{"id":282114,"date":"2025-11-14T07:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282114\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T07:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:48:12","slug":"mlb-announces-all-mlb-teams-comeback-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/282114\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Announces All-MLB Teams, Comeback Players"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main event of Thursday\u2019s award revelations came with the BBWAA\u2019s announcement that Shohei Ohtani<\/a> and\u00a0Aaron Judge<\/a> repeated as MVP winners. Major League Baseball also conducted its award ceremony tonight, revealing a handful of honors that are not decided by the writers.<\/p>\n

Most notably, the league named\u00a0Jacob deGrom<\/a> and\u00a0Ronald Acu\u00f1a Jr.<\/a> the respective Comeback Players of the Year. deGrom\u2019s comeback from Tommy John surgery technically occurred at the end of the 2024 season. The two-time Cy Young winner made three late-season appearances last year. He took the ball 30 times this past season and worked to a 2.97 earned run average with 185 strikeouts across 172 2\/3 innings. He earned his fifth All-Star nod and finished eighth in AL Cy Young balloting in his age-37 season.<\/p>\n

Acu\u00f1a bounced back from the second ACL tear of his career. The 2023 NL MVP had suffered the season-ending left knee injury on May 26, 2024. He made it back almost one year to the day later. The Braves activated Acu\u00f1a from the injured list on May 23. He\u2019d return to superstar form, hitting .290\/.417\/.518 with 21 homers in 95 games. Acu\u00f1a went back on the injured list around the trade deadline with right Achilles tightness. He only missed a couple weeks and came back to hit .268\/.402\/.437 down the stretch despite an injury-riddled Atlanta team being well out of contention. It\u2019s the second straight season in which a Brave was named NL Comeback Player of the Year. Chris Sale<\/a> received that honor last season.<\/p>\n

MLB announced a few other honors. Ohtani and Judge repeated as the respective Hank Aaron Award winners as the league\u2019s best hitters. Ohtani yet again won the Edgar Martinez Award as MLB\u2019s best designated hitter.\u00a0Aroldis Chapman<\/a> and\u00a0Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a> won the respective Reliever of the Year honors. D\u00edaz is free agency\u2019s top reliever coming off a 1.63 ERA across 62 appearances. Chapman turned in a 1.17 ERA over 61 1\/3 frames in what is arguably the best season of his fantastic career. He re-signed with the Red Sox on a $13MM deal in August. The BBWAA will reintroduce<\/a> its own Reliever of the Year Award in 2026.<\/p>\n

Brewers president of baseball operations Matt Arnold was named Executive of the Year for the second consecutive season. Milwaukee won an MLB-best 97 games and advanced to the NL Championship Series despite having an Opening Day payroll around $115MM. That was the eighth-lowest mark in the majors.<\/p>\n

MLB also announced its 1st and 2nd teams. These are not league specific and are designed to honor the best players at each position. Those are as follows:<\/p>\n

1st Team<\/p>\n

Catcher: Cal Raleigh<\/a>, Mariners
\nFirst Base:\u00a0Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a>, Blue Jays
\nSecond Base:\u00a0Ketel Marte<\/a>, Diamondbacks
\nThird Base:\u00a0Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez<\/a>, Guardians
\nShortstop:\u00a0Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a>, Royals
\nOutfield:\u00a0Aaron Judge<\/a>, Yankees
\nOutfield:\u00a0Julio Rodr\u00edguez<\/a>, Mariners
\nOutfield:\u00a0Juan Soto<\/a>, Mets
\nDesignated hitter:\u00a0Shohei Ohtani<\/a>, Dodgers
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Tarik Skubal<\/a>, Tigers
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Paul Skenes<\/a>, Pirates
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Yoshinobu Yamamoto<\/a>, Dodgers
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Garrett Crochet<\/a>, Red Sox
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Max Fried<\/a>, Yankees
\nRelief Pitcher:\u00a0Aroldis Chapman<\/a>, Red Sox
\nRelief Pitcher:\u00a0Jhoan Duran<\/a>, Twins\/Phillies<\/p>\n

2nd Team<\/p>\n

Catcher:\u00a0Will Smith<\/a>, Dodgers
\nFirst Base:\u00a0Nick Kurtz<\/a>, Athletics
\nSecond Base:\u00a0Brice Turang<\/a>, Brewers
\nThird Base:\u00a0Junior Caminero<\/a>, Rays
\nShortstop:\u00a0Bo Bichette<\/a>, Blue Jays
\nOutfield:\u00a0Cody Bellinger<\/a>, Yankees
\nOutfield:\u00a0Corbin Carroll<\/a>, Diamondbacks
\nOutfield:\u00a0Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a>, Cubs
\nDesignated Hitter:\u00a0Kyle Schwarber<\/a>, Phillies
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Cristopher S\u00e1nchez<\/a>, Phillies
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Hunter Brown<\/a>, Astros
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Zack Wheeler<\/a>, Phillies
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Freddy Peralta<\/a>, Brewers
\nStarting Pitcher:\u00a0Bryan Woo<\/a>, Mariners
\nRelief Pitcher:\u00a0Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a>, Mets
\nRelief Pitcher:\u00a0Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz<\/a>, Mariners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The main event of Thursday\u2019s award revelations came with the BBWAA\u2019s announcement that Shohei Ohtani and\u00a0Aaron Judge repeated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[15290,49,48,484,10625,128328,462,9108,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-282114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aroldis-chapman","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-edwin-diaz","12":"tag-jacob-degrom","13":"tag-matt-arnold","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-ronald-acuna","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282114","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=282114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}