Detroit's Miguel Cabrera won the American League's Most Valuable Player award today after becoming baseball's first Triple Crown winner in 45 years. San Francisco's Buster Posey was voted the National League honor. (Bleacher Report has a slide show with specifics here.)
- Cabrera received 22 of 28 first-place votes and 362 points from the AL panel of Baseball Writers' Association of America to win easily. He hit .330 with 44 homers and 139 RBIs to become the first Triple Crown winner since Boston's Carl Yastrzemski in 1967. Cabrera, who also led the league with a .606 slugging percentage for the AL champion Tigers, switched from first base to third before the season to make way for Prince Fielder.