Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees Named American League Player of the Month Presented By Chevrolet For September; Daylen Lile of the Washington Nationals Named National League Player of the Month Presented By Chevrolet For September
Outfielder Aaron Judge of the New York Yankees has been voted the American League Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet for September, and rookie outfielder Daylen Lile of the Washington Nationals has been voted the National League Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet for September. The announcements were made earlier today on MLB Network.
Judge earned his 12th career honor and third of the season after previously winning for March/April and May. He has won each of the Yankees’ last 10 recognitions, also being honored twice in 2017 (June and September); three times in 2022 (May, July & September/October); once in May 2023; and three times in 2024 (May, June & August). Overall, Judge’s 12 monthly honors are the most in the AL and second-most all-time, trailing only Barry Bonds, who won 13 career awards all in the NL. Along with Max Fried’s honor as Pitcher of the Month, it is the 54th time a club has earned Player and Pitcher of the Month in a single month and the third time this season, joining the Yankees in March/April and the Milwaukee Brewers in August (Brice Turang/Freddy Peralta). Lile earned his first career award and is the first Nationals player to win since Kyle Schwarber in June 2021. Along with his NL Rookie of the Month honor, Lile is the 11th player (13th occurrence) to win both awards in the same calendar month, joining Nick Kurtz (July 2025); Wyatt Langford (September 2024); Aristides Aquino (August 2019); Judge (June & September 2017); Gary Sánchez (August 2016); José Abreu (April & July 2014); Yasiel Puig (June 2013); Mike Trout (July 2012); Buster Posey (July 2010); and Ryan Braun (July 2007). Among the group, Judge, Sánchez, Abreu, Trout, Posey and Braun were each named Jackie Robinson Rookie of the Year for their respective league.
Aaron Judge, New York Yankees (@thejudge44)
The 33-year-old hit .370 (30-for-81) with 10 homers, 17 RBI, two doubles, 27 walks, 27 runs scored, three stolen bases, a .765 slugging percentage and a .527 on-base percentage across 25 games.
The Linden, California native led the Majors in on-base percentage, OPS (1.292), walks and runs scored; tied for the Major League lead in home runs; ranked second in slugging; ranked third in batting average; tied for fourth in total bases (62); and tied for ninth in hits (30).
The 2025 Rod Carew AL Batting Champion finished his season on a five-game hitting streak, becoming the 10th Yankee to win a batting title, joining DJ LeMahieu (2020); Bernie Williams (1998); Paul O’Neill (1994); Don Mattingly (1984); Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle (1956); Snuffy Stirnweiss (1945); Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio (2x: 1939 & 1940); Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig (1934); and Hall of Famer Babe Ruth (1924).
The 2022 and 2024 AL MVP hammered a pair of home runs on Tuesday against the White Sox to reach the 50-homer mark for the fourth time in his career, joining 2017, 2022 and 2024. He is the fourth player with a record four seasons of 50 home runs, joining Ruth, Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa. Additionally, Judge is the third batting champion with 50 homers in a season, joining Hall of Famers Mantle (52 HR in 1956) and Jimmie Foxx (50 HR in 1938). He launched a homer on Friday and Saturday against Baltimore, finishing the year with 53 longballs.
The seven-time All-Star reached base multiple times in 19 games in September as he finished the season with a Major League-leading and career-best 101 games in which he reached base safely at least twice. His 101 such games were the second-most by a Yankee in a single season since 1958, trailing only Hall of Famer Derek Jeter’s 1999 campaign (104 G). Judge drew multiple walks in nine September contests, also leading the Majors with 31 such games this year. He led the Majors with an AL-record 36 intentional walks (tracked since 1955), being intentionally walked twice in a game on six occasions, including twice in September, marking the most such games in a season since Albert Pujols’ six games in 2009 with St. Louis.
The 2023 Roberto Clemente Award winner hit at least 10 home runs and recorded an on-base percentage north of .500 for the fourth time in his career, joining June and August 2024 and September 2022. Prior to 2022, no Yankee had reached those figures in a single month since Jason Giambi in July 2005. Judge is one of six active players to reach those figures in a single month, and he is the only active player to achieve the feat multiple times. Other active players with at least 10 homers and an on-base percentage of at least .500 in a single month include Mookie Betts (August 2023); Carson Kelly (April 2021); Cody Bellinger (April 2019); Christian Yelich (September 2018); and Justin Turner (June 2017).
Daylen Lile, Washington Nationals (@_daylen_lile)
The 22-year-old hit .391 (36-for-92) with six homers, 19 RBI, three doubles, seven triples, eight walks, 20 runs scored, a stolen base, a .772 slugging percentage and a .440 on-base percentage in 25 contests.
The Louisville, Kentucky native led the Majors in slugging, hits (36), triples and total bases (71); ranked second in batting average and OPS (1.212); ranked third in on-base percentage; tied for third in extra-base hits; tied for fifth in RBI; and tied for eighth in runs scored.
The second-round selection in the 2021 Draft tallied a hit in each of his first 10 games of the month and recorded a hit in 21 of his 25 contests, also tallying a hit in seven consecutive games from September 19th-27th. He recorded two hits in five consecutive games from September 2nd-7th, becoming the fifth player in Nationals/Expos history under the age of 23 with multiple hits in five straight games and the first since his teammate CJ Abrams from July 8th-16th, 2023.
The speedster’s seven triples were the most in a single month in Nationals/Expos franchise history, and the most in the Majors since José Reyes also had seven for the Mets in June 2011. Per Sarah Langs of MLB.com, Lile is the sixth player in the last 120 seasons with at least six homers and at least seven triples in a single month and the first since Hall of Famer Willie Mays in June 1957. His 11 triples are the most by a rookie since Eddie Rosario had 15 three-baggers for Minnesota in 2015 and he is the first rookie in franchise history with more than 10 triples in a season.
Lile hit a go-ahead inside-the-park home run on September 20th at Citi Field in the 11th inning, marking the ninth inside-the-park home run in Nationals’ history (since 2005) and the first in extra innings. His 14.86 seconds to circle the bases was the second-fastest time of the year on a home-to-home run behind Jarren Duran’s 14.71 second dash for the Red Sox during his inside-the-parker on August 31st.
The rookie reached base safely in a career-best 16 consecutive games from August 31st through the first game of a doubleheader on September 16th, hitting .433/.493/.817/1.309 during the stretch. Along with his 15-game on-base streak from June 21st-July 10th, he became the first Nationals player under the age of 23 with multiple on-base streaks of at least 15 games since Juan Soto in 2021.
Seattle Mariners All-Star catcher Cal Raleigh (.278, 10 HR, 18 RBI, 5 2B, 16 BB, 22 R, .629 SLG, .391 OBP) was the only other player to receive votes for AL Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet. Raleigh, finished the year with 60 home runs, setting the Mariners’ single-season home run record, surpassing Hall of Famer Ken Griffey Jr.’s mark of 56 home runs in 1997 and 1998. He also set the single-season record for most home runs by a switch-hitter, surpassing Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle’s 1961 record of 54.
Others receiving votes for NL Player of the Month presented by Chevrolet included two-way player Shohei Ohtani (.312, 10 HR, 17 RBI, 8 2B, 1 3B, 18 BB, 22 R, 3 SB, .742 SLG, .423 OBP, 0.00 ERA, 3 GS, 14.2 IP, 8 H, 2 BB, 18 SO, 0.68 WHIP) of the Los Angeles Dodgers; right fielder Juan Soto (.309, 8 HR, 21 RBI, 4 2B, 1 3B, 18 R, 12 SB, .619 SLG, .404 OBP) of the New York Mets; and first baseman Michael Busch (.244, 8 HR, 5 2B, 1 3B, 12 BB, 14 R, .634 SLG) of the Chicago Cubs.