MLB All-October team: Stars who ruled 2025 playoffs - ESPN

What an MLB postseason!

After a thrilling month of playoff action — so thrilling, in fact, that it stretched into early November — it's time for our 2025 MLB All-October team.

Though Yoshinobu Yamamoto earned World Series MVP honors for his incredible performance during the Los Angeles Dodgers' seven-game triumph over the Toronto Blue Jays, that doesn't tell the whole story of the month. So to honor the best from every stage of the postseason, let's hand out hardware to a roster of October stars.

From wild-card-round sensations to World Series standouts, here are the players our ESPN MLB panel of experts voted as the best of the best at every position along with some award hardware for the brightest stars of October.

Catcher: Cal Raleigh, Seattle Mariners

Why he's here: Raleigh's record-setting regular season continued right into October as he belted five home runs and posted a 1.081 OPS before Seattle's postseason run ended in Game 7 of the ALCS.

Honorable mentions: Alejandro Kirk, Toronto Blue Jays; Will Smith, Los Angeles Dodgers

1B: Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Toronto Blue Jays

Why he's here: If the Blue Jays would have won one more game during the World Series, the introduction of this story would have been all about Guerrero and his incredible October exploits. The Blue Jays' superstar hit an incredible .412 with a 1.330 OPS during the postseason, delivering signature moment after signature moment while leading Toronto to where it hadn't been in three decades.

Honorable mentions: Michael Busch, Chicago Cubs; Josh Naylor, Seattle Mariners

2B: Nico Hoerner, Chicago Cubs

Why he's here: In a down year for the position, Hoerner had the highest OPS (.973) of all second baseman during the postseason while playing stellar