Andy Pages picked up the first MVP vote of his career this year, landing a single sixth-place nod on the NL ballot and becoming the only Dodgers player besides Shohei Ohtani to get one.
It was a fitting little reward for a season that pushed Pages into a new tier. The Dodgers center fielder put together the best year of his career in 2026, finishing with a 6.0 bWAR that ranked 15th in MLB over 134 games. At the plate, he hit 23 home runs, drove in 85 runs and posted an .811 OPS.
Pages did a lot of his damage early. In April and May, he launched 12 of those 23 homers and knocked in more than half of his RBIs for the season. That hot start helped earn him his first All-Star selection for what he did in the first half.
He wasn’t just producing with the bat, either. Pages turned in elite work in center field, finishing with a plus-13 fielding run value and 10 outs above average, both marks that landed in the top 5% of the league.
A hand fracture changed the finish line. After getting hit by a pitch, Pages was sidelined for most of the final month, and that absence may have cost him a few more votes than he otherwise would have collected.
Even with that missed time, the season was strong enough to put him in award conversations beyond MVP. He was a Gold Glove finalist and is expected to be in the mix for the NL Silver Slugger at center field, though the Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow Armstrong won the Gold Glove and is also the favorite for the Silver Slugger after his MVP season.
Pages’ profile is built on defense, but the offense has started to catch up. Over the last two seasons, he’s shown real upside with the bat, and that combination matters when award voters start handing out hardware.
Crow-Armstrong proved the point this year, winning the MVP unanimously after blasting 45 homers with a .943 OPS. The source notes that his numbers from last season were fairly similar to Pages’ this year.
That’s why Pages’ age matters here. At 25, he’s still young enough to make a big leap, and if he does, a future major award wouldn’t be out of the question.
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