Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani wins his fourth unanimous MVP award originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Dodgers’ two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani won his fourth unanimous MVP award Thursday after a standout season that saw his successful return to the mound and a second consecutive World Series title for Los Angeles.
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Ohtani has back-to-back National League MVP awards. He was named AL MVP twice during his time with the Angels.
Other top contenders in the NL this season included the Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber and Mets’ Juan Soto.
Ohtani, an MVP winner in four of the last five seasons, also collected the 2025 National League Silver Slugger Award, his third straight, for designated hitters.
Coming off his landmark 50-50 season, Ohtani hit a career-high and Dodgers franchise-record 55 home runs to finish second in the NL. He batted .282 with 102 RBIs and paced everyone in several offensive categories.
Ohtani led the league in slugging (.622), OPS (1.014), OPS+ (179) and total bases (380). His MLB-high 146 runs scored were the most by any Dodger since the beginning of baseball’s modern era in 1900, according to MLB.com.
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Barry Bonds holds the record for the most MLB MVP awards with seven. Bonds won in 1990, 1992, 1993, and four consecutive times from 2001–2004.
The MVP awards were announced Thursday, a day after the Pirates’ Paul Skenes won the National League Cy Young Award in a unanimous vote. Detroit Tigers ace Tarik Skubal won his second straight American League Cy Young Award.
World Series MVP Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the Los Angeles Dodgers finished third in Cy Young Award voting.
