2024 Kevin Mitchell Award: Aaron Judge

Aaron Judge became the four player in DMBL history to win back-to-back Kevin Mitchell Awards, doing it in near unanimous fashion.

The Sardine City slugger was the only player to appear on all 10 ballot cast by league owners and was awarded 9 1st place votes, finishing with 95 points. Last year, he won the award with 75 points, winning on 7 of 9 1st place ballots.

Shohei Ohtani of Poovey Farms won the other 1st place vote -- Judge received a 3rd place vote on that ballot, behind Tucson's Jose Altuve -- and finished 2nd with 40 points, just ahead of Tucson 1B Matt Olson with 37 points.

	KEVIN MITCHELL AWARD	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	Pts
1	Aaron Judge, SCS	9		1				95
2	Shohei Ohtani, POO	1	2	2	2			40
3	Matt Olson, TUC		3	2	2			37
4	Ronald Acuna, Jr., EP		1	1	1		1	16
5	Bo Bichette, PHI		1	1			1	13
-	Corey Seager, SCS		1		1	1	1	13
7	Luis Arraez, DD			1	2			11
-	Nolan Jones, PHI-LIV*			1	1	1	1	11
9	Jose Altuve, TUC		1			1		9
10	Yainer Diaz, SF*		1					7
11	Yandy Diaz, ERI				1	1	1	6
12	Brent Rooker, BR			1				5
-	Freddie Freeman, POO					2	1	5
14	JP Crawford, NWK					1	1	3
-	Matt McLain, EP*					1	1	3
16	Julio Rodriguez, HPG					1		2
-	Kyle Tucker, ALN					1		2
17	Jose Ramirez, BR						1	1
-	Zack Gelof, ARK*						1	1

* Denotes rookie

After the top 3, the field was a distant and scattered bunch with 17 players in all receiving votes. Points are awarded on a 10-7-5-3-2-1 basis, with 10 points for a 1st place vote, 7 for a 2nd place vote, and so on. Seven different players received 2nd place votes, led by Olson with 3, followed by Ohtani with 2.

Judge, who ranked 1st or 2nd in most major batting categories this year, is the first back-to-back winner since Allentown's Mike Trout did it in 2018-2019. Philly's Albert Pujols (2009-2010) and Barry Bonds (2004-2005) of Arkansas are the only other players to have won two consecutive awards. No one has won 3 Mitchells in a row but Bonds won his 3 during a span of four years. Only Bonds and Trout have won it 3 times. Bonds also won in 2002 and Trout won it in his rookie year of 2013.

Three rookies received support for the Mitch: Nolan Jones, San Francisco's Yainer Diaz, El Paso's Matt McClain, and Zack Gelof of Arkansas.