Carlos Pena of the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Dmitri Young of the Washington Nationals, who made it back to the majors as non-roster spring training invitees, were named the 2007 Comeback Player of the Year for their respective leagues on Tuesday.

Pena

Young

Pena set a number of Devil Rays single-season records in 2007 with 46 home runs, 121 runs batted in, 103 walks, a .411 on-base percentage and a .627 slugging percentage. He is only the 11th player to collect 100 walks, 45 home runs and 120 RBIs in a single season.

A 1998 first-round draft pick of the Texas Rangers, Peña was released by the New York Yankees last August after six years in the majors in which he appeared in games for the Rangers, Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers and Boston Red Sox. He was the first player in Major League history to hit more than 40 home runs the season after being released.

"Winning the comeback player of the year award is wonderful, but I really do hope that he gets some MVP votes also," Devil Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "He puts those numbers up with the Red Sox, the Yankees or whoever this year, they'd be clamoring for him to win the award right now. I definitely believes he deserves some kind of respect there also."

Young, who was let go by the Tigers during the 2006 season, earned his second career All-Star Game invitation with the Nationals in 2007. He hit a career-high .320, tied for eighth in the National League, and had 13 home runs, 74 RBIs and 38 doubles.

Young had not finished a season at .300 or higher since hitting .302 with 21 homers and 69 RBIs for the Cincinnati Reds in 2001. He batted .250 with seven homers and 23 RBIs in 48 games with the Detroit Tigers in 2006.

Young was out of baseball altogether at the end of last season when he was released by the Tigers with less than a month left in the regular season. It was just one part of Young's troublesome year, which included an assault charge, treatment for alcoholism, a divorce and hospitalization for diabetes

. The 30 team beat reporters from MLB.com selected the award winners. Previous winners include Jason Giambi and Ken Griffey Jr. in 2005 and and Jim Thome and Nomar Garciaparra in 2006.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.