The Major Baseball League (MBL) plans to move the Houston team from the National Conference (NC) to the American Conference (AC) in 2013. That will even the number of teams in each conference at 15. In recent years there have been 14 AC teams and 16 NC teams.
Obviously, that means that it was more difficult for an NC player to win an award or to lead the conference in a stat. Gee, maybe that's why the Mets have never had an MVP since inception in 1962. That's part of the reason that the only Met in the Hall of Fame is pitcher Tom Seaver who won the Cy Young award three times.
Of the 16 teams in 1960 only Cleveland has not had an MVP since; last Cleveland MVP: 1953 Al Rosen.
All but four of the other 13 expansion teams have had at least one MVP and three teams started at least 31 years after the Mets:
- Miami (1993) 2 WS
- Arizona (1998) one WS
- Tampa Bay (1998) one pennant
- Montreal Expos (1969)/Washington Nationals since 2005.
Angels (1961):
2004 Vladimir Guerrero
1979 Don Baylor
Texas (Washington Senators 1961-1971) (1961):
2010 Josh Hamilton
2005 Alex Rodriguez
1999 Ivan Rodriguez
1998 Juan Gonzalez
1996 Juan Gonzalez
1974 Jeff Burroughs
Houston (1961):
1994 Jeff Bagwell
Royals (1969):
1980 George Brett
Brewers (Seattle Pilots 1969) (1969):
2011 Ryan Braun
1982 Robin Yount
1981 Rollie Fingers
San Diego (1969):
1996 Ken Caminiti
Toronto (1977):
1987 George Bell
Seattle Mariners (1977):
1997 Ken Griffey, Jr.
2001 Ichiro Suzuki
Colorado (1993):
1997 Larry Walker
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