"Major League Baseball sensation Ohtani Shohei has won this year's Most Valuable Player Award in the American League.",

"He's now the first player in MLB history to claim the title twice by unanimous vote.",

"MVP winners are chosen in each league through voting by the 30 members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.",

"MLB made the announcement Thursday.",

"In his sixth MLB season, the Japanese two-way star",

"hit 44 home runs and became the first Asian player to clinch the American League's home run title.",

"He also earned 10 wins as a pitcher.",

"He became the first player in MLB history",

"to hit double-digit home runs as a batter and record 10 or more wins as a pitcher in back-to-back seasons.",

"Ohtani missed games for nearly a month toward the end of the season due to an injury in his right elbow and a strained right oblique muscle.",

"But his overwhelming performances in both pitching and hitting assured he would make MLB history."