Here's a snapshot of the BBWAA awards after the three finalists in each category were announced on Monday night.
The question here: Which of the deep group of strong candidates were going to place out of the top three? Baseball-Reference.com had five AL position players worth 7.9 WAR or higher -- the first time that's happened in the AL since 1912 (the NL had six such players in 2004 and five in 1964).
Here's the thing: J.D. Martinez wasn't one of those five (Matt Chapman and Francisco Lindor were the other two along with the three MVP finalists), but it's a bit of a surprise that he wasn't one of the three finalists after hitting .