It’s less common for MVPs to come from non-playoff teams in recent years, in part because a greater percentage of teams make the postseason. Since the wild card was introduced in 1995, the AL MVP has come from a non-playoff team three times, and only twice since 2007, both times the Angels’ Mike Trout. The NL MVP has come from a team that failed to qualify for the postseason seven times during that span, most recently by Giancarlo Stanton, then of the Miami Marlins, in 2017.
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