Shohei Ohtani missed out on consecutive Players Choice Awards on Friday, with New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge claiming the pair of accolades won last year by the Los Angeles Angels two-way star.

Judge won the Player of the Year and Outstanding American League Player awards presented by the MLB Players Association after hitting an AL record 62 home runs, eclipsing Roger Maris' 61 from 1961, and also leading the league with 131 RBIs.

Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees. (Getty/Kyodo)

The awards are handed out ahead of the Nov. 17 announcement of Major League Baseball's MVP awards, in which the winner of each league is determined through a vote by eligible Baseball Writers' Association of America members.

Ohtani won AL MVP last year but is second-favorite to Judge among bookmakers for this year's honor.

The 28-year-old Ohtani this season qualified for both pitching and batting leaderboards for the first time after becoming the first player since Babe Ruth in 1918 to have at least 10 wins as a pitcher and 10 home runs as a hitter in the same season.

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels. (Getty/Kyodo)

Ohtani earned his MLB career-high 15 wins with a 2.33 ERA on the mound, while batting .273, hitting 34 home runs and logging 95 RBIs at the plate.


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