My 2026 MLS awards ballot
Here's my picks for the best of MLS in 2026.
I grew up as a baseball fan, and so to me, voting for awards feels like a spectacularly huge responsibility.
Baseball probably lionizes its writers more than any other sport, with the possible exceptions of golf, cricket, and college football, and you can see that from the importance of the Baseball Writers Association of America, aka the BBWAA. The BBWAA is more than 100 years old, and the writers are responsible for voting on both postseason awards and Hall of Fame members.
In MLS, media votes (we don't have the equivalent of the BBWAA) count for just a third of the voting for postseason awards. The other two-thirds come from active MLS players, and MLS club technical staff. So, at least compared to baseball, our votes matter less.
Which is not to say that I took this process anything less than seriously. Here's who I voted for, and how I got there:
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