2023 MLB Review Quizzes

The 2023 season opened a new chapter of award-season fireworks and October surprise. In the American League, Shohei Ohtani authored a unanimous MVP year for the Angels — 44 home runs, a .304 average, and enough two-way dominance to make every box score feel historic. Across the National League, Ronald Acuña Jr. rewrote the record book with a unanimous MVP campaign built on 41 homers and 73 steals, the first 40–70 season in baseball history, while Atlanta piled up 104 wins and Matt Olson led the league with 54 home runs and 139 RBIs.

Pitching hardware told its own story. Gerrit Cole finally claimed a unanimous American League Cy Young for the Yankees with a 2.63 ERA, 15–4 record, and 209 innings of command. Blake Snell answered in the National League for San Diego, posting a major-league-best 2.25 ERA and his second career Cy Young after earlier success in the American League. League leaderboards were equally loud: Yandy Díaz took the AL batting title at .330, Esteury Ruiz swiped 67 bags, Luis Arraez hit .354 for Miami, and Spencer Strider struck out 281 National League hitters.

Midsummer and the rookies of the year set the table for October. The National League snapped a long All-Star drought with a 3–2 win at Seattle’s T-Mobile Park, as Rockies catcher Elias Díaz earned MVP with a pinch-hit, go-ahead homer. Unanimous Rookie of the Year winners Gunnar Henderson (Orioles) and Corbin Carroll (Diamondbacks) — the first 25–50 rookie — arrived as franchise cornerstones and, in Carroll’s case, as October catalysts.

The postseason belonged to the Texas Rangers. After finishing second in the AL West, Texas outlasted Houston in a seven-game ALCS (Adolis García earned series MVP), while Arizona — a National League Wild Card — stunned its way past Philadelphia with Ketel Marte as NLCS MVP. In the World Series, Bruce Bochy’s Rangers beat the Diamondbacks in five games for the first championship in franchise history. Corey Seager took World Series MVP, and a 5–0 clincher at Chase Field closed a season defined by historic individual brilliance and a long-awaited Texas parade.