2026 MVBrewers #1: William Contreras

We’re kicking off our 2026 MVBrewers rankings, and the voting for this year’s No. 1 player was perhaps the closest we’ve ever seen: With 74 total votes in our poll on The Feed, catcher William Contreras edged second baseman Brice Turang with 37.9% of the vote (28 votes) compared to 35.1% (26 votes). Jacob Misiorowski garnered 18.9% (14 votes), while Jackson Chourio, Jake Bauers, and write-in candidate Aaron Ashby each picked up two votes (shoutout to @Berhaltersburner for the recognition).

While Turang is a top-three MVP finisher in the league (likely behind Pete Crow-Armstrong and Shohei Ohtani), that’s a regular-season-only award, whereas we don’t have those restrictions here, and perhaps…