MLB awards for 2025: 最高殊勲選手, 最高の，を越す 新人, least 価値のある player in the hobby

The arduous 162-game grind is now 完全にする, and the 2025 Major League Baseball プレーオフs begin Tuesday.

But before we say goodbye to the 正規の／正選手 season, it's time to look 支援する at the best and worst players from 2025 ... in the hobby.

So take a break from the endless AL 最高殊勲選手 審議 and wondering what went wrong for the Mets, and enjoy cllct's awards for the '25 season.

Here's our look at how the baseball card market has moved since 開始 Day.

Most 価値のある Player: Shohei Ohtani

Ohtani’s place 頂上に the baseball card market might 結局 become a little exhausting to some collectors, but the data so far has been 否定できない.

Of the cards and players 跡をつけるd by Market Movers, Ohtani has been by far the best-selling baseball player since the start of the season with more than 43,000 sales logged over the last 180 days.

Ohtani’s total easily より勝るs second-place finisher Paul Skenes’ 概略で 36,000, and his 人気 comes into even more 焦点（を合わせる） when looking at his 普通の／平均（する） sale price. Of the sales logged by Market Movers, Ohtani’s 普通の／平均（する） is $235, which easily （太陽，月の）食／失墜s Skenes’ $67 and Aaron 裁判官’s $198.

The most popular card for Ohtani over the last 180 days has been his 2018 Bowman base, which has sold more than 1,200 times over that period.

For 視野, that 選び出す／独身 card alone has had more sales 跡をつけるd by Market Movers than the entire markets for some All-星／主役にするs, 含むing Jose Altuze, Jazz Chisholm Jr., Kyle Tucker and even former 最高殊勲選手 Christian Yelich.

As 推定する／予想するd, Ohtani has been by far PSA’s most graded baseball player in 2025, with more than 130,000 authenticated cards, によれば GemRate. Skenes has been the second-most graded player this year with more than 83,000 cards.

Least 価値のある Player: Jac Caglianone

From both a collecting and on-field 見地, there might not be many players who left fans and hobbyists alike more disappointed than Caglianone in 2025.

One of the best 強打者s in the minors, Caglianone made his debut to much ファンファーレ／誇示 June 3 and within a month saw a 素晴らしい 記録，記録的な／記録する sale when his 2024 Bowman Chrome Prospect Autograph Padparadscha 1/1 sold for $63,000.

Unfortunately for both collectors and 王室のs fans, Caglianone scuffled most of the way, finishing with -1.3 bWAR in 210 at-bats after 削除するing just .157/.237/.295.

Of the cards to 崩壊（する）, his 2024 1st Bowamn 草案 Chrome Autograph PSA 10 has been one of the biggest losers, dropping from a high of $1,300 over the last 180 days all the way 負かす／撃墜する to a 最近の sale of $432.

A slow start shouldn’t doom Caglianone’s market, and he’ll have a トン of graded examples flooding the 産業 in the coming months. によれば GemRate, PSA has graded more nearly 14,000 cards for Caglianone since the start of 2025, which is 14th-most の中で all baseball players over that period.

Cy Young: Paul Skenes

Truthfully, Skenes’ card market since his debut has been nothing short of shocking. In 新規加入 to bucking the 傾向 of hobbyists 大部分は 避けるing 投手s, Skenes has remained popular while 押すing every five days for a 著作権侵害者s franchise that hasn't 匂いをかぐd the postseason in the last １０年間.

Of the players 跡をつけるd by Market Movers, only Ohtani has had more sales logged over the last 180 days. The next closest 投手 to Skenes’ 概略で 36,000 sales is Yoshinobu Yamamoto with より小数の than 10,000.

Beyond his low-end market, Skenes also 配達するd the most expensive public sale for an active baseball player so far this year when his 2024 Topps Chrome Update 新人 Debut Patch Autograph 1/1 sold for $1.11 million to 刑事’s 冒険的な Goods in March.

Skenes has been 歴史的に good on the 塚 to start his career, and that has more than 流出／こぼすd into his card market.

Cy Yuck: Roki Sasaki

Sasaki entered 2025 as one of the most intriguing players in baseball, but a slow start and then an impingement in his 権利 shoulder more or いっそう少なく 廃虚d his 新人 season.

In total, Sasaki finished the 正規の／正選手 season with a 4.46 ERA in 36.1 innings pitched across 10 games, 含むing eight starts. The 23-year-old will surely 回復する long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 and have a 広大な／多数の／重要な career, but collectors are 複雑にするd and can be quick to give up on even the best prospects.

Of the sales 跡をつけるd by Market Movers, Sasaki’s market is 負かす／撃墜する 44% over the last 180 days across nearly 5,000 sales. His best-selling card over that period, his 2025 Topps 遺産 Base, has dropped 87% over that period from a high of $15 負かす／撃墜する to about $2.

新人 of the Year: Nick Kurtz

The runaway favorite to 勝利，勝つ AL 新人 of the Year, Kurtz is also easily the hobby’s ROY 勝利者 for 2025.

It’s still 早期に to call him a hobby 星／主役にする, but the 早期に returns are 極端に strong, with the 運動競技のs first baseman piling up more than 7,000 sales over the last 180 days, によれば Market Movers.

によれば Market Movers, Kurtz’s market is up 120% collectively over that period with an 普通の／平均（する） sale of $179 ― though it’s easier for Kurtz to have a high price growth 増加する because his market started low. Still, it's important to remember it’s difficult to 持続する 肯定的な price growth, let alone 極端に high growth, across a high number of 処理／取引s.

Of the 最高の，を越す 40 best-selling baseball players over the last 180 days, Kurtz is one of only nine active players with 肯定的な growth.

Breakout Player: Cal Raleigh

最高殊勲選手 or not, no 非，不，無-新人 reshaped their card market more in 2025 than Raleigh.

Raleigh’s cards 跡をつけるd by Market Movers are up 141% in price over the last 180 days across more than 9,300 sales, and his sales 容積／容量 over that period is up more than 1,500%.

事前の to the start of 2025, Raleigh’s highest public card sale was the $5,000 spent on his 2021 Bowman Chrome Superfractor Autograph 1/1 in March 2024. The 水夫s catcher now has had 19 sales 最高の，を越す that since 開始 Day, によれば Card Ladder’s 記録，記録的な／記録するs, 含むing the 記録，記録的な／記録する $80,520 paid for his 2019 Bowman Chrome Prospect Superfractor Autograph 1/1 on Monday.

の中で baseball’s best feel-good stories from 2025, collectors will likely 監視する whether or not Raleigh is able to replicate his historic season before elevating him into hobby stardom.

Card of the Year: 2024 Topps Chrome Update Paul Skenes 新人 Debut Patch Autograph 1/1

Deciding how to choose a card for this space is 複雑にするd because of how 製品 解放（する） cycles work, so we’re going to play a little loose with this 部類 and select Skenes’ RPDA.

This card, which sold to 刑事’s 冒険的な Goods for a 記録，記録的な／記録する $1.11 million in March, was the most coveted card from the 始める，決める, and it had one of the most captivating chases of any card created during the ultra-modern 時代.

Yes, it was 解放（する）d as part of 2024 Topps Chrome Update last November, but it did 結局最後にはーなる selling in 2025, and has been by far the most important modern baseball card to sell in 最近の years.

Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct, the 首相 company for collectible culture. He was 以前 the Collectibles Editor at Sports Illustrated. You can follow him on X and Instagram @benmburrows.