San Francisco Giants shortstop Brandon Crawford, fresh off of a resurgent year, has finished fourth in the National League MVP race. Crawford, who had previously only received MVP votes in one other season (2016, when he finished 12th), earned four first-place votes.
He appeared on all 30 voters’ ballots (two voters from each NL market, with 10-vote ballots), picking up two second-place votes, one third-place vote, seven fourth-place votes, eight fifth-place votes, four sixth-place votes, three seventh-place votes, and one ninth-place vote.
All of that led to 213 points, almost enough to sneak into the top three, as the person directly ahead of him, Fernando Tatis Jr.