Editing Most valuable player (section)

===Baseball===

In [[Major League Baseball|MLB]], MVP voting takes place before the [[Major League Baseball postseason|postseason]], but the results are not announced until after the [[World Series]]. The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961.<ref name="ESPN">Gillette & Palmer, pp. 1764–1765</ref> The BBWAA does not offer a clear-cut definition of what "most valuable" means, instead leaving the judgment to the individual voters.<ref>{{cite news |last=Kepner |first=Tyler |title=Where Do You Find Value? Discussing the M.V.P. Criteria |date=September 4, 2011 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |page=SP3 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/sports/baseball/blue-jays-bautista-and-yankees-granderson-discuss-mvp-criteria.html?scp=1&sq=baseball%20mvp&st=cse |access-date=September 6, 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027083831/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/sports/baseball/blue-jays-bautista-and-yankees-granderson-discuss-mvp-criteria.html?scp=1&sq=baseball%20mvp&st=cse |archive-date=October 27, 2014 }}</ref><ref>For the definition that appears on the BBWAA ballot (including pitchers and designated hitters), go to [http://bbwaa.com/voting-faq/ Voting FAQ] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220829205416/https://bbwaa.com/voting-faq/ |date=2022-08-29 }} and '''scroll down'''. Baseball Writers' Association of America. Retrieved November 7, 2016.</ref>