{"id":280566,"date":"2025-11-13T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280566\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T14:45:07","slug":"the-opener-gm-meetings-mvp-additional-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/280566\/","title":{"rendered":"The Opener: GM Meetings, MVP, Additional Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don\u2019t forget to MLBTR\u2019s annual\u00a0Free Agent Prediction Contest<\/a>! Submissions close at 11pm central time this evening. Without further ado, here are three things we\u2019ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world today:<\/p>\n

1. GM Meetings wrapping up:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the final day of the GM Meetings, but there\u2019s still time for the league\u2019s 30 front office heads to add fuel to the rumor mill before they depart Las Vegas. While a handful of minor<\/a> transactions<\/a> have occurred, for the most part the GM Meetings have been about laying groundwork and providing hints on the direction some clubs could look to take this winter (such as the Pirates\u2019 potentially expanded payroll capacity<\/a>). We\u2019ve also seen comments from GMs downplaying their interest in dealing away speculative trade candidates (such as Dana Brown\u2019s comments<\/a> on Isaac Paredes<\/a>). A noteworthy trade or signing could still happen before the GM Meetings wrap up, but the focus is likely to be on movement that could occur in the coming days as qualifying offer decisions come due and the non-tender deadline approaches. Next month\u2019s Winter Meetings figure to have far more fireworks in terms of hot stove activity.<\/p>\n

2. 2025 MVPs to be crowned:<\/p>\n

As awards week wraps up, the winners of this year\u2019s MVP Awards in both leagues are set to be announced this evening. There\u2019s little intrigue in the NL, where Shohei Ohtani<\/a> is widely expected to cruise to his fourth career MVP trophy despite banner years from fellow finalists Kyle Schwarber<\/a> and Juan Soto<\/a>. In the AL, this year\u2019s season-long battle between Aaron Judge<\/a> and Cal Raleigh<\/a> will finally come to a close, with Jose Ramirez<\/a> joining that duo as a finalist following his second consecutive 30-homer, 40-steal season. Whether Judge\u2019s otherworldly offensive numbers will be enough to overcome Raleigh\u2019s 60 home runs and status as a quality defender at the game\u2019s most difficult defensive position will be revealed at 6pm CT.<\/p>\n

3. Additional awards to be announced:<\/p>\n

While the main event this evening is the Most Valuable Player announcement, that\u2019s not the only award set to be announced throughout the day. The 2025 All-MLB team will be announced today at the GM Meetings, while winners of the Comeback Players of the Year, Relievers of the Year, Outstanding DH, Executive of the Year, and Hank Aaron<\/a> Awards will also be revealed as well. All of those awards will have their results announced on MLB Network\u2019s awards show this evening, which runs from 8pm to 10pm CT. As noted by MLB.com<\/a>, more than 70 current and former MLB players are expected to be in attendance for the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t forget to MLBTR\u2019s annual\u00a0Free Agent Prediction Contest! Submissions close at 11pm central time this evening. Without further…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-280566","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\/280566","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=280566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}