{"id":323637,"date":"2025-12-03T23:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323637\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:08:10","slug":"resurgent-springer-headlines-blue-jays-2025-end-of-year-award-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/323637\/","title":{"rendered":"Resurgent Springer headlines Blue Jays’ 2025 end-of-year award winners"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2013 George Springer<\/a>\u2019s performance in driving his team to a worst-to-first rebound earned him Blue Jays player of the year and most improved player honours in voting by the Toronto chapter of the Baseball Writers\u2019 Association of America, announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Kevin Gausman<\/a> won pitcher of the year, Braydon Fisher<\/a> beat out post-season sensation Trey Yesavage (voting is based on regular-season performance) for rookie of the year, while Ernie Clement<\/a> received the John Cerutti Award, given annually \u201cto a person associated with the day-to-day workings of Blue Jays baseball who displays goodwill, co-operation and character, as exemplified by\u201d the late left-hander.<\/p>\n

Springer was a near-unanimous pick for player of the year, garnering 19 of 20 first-place votes (Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/a> received the other), after batting .309\/.399\/.560 with 32 homers and 84 RBIs while delivering a season worth 5.2 wins, as calculated by FanGraphs.<\/p>\n

The rebound from a difficult 2024, when he batted .220\/.303\/.371, also earned him the most improved honour, in a narrow win over Clement. Springer received eight first-place votes and totalled 31 points, one more than Clement, who received seven first-place votes (Addison Barger, with four, and Nathan Lukes, with one, also got first-place votes).<\/p>\n

Gausman won pitcher of the year honours for the second time in three seasons after posting a 3.59 ERA in 193 innings across 32 starts, with 189 strikeouts and a 1.062 WHIP. He also received 19 first-place votes, with the other going to lefty Eric Lauer, who finished third, behind runner-up Chris Bassitt.<\/p>\n

Fisher logged 50 innings in 52 outings with 62 strikeouts, a 2.70 ERA and a 1.020 WHIP, providing a vital contribution to the Blue Jays bullpen. He received 11 first-place votes and 49 points to edge out Yesavage, who received eight first-place votes and 42 points and would have likely won the award if playoff performance were factored into the voting. Mason Fluharty received the other first-place vote.<\/p>\n

Clement batted .277\/.313\/.398 in 157 games during a breakout year and became one of the symbols of the 2025 team with his tenacious play, determination and positive disposition, making him a deserving recipient of the Cerutti prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2013 George Springer\u2019s performance in driving his team to a worst-to-first rebound earned him Blue Jays player…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-323637","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\/323637","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=323637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}