Josh Donaldson wins AL MVP award after fantastic first season with Blue Jays

Posted by Wayne G. Barber  Photos property of Wayne G. Barber

  I was very lucky to sit with my family members and Larry Luchino at a Red Sox/ Blue Jays baseball game this year and could almost touch the players. Josh Donaldson's dad secured two game balls for our Little Leaguers and I knew the photos would be good ones and contain a Big Papi and a American League MVP.

Josh Donaldson's first year with the Toronto Blue Jays will go down in history. After hitting 41 homers, driving in 123 runs and leading the Jays to the AL East title, Donaldson was named the AL MVP on Thursday.
   Baseball Writers Association of America, besting the reigning AL MVP Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels, who got seven first-place votes. Lorenzo Cain of the Kansas City Royals finished third. There was some debate whether Trout could repeat, but in the end, voters preferred Donaldson in rather convincing fashion. Perhaps surprisingly so.
Donaldson received 23 of 30 first-place votes from the

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Larry Luchino