Mantle and Ripken are great guesses, but they both won their MVPs at their main primary positions.
Mantle won MVPs in '56 and '57 when he exclusively played CF, and in '62 when he played 94 of 117 games in CF. He played LF in 107 of 108 games in '64 and 1B to round out his career in '67 and '68.
Ripken played SS exclusively in '83 and '91 when he won his MVPs. It wasn't until '97 that his primary position became a 3B.
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