SEATTLE \u2014 Cal Raleigh had a remarkable season as the MLB\u2019s home run leader, while breaking records and helping the Mariners win their first AL West title since 2001.<\/p>\n
So it\u2019s no surprise that he was named MLB Player of the Year for 2025 by Sporting News.<\/p>\n
According to Sporting News, Raleigh won, gaining 46% of the player vote, beating out Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n
The only other two Mariners to win the title were Alex Rodriguez in 1996 and Ken Griffey Jr. the following year in 1997.<\/p>\n
The sports website pointed to Raleigh\u2019s offensive performance and his defensive contributions as a catcher as factors that helped him claim the award. <\/p>\n
On top of being the home run leader this season, he caught 1,072 innings without a passed ball putting in the the third post for this stat in MLB.<\/p>\n
This win could signal an American League MVP win for Raleigh.<\/p>\n
That award will be announced on Nov. 13.<\/p>\n
\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEATTLE \u2014 Cal Raleigh had a remarkable season as the MLB\u2019s home run leader, while breaking records and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-249771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}