of the top prospects in professional baseball, but nearly threw it all away when he became addicted to crack cocaine. After some dark years, Hamilton is clean, dedicated to religion and rehabilitation.
"There was a sort of 99 percent, it would never happen," Hamilton said in the weaknesses of his 20 years. "It was a 100 percent chance if he tried to do it myself. I could not do it myself. With God all things are possible." In the diamond, Hamilton said he believed that in turn the production of all litters him the player more valuable.
"You want to help your team win any way possible every night, that either with a tube, or shoot someone, or make a great catch or stealing a base or score a point,whatever that might be," he said."When I was playing this year I really felt like I did those things."
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