Jason Duponte Wins 2025 NFBC Ultimate Auction & $40,000

[Greg Ambrosius]

Jason Duponte of Natick, Massachusetts won the 2025 NFBC Ultimate Auction League title and the $40,000, his second Ultimate Auction League title in the last two years. Jason also won this title in 2023 and he also finished second in this year's Diamond Auction League. He did all of this while going to most Red Sox games this year and becoming an Internet sensation for his Hawaiian shirts and antics at home games!!!

Jason's Sparky's Toy team finished with 107 points to win this title in a very close race. Jon Stadtmueller finished with 104 points and won $20,000 for his runner-up finish. Philippe Dussault's team finished with 100.5 points to finish in third place, while earning $7,500.

Jason built his championship team around Jackson Chourio at $33, Jackson Merrill at $25, Jhoan Duran at $19, Robbie Ray at $16 and Freddy Peralta at $17. He finished with 69 pitching points, which was the difference in this race.

Jason became our third multi-time Ultimate Auction League champion in the 19 years of this contest. He has now won this title twice. Other multi-time Ultimate Auction League champions are Jon Stadtmueller, who has won four titles, and David Longood, who won three titles.

Great job everyone and congrats to all of the money winners. Here's the final standings:

2025 NFBC Ultimate Auction League Final Standings:
1 Jason Duponte Sparky's Toy 107
2 Jon Stadtmueller Mudhens 104
3 Philippe Dussault The Robot U3 100.5
4 Bill Phipps Phipps 99
5 Gregg Martin Martin_Ult 94.5
6 PETER EMCH Lingering Soreness 93.5
7 Anthony Botzo Botzo-Gaffney Ult Auc 91
8 Scott keikoan keikoan 87.5

Here's the prize structure for the NFBC Ultimate Auction League:
League Prizes
1 - $40,000
2 - $20,000
3 - $7,500

[Greg Ambrosius]

We have been hosting the NFBC Ultimate Auction League since 2005 and Jason Duponte becomes our third multi-time champion. He joins Jon Stadtmueller (4 titles) and David Longood (3 titles) as multi-time winners of this contest over the last 19 years. We actually had TWO NFBC Ultimate Auction Leagues in 2013 and 2014, but we also had a two-year hiatus in 2020-21 because of the pandemic. Here's the list of champions:

NFBC Ultimate Auction League Champions:
2005 - David Longood
2006 - Greg Morgan
2007 - David Longood
2008 - Ken Norred
2009 - David Longood
2010 - Will Tyrer
2011 - Kevin Kirves
2012 - Jon Stadtmueller
2013 - Glenn Lowy
2013 - Jeff Dobies/Steve Jupinka (League 2)
2014 - Dave Potts
2014 - Sam Botnick/Todd Zola (League 2)
2015 - Jon Stadtmueller
2016 - Ross Longood
2017 - Jon Stadtmueller
2018 - Jon Stadtmueller
2019 - Matt Modica
2022 - Shawn Johnson
2023 - Jason Duponte
2024 - Matt Shepherd
2025 - Jason Duponte

[Greg Ambrosius]

Here is Jason Duponte's winning roster that was started in the auction and continued in the 7-man reserve round:

Sparky's Toy:
C - Connor Wong $4
C - Alejandro Kirk $4
1B - Tristan Casas $15
2B - Kristian Campbell $3
SS - Ceddanne Rafaela $7
3B - Rafael Devers $21
CI - Vinnie Pasquantino $13
MI - Trevor Story $5
UT - Christopher Morel $3
OF - Jackson Chourio $33
OF - Jackson Merrill $25
OF - Lane Thomas $7
OF - Willi Castro $6
OF - Jo Adell $3

P - Jordan Romano $9
P - Robbie Ray $16
P - Jhoan Duran $19
P - Freddy Peralta $17
P - Pablo Lopez $18
P - Hunter Brown $17
P - Drew Rasmussen $8
P - Ranger Suarez $3
P - Kris Bubic 4

R - Griffin Canning
R - Brayan Bello
R - Miguel Vargas
R - Hayden Wesneski
R - Yennier Cano
R - Logan Henderson
R - Stephen Kolek

[Greg Ambrosius]

Here were all of the free agent winning bids by Jason Duponte in the NFBC Las Vegas Ultimate Auction League:

Sparky's Toy:
March 30:
Zebby Matthews 14
David Festa 4
Beau Brieske 2

April 6:
Landon Knack 27

April 13:
Amed Rosario 12
Carlos Narvaez 4
Abner Uribe 13

April 20:
Caleb Durbin 114
Ty France 47
Mickey Moniak 17

April 27:
Dillon Dingler 18

May 4:
Max Muncy 56
Romy Gonzalez 28
Isaac Collins 2

May 11:
Jesus Sanchez 114
Michael Conforto 47
Addison Barger 26

May 18:
Jesus Tinoco 9
Matthew Lugo 6

May 25:
Robert Garcia 7
Jorge Lopez 7

June 1:
Cole Young 8
Mike Tauchman 2
Jurickson Profar 5

June 8:
Ronny Mauricio 146
Tyler Freeman 5
Dylan Lee 3

June 22:
Michael Toglia 75
Mauricio Dubon 4

June 29:
Daniel Schneemann 2

July 6:
Shawn Armstrong 2
Ha-Seong Kim 37

July 13:
Romy Gonzalez 17
Reid Detmers 8
Brad Lord 3

July 20:
Jose A. Ferrer 3
Josh Jung 8

July 27:
Lars Nootbaar 28
Jonah Heim 3
Jeremiah Estrada 3

August 3:
Nolan Gorman 15
Cal Quantrill 3
Carson Whisenhunt 1

August 10:
Justin Topa 7
Elvis Alvarado 2
Jeremiah Jackson 2
Victor Robles 6

August 17:
Michael Lorenzen 3
Heriberto Hernandez 2
Bob Seymour 2
Bryce Teodosio 1

August 24:
Luis Matos 4
Riley O'Brien 3
Javier Sanoja 1

August 31:
Kyle Leahy 2
Andrew Kittredge 1
Brooks Baldwin 1

September 7:
Jordan Leasure 3
Riley O'Brien 1

September 14:
Kyle Freeland 1
Bryce Teodosio 1

September 21:
Thomas Saggese 1
Jordan Walker 1