Gabriel Moreno makes 1st Team All-MLB, finishes top 10 for NL MVP

Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Gabriel Moreno was named to the All-MLB First Team during MLB Awards on Wednesday and finished sixth in the National League MVP voting on Thursday.

Moreno had already won the NL batting title and added his second career Gold Glove, as the 26-year-old continues to clean up during awards season. He is also a finalist for the Silver Slugger, which awards the best hitter at a given position and will be announced on Tuesday.

Pete Crow-Armstrong of the Chicago Cubs won the NL MVP, with Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani coming in second. Moreno received three third-place votes and finished right behind NL Cy Young winner, Jacob Misiorowski.

The Diamondbacks have had top 10 finishers for the MVP award each year since 2023. Geraldo Perdomo and Corbin Carroll finished fourth and seventh, respectively, in 2025. Ketel Marte came in third in 2024, and Carroll finished fifth in 2023.

Moreno had been a good hitter throughout his first three seasons with the D-backs to go along with a strong defensive profile, but he made a leap in 2026 when it came to his power.

He hit a career-high 16 home runs with 83 RBIs. Moreno had shown off great bat-to-ball skills and the ability to punch base hits to the opposite field, but he took more shots this past season that resulted in increased slug against fastballs and more fly balls hit to the pull side. He crushed 33 doubles, eighth in the National League, but did not venture too far toward selling out for power to knock his batting average down.

He became the first player in D-backs history to win the batting title and second player in MLB history to win a Gold Glove in the same season in which he won a batting title. Joe Mauer (2008-09) was the first.

Moreno led all major league catchers in the following categories:

• WAR (FanGraphs): 5.4
• Batting average: .311
• On-base percentage: .388
• wRC+: 141 (100 is an average hitter)

Behind the plate, Moreno was second in defensive runs saved with 14, trailing Detroit’s Dillon Dingler with 15. Dingler made All-MLB Second Team.

Moreno was the first Diamondbacks catcher to earn All-MLB honors, which started in 2019. Last year, Marte made First Team, while Carroll was picked to the Second Team. The honorees were picked via fan vote and a panel of media members, broadcasters, former players and officials.

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