Shohei Ohtani has been voted the majors' best designated hitter for the second consecutive season.

The Los Angeles Angels' two-way slugger won the Edgar Martinez Outstanding Designated Hitter Award on Monday, beating out Houston's Yordan Alvarez as the top player at the position in 2022.

Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander and St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols won baseball's Comeback Player of the Year awards Tuesday night.

St. Louis Cardinals slugger Paul Goldschmidt has been voted the National League MVP, beating out teammate Nolan Arenado and San Diego Padres third baseman Manny Machado.

Goldschmidt, 35, took home his first MVP honor, receiving 22 of 30 first-place votes and eight seconds for 380 points from a Baseball Writers' Association of America panel.

Aaron Judge etched a permanent spot in the memories of baseball fans when he set the American League single-season home run record and chased a Triple Crown down the stretch for the New York Yankees. Now, he has a final accolade to top his historic 2022.

The slugger was crowned AL Most Valuable Player on Thursday night, beating out Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels and Yordan Alvarez of the Houston Astros. He is the first outfielder for the Yankees to win the award since Mickey Mantle in 1962.

It wasn't a question of whether Sandy Alcantara would win the Cy Young Award, just one of whether he would become the first unanimous winner in the National League since Clayton Kershaw in 2014.

Indeed, the Miami Marlins' 27-year-old right-hander swept all 30 first-place votes to beat out Braves lefty Max Fried and Dodgers southpaw Julio Urias to become the first Cy Young winner in Marlins history.

Houston Astros pitcher Justin Verlander won his third American League Cy Young Award on Thursday, joining a distinguished club with fewer than a dozen members throughout baseball history.

He did so unanimously. And he did so under unprecedented circumstances -- as a 39-year-old coming off Tommy John surgery, which kept him off a major league mound for most of the past two years.

Cleveland Guardians manager Terry Francona was named American League Manager of the Year on Tuesday for the third time in his career.

Francona received 17 first-place votes for 112 points. Baltimore Orioles skipper Brandon Hyde came in second and Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais finished third. 

The New York Mets' Buck Showalter was named National League Manager of the Year on Tuesday night, becoming just the third person to take the prize four times and the first to do it with four different franchises.

Showalter is the first Mets manager to win the award, which has been presented since 1983. He received eight of 30 first-place votes, 10 second-place votes and 77 total points, edging Los Angeles Dodgers skipper Dave Roberts, who finished second. 

The Braves' Michael Harris beat out teammate Spencer Strider to win National League Rookie of the Year honors on Monday, collecting 22 first-place votes and 134 points to Strider's eight first-place votes and 103 points. St. Louis Cardinals utility player Brendan Donovan finished third in the voting.

The Mariners Julio Rodriguez was named the American League Rookie of the Year in near-unanimous fashion on Monday, a fitting cap to a stirring campaign that saw him dazzle at the Home Run Derby, perform among the sport's best players and propel the Mariners to a long-awaited trip to the playoffs.