This year's Hank Aaron Award winners are Jose Abreu of the White Sox in the American League and Freddie Freeman of the Braves in the National League. The Hank Aaron Award was established by Major League Baseball in 1999 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's all-time home run record. The award is given annually to the most outstanding offensive player in each league.

Abreu and Freeman each took home their respective league's Most Valuable Player honors in 2020 as well. It's just the fourth time since the award's inception and the first time since 2017 (Jose Altuve and Giancarlo Stanton) that both MVPs won the Hank Aaron Award. Both Abreu and Freeman are first-time winners of the Hank Aaron Award.

Abreu, 33, played in all 60 regular-season games during the abbreviated 2020 season and over that span authored a slash line of .317/.370/.617 (166 OPS+) with 19 home runs and an AL-leading 76 hits. He also led the league in RBI (60) and total bases (148). 

Freeman, 31, hit .341/.462/.640 (186 OPS+) with 23 doubles, a triple, 13 home runs, 53 RBI, 51 runs, two steals and 2.9 WAR during the abbreviated 2020 campaign. He also led the league in runs scored (51) and ranked second in the NL for batting average, on-base percentage, slugging percentage, OPS (1.102) and wRC+ (187). Freeman joins Andruw Jones (2005) as the only Braves players to take home the honors.