Cal Raleigh of the Seattle Mariners has been selected the 2025 Baseball Digest/Inside Edge MLB Player of the Year. Paul Skenes of the Pittsburgh Pirates has been named MLB Pitcher of the Year while Aroldis Chapman of the Boston Red Sox has been voted MLB Relief Pitcher of the Year.
Raleigh received 12 first-place votes, eight second-place votes and four third-place votes from the independently submitted ballots of a 24-member blue-ribbon panel of longtime baseball observers, which included writers, broadcasters, former players, managers and executives. Aaron Judge of the New Yankees received eight first-place votes, 13 second-place votes and three third-place votes. Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Dodgers got four first-place votes along with three second-place votes and 14 third-pl