Juan Soto gets the bronze for the second straight year, as he finished third in the 2025 NL MVP voting announced Thursday night – the same place he finished in the AL in 2024 as a Yankee.
The Mets slugger was one of just three players named on all 30 ballots, behind unanimous winner Shohei Ohtani and Kyle Schwarber, who got 23 of the 30 second-place votes to easily finish second.
Soto got four of the other seven second-place votes, 15 third-place votes, nine fourth-place votes and two fifth-place nods to finish third with 231 points, well ahead of Arizona’s Geraldo Perdomo, who got the remaining third-place votes.
Two other Mets were among the other 20 players receiving votes, with Francisco Lindor finishing 10th (with a high of one fourth-place vote on 18 total ballots) and Pete Alonso placing 11th (with a high of one third-place vote on 10 total ballots).
And, while we would say Soto finishing top 3 in MVP voting for the second year in a row in a different league, and third time in five years total, is an impressive, rare feat - note that Ohtani has won three straight MVP Awards, including the 2023 AL award, in unanimous fashion, and was also the AL winner in 2021 when then-National Soto finished second in the NL.