Naquin, Kluber vying for Esurance MLB Awards

Voting is underway through Nov. 11 at MLB.com/awards to help decide the annual Esurance MLB Awards, recognizing 20 suspenseful categories and starting right now with Best Major Leaguer, Best Hitter, Best Pitcher and Best Rookie.

The Esurance MLB Awards annually honor Major League Baseball’s greatest achievements as part of an industry-wide balloting process that includes five groups, each of which accounts for 20 percent of the overall vote: media, front-office personnel, retired MLB players, Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) voters, and fans like you at MLB.com.

Baseball already has the most prestigious awards season in professional sports, and this is your chance to have a big say in some of that hardware distribution. You have watched the action since Spring Training, you have shared all those social media posts, you caught the foul balls, you played highlight after highlight and voted for All-Stars. Now your moment has arrived.

Here is a look at your first four categories, starting with the biggest prize:

Best Major Leaguer

The great Willie Mays once said, “I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw.” Well, it’s time for you to think hard about who was the “best baseball player” in 2016, and you’d better bring that same kind of Willie Mays confidence to your own vote here because these are your five amazing choices, with WAR in parentheses.

Astros second baseman Jose Altuve (7.7), Red Sox right fielder Mookie Betts (8.4), Cubs third baseman Kris Bryant (7.1), Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson (6.9) and Angels center fielder …

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