It was a very strange baseball season, but one thing that didn’t change was the excellence of White Sox first baseman José Abreu. From start to finish of the abbreviated, 60-game season, the big slugger produced and because of that was named the American League MVP by the Baseball Writers Association of America. Abreu finished with 374 total points, beating out Cleveland’s José Ramírez. Abreu became the fourth White Sox MVP, joining Nellie Fox (1959), Dick Allen (1972) and Frank Thomas (1993-94)

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