{"id":23887,"date":"2025-11-04T02:23:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23887\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T02:23:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T02:23:16","slug":"philadelphia-phillies-kyle-schwarber-cristopher-sanchez-named-finalists-for-nl-mvp-and-cy-young-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/23887\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies’ Kyle Schwarber, Cristopher S\u00e1nchez named finalists for NL MVP and Cy Young Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Philadelphia Phillies’ 2025 season<\/a> ended in disappointment with another early playoff exit to the eventual World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a>, but some members of the team could still come away with some hardware.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Monday night, designated hitter Kyle Schwarber was named a finalist for the National League MVP Award, while Cristopher S\u00e1nchez was named a finalist for the NL Cy Young Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Phillies manager Rob Thomson was also named a finalist for the NL Manager of the Year Award.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schwarber named finalist for NL MVP<\/p>\n

For the first time in his career, Schwarber was named a finalist for the NL MVP Award after leading the Phillies to a second straight NL East title<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schwarber was named an All-Star for the third time in his career in 2025 and hit a career-high 56 homers<\/a>, which led the NL. His 132 RBIs led all of baseball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schwarber slashed .240.\/365\/.563 on the season with a .928 OPS, which tied his previous career-high in 2021. He’s received MVP votes every season he’s been in Philadelphia.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schwarber, 32, will be a free agent after his career-best 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schwarber was named a finalist for the award with Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani and New York Mets right fielder Juan Soto. The winner will be revealed on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez finalist for NL Cy Young Award<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez had a career year<\/a> for the Phillies in the 2025 season and stepped up after fellow ace Zack Wheeler was ruled out for the season with an injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez, who finished 10th in NL Cy Young Award voting in 2024, went 13-5 with a 2.50 ERA. His 212 strikeouts in 202 innings in the 2025 season ranked seventh in all of baseball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

S\u00e1nchez was named a finalist for the award alongside Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes and Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto. The winner will be named on Nov. 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thomson named finalist for NL Manager of the Year<\/p>\n

After a second straight NL East title, Thomson was named a finalist for NL Manager of the Year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Since Thomson replaced Joe Girardi as manager, the Phillies have gone to the playoffs every season, including a World Series trip in 2022. The Phillies have won at least 90 games in all three of Thomson’s full seasons as manager.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Thomson’s job security was questioned after another playoff exit, but he will be back for the 2026 season<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cincinnati Reds’ Terry Francona and Milwaukee Brewers’ Pat Murphy are also NL Manager of the Year finalists. The winner will be announced on Nov. 11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Phillies’ 2025 season ended in disappointment with another early playoff exit to the eventual World Series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4607,69,71,70,1425],"class_list":{"0":"post-23887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-kyle-schwarber","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news","12":"tag-philadelphia-phillies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}