Written by Cory Puffett
Published May 12, 2025

Cory Puffett became the 31st manager in AOA history to take home both the Manny Ramirez Award and Rickey Henderson Award in the same week, leading the league in scoring while securing a crucial victory in the game of the week.

Of more interest from a league history standpoint, though, was Eric's narrow victory against Alex. Back in Week 4, in their first matchup of the season, Eric and Alex appeared to be deadlocked, but an early-week stat correction gave Eric the victory by 0.60 points. Now, he's won each of hist first two games against Alex this season by a combined 1.45 points!

In both matchups, Ryan Walker delivered the death blow to Alex's squad. The only problem is, Walker plays for Alex's team! Back on April 20, the final day of that Week 4 contest, Walker gave up 4 earned runs and recorded only one out, blowing a save and taking a loss to score -5.80 points in that narrow loss. Yesterday, to cap off Week 7, Walker gave up just one earned run while recording two outs, but once again blew a save and took the loss, costing Alex's team 4.10 points.

Players of the Week

Catcher - Yainer Diaz, 5.60 points (Cory Frontin)

1st Baseman - Freddie Freeman, 16.20 points (Rich Blorstad)

2nd Baseman - Luis Urias, 4.30 points (Rich Blorstad)

3rd Baseman - Rafael Devers, 11.65 points (Eric Meyer)

Shortstop - Francisco Lindor, 11.90 points (Sam Martin)

OF - Aaron Judge, 10.70 points (Alex Mayo)

UTIL - Shohei Ohtani, 16.70 points (Sam Martin)

SP - Zack Wheeler, 23.45 points (Stephen April)

RP - Tanner Scott, 10.50 points (Stephen April)

Freddie Freeman had a massive week, scoring north of 16 points in an impressive outburst, capturing his first Paul Goldschmidt Award since claiming the prize in the 2025 season opener.

Francisco Lindor earned his second Barry Larkin Award of the campaign, after first capturing the honor in Week 5.

Aaron Judge continues to impress. His batting average is over .400 on the year and he's now won three Mike Trout Awards this season, including each of the last two.

Shohei Ohtani has also won the last two Hal McRae Awards as he is hitting his stride, no pun intended.

Stephen April became the first manager of the year to claim both Pitcher of the Week Awards. Wheeler earned his first Bobby Witt Award of the campaign while Tanner Scott earned his second Eric Gagne Award. Stephen has earned three of the last four reliever awards, including last week when Emmanuel Clase brough the award home to the Orange Team.

After swapping positions in the middle of the power rankings last week, Cory and Sam swapped right back this week.

Rich earned his 9th career #1 power ranking and sixth of the season.

Cory Frontin, meanwhile, is at the bottom of the power rankings for the 21st time in his career, just one shy of tying Sean Kennedy for the 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.