Question: The MLB MVP award is given out after a competition where a team has played the most games. What is the longest win streak in the history of league that team plays for?

The New York Yankees are an American professional baseball team based in the New York City borough of the Bronx. They are one of two major league clubs based in New York City; the other club is the National League (NL)'s New York Mets. In the season, the club began play in the AL as the Baltimore Orioles (no relation to the modern Baltimore Orioles). Frank Farrell and Bill Devery purchased the franchise that had ceased operations and moved it to New York City, renaming the club the New York Highlanders. The Highlanders were officially renamed the Yankees in . The Yankees compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) East division. <SEP> The second - longest winning streak is 22 by the 2017 Cleveland Indians, which is still ongoing and the American League record. The Chicago Cubs franchise has won 21 games twice, once in 1880 when they were the Chicago White Stockings and once in 1935. The 1916 New York Giants hold the record for the longest unbeaten streak in MLB history at 26 wins. <SEP> The BBWAA began by polling three writers in each league city in 1938, reducing that number to two per league city in 1961. The BBWAA does not offer a clear - cut definition of what ``most valuable ''means, instead leaving the judgment to the individual voters. MVP voting takes place before the postseason, but the results are not announced until after the World Series. <SEP> in major league baseball (mlb), the wild - card teams are the two teams in each of the two leagues (american and national) that have qualified for the postseason despite failing to win their division. both teams in each league possess the two best winning percentages in their respective league after the three division winners. the wild card was first instituted in mlb in 1994, with one wild - card team per league advancing to the division series in the postseason to face a division winner. in 2012, the system was modified to add a second wild - card team per league and pit each league's wild - card teams against each other in a play - in game -- the mlb wild - card game -- the winner of which would then advance to the division series and play the team with the best record. this system ensures that the team with the second - best record in each league, after the three division winners and the team with the first - best record in the league that is a non-division winner, will also get a postseason berth, even if it is n't a division champion. <SEP> ichiro suzuki / ˈiːtʃɪroʊ suːˈzuːki / (鈴木一朗, suzuki ichirō, born october 22, 1973), often referred to mononymously as ichiro (イチロー, ichirō), is a japanese professional baseball outfielder. with 27 seasons combined in top - level professional leagues, he spent the bulk of his career with two teams: nine seasons with the orix blue wave of nippon professional baseball (npb) in japan, where he began his career, and 12 with the seattle mariners of major league baseball (mlb) in the united states. after playing for the mariners, he played two and a half seasons in mlb with the new york yankees before signing with the miami marlins. ichiro played three seasons with the marlins before returning to the mariners in 2018. ichiro established a number of batting records, including mlb's single - season record for hits with 262. he achieved 10 consecutive 200 - hit seasons, the longest streak by any player in history. between his major league career in both japan and the united states, ichiro has the most hits by any player in top - tier professional leagues. he also has recorded the most hits of all japanese born players in mlb history. <SEP> In the National League, the St. Louis Cardinals have appeared in 19 and won 11, the New York / San Francisco Giants have played in 20 and won 8, the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers have appeared in 19 and won 6, and the Cincinnati Reds have appeared in 9 and won 5. In the American League, the New York Yankees have played in 40 World Series and won 27, the Philadelphia / Kansas City / Oakland Athletics have played in 14 and won 9, and the Boston Red Sox have played in 12 and won 8, including the first World Series.