Four Phillies named to All-MLB teams at MLB Awards

Four Phillies players were named to the All-MLB teams at the MLB Awards on Thursday night in Las Vegas to honor their performances in the 2025 season.

Closer Jhoan Duran was a first-team selection alongside Red Sox reliever Aroldis Chapman. Designated hitter Kyle Schwarber and starting pitchers Cristopher Sánchez and Zack Wheeler were named to the second team. All-MLB teams are determined by 50% fan vote and 50% media vote.

Duran, who came to Philadelphia in a trade-deadline deal with the Minnesota Twins, had a 2.06 ERA in 72 appearances between the two teams this season, racking up 32 saves in 70 innings. The right-hander has a power arm and a signature “splinker” in his arsenal, and he consistently pounds the strike zone. Duran and Chapman were tied for the fifth-most saves in the major leagues.

In a career year, Schwarber hit a National League-leading 56 home runs and drove in 132 runs for the big-league lead in RBIs. He became just the second Phillies player to surpass 50 homers in a season, nearly matching Ryan Howard’s franchise record of 58 set in 2006. Schwarber finished second in NL MVP voting behind two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, who also earned the first-team All-MLB DH spot.

Sánchez, the runner-up to Paul Skenes for the NL Cy Young Award, had a 2.50 ERA and threw a career-high 202 innings in 32 starts. The left-hander has proven himself as a rising star, and he continued to perform like an ace after Wheeler was sidelined for Philadelphia in August.

The veteran righty Wheeler has been the Phillies’ No. 1 starter for years, but he was diagnosed with a blood clot in August and missed the rest of the season after undergoing surgery to correct the thoracic outlet syndrome that caused the medical issue. Still, Wheeler had a 2.71 ERA in 24 starts, pitching at a level high enough while he was healthy to receive a selection on the All-MLB second team.