Aaron Judge, Cal Raleigh Headline MLB Silver Slugger Awards 2025 Winners for AL

After MLB revealed the NL Silver Slugger winners on Thursday, the American League got their turn in the spotlight on Friday.

The AL features several repeat winners from 2024, led by MVP finalists Aaron Judge and José Ramírez.

Here is the full list of 2025 Silver Sluggers from the AL.

American League

Catcher: Cal Raleigh (Seattle Mariners)

First Base: Nick Kurtz (Athletics)

Second Base: Jazz Chisholm Jr. (New York Yankees)

Shortstop: Bobby Witt Jr. (Kansas City Royals)

Third Base: José Ramírez (Cleveland Guardians)

Outfield: Aaron Judge (New York Yankees); Byron Buxton (Minnesota Twins); Riley Greene (Detroit Tigers)

Designated Hitter: George Springer (Toronto Blue Jays)

Utility: Zach McKinstry (Detroit Tigers)

Team: New York Yankees

There were some positions that had an obvious and clear favorite. Apologies to all of the catchers in the American League, but Cal Raleigh's 49 homers from that position in 2025 were nearly double the next-closest player (Shea Langeliers: 26).

Judge, Witt and Ramírez have been established as the best players at their respecctive positions for several seasons at this point in the AL, and all three were terrific again in 2025.

Raleigh, Judge and Ramírez are the top three finalists for the AL MVP award this season, so it seemed likely they would also be recognized for their stellar offensive play.

Judge, in particular, was a shoo-in because he was the best offensive player in the sport by every advanced metric after leading MLB in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage. He became the first player since Miguel Cabrera in 2012 to accomplish that feat.

The race at first base between Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Nick Kurtz was very compelling. They were virtually even in batting average (.288 for Guerrero to .286 for Kurtz) and on-base percentage (.382 for Guerrero to .381 for Kurtz).

Kurtz's big advantage was in slugging percentage (.593 to .465) and home runs (31 to 20). He did play home games in the second-best offensive environment in MLB, but Rogers Centre wasn't far behind at No. 5.

Guerrero's name recognition was likely to give him the edge, but Kurtz had a stellar rookie campaign for the Athletics that there was no wrong choice for the voters.

Some advanced metrics, including wOBA and wRC+, had Witt behind Corey Seager, Jeremy Peña and Bo Bichette. The difference is Witt played 154 games, while the other three didn't top 130 games played.