There's a lot going on in Las Vegas for MLB Awards Week.
In addition to the annual GM Meetings, Thursday night saw the third annual MLB Awards presented by MGM Rewards take place at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, co-hosted by Dodgers superstar Mookie Betts and comedian and Emmy-nominated producer Roy Wood Jr.
With the eyes of baseball on Sin City for the week and A-list players from all over the league gathered for the festivities, another marquee event is the inaugural Capital One MLB Open, pitting 60 current and former Major League players -- representing all 30 clubs. Some Major Leaguers hit the links on Wednesday for the Capital One MLB Open Pro-Am ahead of two days of tournament action on Thursday and Friday.
Here's a rundown of some of the best moments so far at the Capital One MLB Open, as well as some highlights from the MLB Awards later in the evening.
Blue Jays vs. Dodgers again!
Everybody loves a rematch.
This time around, though, a group of key members of the Dodgers and Blue Jays traded the infield dirt for the fairway, with postseason hit machine Ernie Clement and 1993 World Series hero Joe Carter squaring up against 2025 Game 7 hero Will Smith and Dodgers franchise favorite Andre Ethier.
Joe was up for some verbal sparring, as well -- after Clement shouts "Touch 'em all, baby!" in reference to Carter's 1993 World Series homer, Carter smiles and says, "See, Will, you don't get that. Nope. Because it was on the road, baby," recalling Smith's game-winning Game 7 homer this past Fall Classic.
Tarik Skubal wins Cy Young, sinks a tough putt
It's Skubal's world, we're just living in it.
After the Tigers' dominant left-hander became the first pitcher to win consecutive Cy Young Awards since Pedro Martinez in 1999-2000 and just the second to win multiple Cy Youngs in a Tigers jersey, he took to the green to sink a particularly challenging put that he later attributed to some special monogrammed golf balls:
Just as Skubal upgraded his Cy Young hardware this week, though, he'll have to order another round of golf balls since this set only covers his 2024 Cy Young Award and Triple Crown.
Must be nice to have that kind of problem.
Mookie Betts can literally do anything
We might have to consider it a toss-up between Skubal and Betts to see who's having a better couple of weeks, honestly.
After the Dodgers' outfielder-turned-infielder picked up his fourth World Series ring, he headed right to Vegas to co-host the MLB Awards.
Because why not? The man literally born with the initials MLB is on his own path. We already know he excels at baseball, and he's a professional bowler in what spare time (pun intended) that he can find. Oh, and he's bowled a perfect 300 game or five over the years.
Apparently, he's also a menace on the golf course. Just look at this drive:
OK Mookie, we get it.
Cal Raleigh mic'd up
Seattle's star catcher, who broke out in a big way this season with a historic 60-homer campaign to lead the Mariners to within one win of their first World Series appearance in franchise history, caught up with MLB Network's Greg Amsinger during the MLB Awards broadcast.
It was a busy evening for Raleigh, who was named to the 2025 All-MLB 1st Team hours after being announced as the runner-up to the Yankees' Aaron Judge in a hotly contested AL MVP race, only twenty points separating the two in the final vote totals by members of the Baseball Writers' Association of America.
Michael A. Harris doesn't know his own strength
When you swing a golf club, the head isn't supposed to fly off the shaft once you make contact, the club snapping into pieces like a sawed-off baseball bat on a sinker low and inside.
Despite this known fact, the Braves outfielder took a mighty hack at the Pro-Am and ... well, you can figure out what happened.
That photo is just as impressive as the ones you see on the walls of restaurants and pubs of people posing with the prize halibut they caught fishing, though, so Harris has nothing to hang his head about. Quite the opposite, in fact!
Jokes, bits and laughs at the MLB Awards
When it was time for the MLB Awards to kick off, Betts was in full-on host mode. Who cares if he hasn't done it before? How hard could it be? The man already has a podcast, in addition to all of the aforementioned top-tier sports skills.
This cross-disciplinary excellence was worked into the opening sequence, when Wood made an amusing callback to Mookie's ability to thrive at any position he plays on the diamond ... and he's played a few:
Betts: "Hosting is not that hard. You just smile and read."
Wood: "This ain't like going from right field to shortstop to second base back to shortstop. That's easy, OK? This is a whole different ballgame."
Wood's ode to no no-no's in 2025
The 2025 MLB season was eventful in many ways, but it was the first season since 2005 without a no-hitter and just the fifth year without a no-no in the Divisional Era (since 1969). That's rare stuff.
Taking this as inspiration for a musical number, Wood showed off his vocal skills with a song about the lack of no-hitters this season, specifically calling out a three-day span in September in which the Dodgers lost a no-hit bid with two outs in Baltimore (and lost the game) and then lost a combined no-hit bid in the ninth in Los Angeles against the Rockies (they won that one).
Wood makes some jabs at Betts -- who didn't have anything to do with either of those no-hit-bid-ending sequences, to be clear -- in his lyrics, before the song is abruptly and amusingly cut short by an unamused Betts.
By the time the MLB Awards wrapped with Hank Aaron Awards being handed once again to Judge and Ohtani, it was time for Wood and Betts to say goodbye ... and for Betts to quip that next time, he won't need a hosting partner.
All of these moments from the Capital One MLB Open Golf Tournament and the MLB Awards were just a few of the highlights from a great week in Las Vegas.
If you weren't there at Shadow Creek in Las Vegas for the tournament, don't fret -- there will be tournament coverage airing on Tuesday, Nov. 18, on TNT, a behind-the-scenes look at the tourney on MLB Network Thursday, Nov. 20 (9 p.m. ET) and extensive coverage scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 22 at 1 p.m. ET.