The 2025 New York Mets are, generally speaking, a very good baseball team. The 2025 Pittsburgh Pirates are, objectively, a very bad baseball team. Those two facts alone made the Pirates' three-game weekend sweep — capped off with an emphatic 12-1 win on Sunday — improbable enough.
The first half of the MLB season has been filled with tremendous performances, and the race for the major league awards is heating up. These are the frontrunners for the 2025 MLB awards, from FanDuel Sportsbook as of June 30.
The starting lineups for the 2025 MLB All-Star Game are set to be revealed on July 6. While the fans have their say for the starting lineups, the most deserving All-Star starters could be very different than the actual starters.
The Athletics stunned the baseball universe when they signed pitcher Luis Severino to a three-year, $67 million contract. That contract already appears to be a mistake.
If the Cubs do re-sign Tucker, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic named five players on the current roster who might not rejoin the team in 2026, including two starting pitchers and three key pieces of the lineup.
Midway through the 2025 MLB season, the NL Central has emerged as the most competitive in baseball. Five games separated the top four teams entering Saturday.
A fan has been banned from all MLB stadiums over something he said to Ketel Marte during a recent game between the Diamondbacks and White Sox, and some new info about the heckling has surfaced.
Friday night around MLB saw several incredible pitching performances. None were as dominant, though, as the outing turned in by the Cardinals' Sonny Gray in their 5-0 win over the Cleveland Guardians.
The New York Mets elected to keep young infielder Ronny Mauricio up in the big leagues and optioned designated hitter Jared Young to make room for returning third baseman Mark Vientos.