{"id":263436,"date":"2025-11-05T13:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263436\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T13:50:11","slug":"picking-every-mlb-teams-mvp-cy-young-and-rookie-of-the-year-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/263436\/","title":{"rendered":"Picking Every MLB Team&#8217;s MVP, Cy Young and Rookie of the Year in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">MVP: 1B Nick Kurtz<br \/>Cy Young: SP Jeffrey Springs<br \/>ROY: 1B Nick Kurtz<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Athletics have assembled a fantastic young core offensively, and Nick Kurtz immediately becomes the crown jewel after posting a ridiculous 173 OPS  with 36 home runs in 117 games. The <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/nick-kurtz-701762?stats=statcast-r-hitting-mlb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">batted-ball metrics<\/a> suggest he is the real deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Flashy signing Luis Severino would have been the Athletics&#8217; best pitcher if all his starts came on the road (14 GS, 3.02 ERA, 80.1 IP), but he was absolutely shelled at home (15 GS, 6.01 ERA, 82.1 IP). Instead, fellow offseason addition Jeffrey Springs (11-11, 4.11 ERA, 138 K, 171.0 IP) gets the nod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MVP: 1B Nick KurtzCy Young: SP Jeffrey SpringsROY: 1B Nick Kurtz The Athletics have assembled a fantastic young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-263436","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}