Los Angeles Dodgers center fielder Andy Pages earned a single sixth place NL MVP vote on this year’s ballot, marking the first time in his career he’s earned a vote.
He is the only player on the Dodgers other than Shohei Ohtani to have earned a vote.
How Good Was Andy Pages in 2026?
Pages had the best year of his career thus far with the Dodgers in 2026, posting a career-best 6.0 bWAR—good for 15th in MLB—through 134 games while hitting 23 homers and driving in 85 RBIs with a .811 OPS.
His best stretch of games came in April and May, when he hit 12 of his 23 homers and drove in more than half of his RBIs on the season.
He also played stellar defense in center field, posting a plus-13 fielding run value with 10 outs above average, both ranking in the top 5% of the league.
For his efforts during the first half of the regular season, Pages earned his first All-Star selection.
Pages’ numbers were solid through 134 games, but a hand fracture after being hit by a pitch kept him on the sidelines for most of the final month of the season, potentially reducing the number of votes he could have acquired.
The third-year center fielder was also a Gold Glove finalist and is sure to be considered for the NL Silver Slugger award for center field, though the Chicago Cubs’ Pete Crow Armstrong took home the Gold Glove and is likely to win the Silver Slugger as well alongside his MVP season.
Could Andy Pages Win an MVP in the Future?
While Pages’ best quality is his glove, he has shown over the past two seasons he has plenty of offensive upside as well.
Players like Pages who rack up WAR tend to do well in voting for major awards, and Crow-Armstrong showed exactly that this season. Crow-Armstrong won the MVP award unanimously after hitting 45 homers with a .943 OPS on the season, but his numbers from last year were fairly similar to Pages’ this year.
If Pages can take a huge jump forward, as Crow-Armstrong did, it would be difficult to rule out his ability to bring home a major award in the future, especially seeing as he’s just 25 years of age.
