Who are the teams with the longest award droughts?

Jeff Burroughs won Texas’ first MVP in 1974, followed by Juan Gonzalez in 1996 and 1998, Ivan Rodriguez in 1999, Alex Rodriguez in 2003, and Josh Hamilton in 2010. Pitching, even in the best of times for the Rangers, has never really been their strength, with one exception being 2019, when Lance Lynn was fifth in the Cy Young vote and Mike Minor ninth in a race that came down to two pitchers from across the state, with Verlander edging Gerrit Cole. Fergie Jenkins had 10 first-place votes in 1974, when he finished fifth to Burroughs in the MVP race, but Catfish Hunter of the A’s won the Cy with extremely similar numbers. Hunter, oddly enough, finished right behind Jenkins in sixth place in the MVP vote that year.