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2025, Week 6

Written by Cory Puffett
Published May 5, 2025

Star Wars Day was yesterday, making today Revenge of the Fifth. I hope everyone enjoys their Star Wars week between the first half of Andor Season 2, Tales of the Underworld, and some rewatching of all the awesome content Lucasfilm has produced over the years.

Let's jump right into our recap for the first week of this season's second quarter.

Players of the Week

Catcher - Cal Raleigh, 9.55 points (Stephen April)

1st Baseman - Pete Alonso, 12.35 points (Eric Meyer)

2nd Baseman - Jorge Polanco, 7.30 points (Cory Puffett)

3rd Baseman - Alex Bregman, 10.80 points (Stephen April)

Shortstop - Willy Adames, 11.35 points (Alex Mayo)

OF - Aaron Judge, 14.00 points (Alex Mayo)

UTIL - Shohei Ohtani, 12.15 points (Sam Martin)

SP - Bailey Ober, 21.15 points (Rich Blorstad)

RP - Emmanuel Clase, 15.70 points (Stephen April)

Cal Raleigh has now won four of the last five Mike Piazza Awards as the AOA's highest scoring catcher of the week. I'll remind you all from last week's write-up, the first two of those weeks came on Sean's roster, but his sustained success has benefitted Stephen the past two games.

Pete Alonso had a really strong week and just edged out Freddie Freeman by 0.30 points, earing Eric his third Paul Goldschmidt Award of the season while denying Rich his second.

Alex Bregman won his second straight Wade Boggs Award as the league's highest scoring third baseman, while Aaron Judge captured his first Mike Trout Award since Week 1 and Shohei Ohtani earned the Hal McRae Award for the first time since Week 12 of last season.

Game of the Week: Rich Blorstad (114.65) vs Eric Meyer (97.45)

All-time H2H: Rich leads series 2-0

After falling behind in the first two days of the contest, Eric’s squad put together a strong Wednesday with five of his hitters scoring 1.9 points or more, Michael King putting together a very strong outing just one out shy of a quality start, and a save and hold from his two relievers.

Eric and Rich traded daily wins the next two days, with Rich’s counting for about five more points, but six extra base hits and a gem by Bailey Ober on Saturday gave Rich enough of a lead that Eric likely would have needed to pick up three starting pitchers and have all of them turn in master class performances on Sunday to make up the gap.

Rich's top scorer: Bailey Ober, 21.15 points (2 starts)

Eric's top scorer: Lucas Erceg, 13.60 points (4 relief appearances)

Stephen April (115.15) vs Cory Puffett (111.30)

All-time H2H: Series tied 1-1

Stephen's top scorer: Emmanuel Clase, 15.70 points (4 relief appearances)

Cory's top scorer: Logan Webb, 12.65 points (2 starts)

Sean Kennedy (112.35) vs Alex Mayo (104.65)

All-time H2H: Series tied 6-6

Sean's top scorer: Max Fried, 12.15 points (1 start)

Alex's top scorer: Freddy Peralta, 20.15 points (2 starts)

Sam Martin (108.95) vs Cory Frontin (81.50)

All-time H2H: Sam leads series 8-2

Sam's top scorer: Bryan Woo, 12.20 points (1 start)

Cory's top scorer: Tanner Bibee, 14.40 points (2 starts)

A couple managers swapped placed in the middle of this week's power rankings, but otherwise there was no movement. We did add our final metric to the calculus, Recency, which accounts for most of the movement our managers experiences in their power scores.

Rich earned his 8th career #1 power ranking and fifth of the season.

Cory Frontin, meanwhile, is at the bottom of the power rankings for the 20th time in his career, the second most in AOA history.

Note: MLB issues stat corrections up to 7 days after games. These corrections will be applied to games, including those that have been completed, but these articles will not necessarily be updated with those stat corrections.

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