The 2025 season is quickly approaching.
Spring coaching will start in the course of February with video games starting shortly thereafter. Opening Day is closing in. Whereas nobody can really know the way the 2025 season will finish, there are certain to be many thrilling moments all through the season.
The 2025 season may additionally be memorable as a number of gamers look so as to add their names to the document books. Let’s check out some vital milestones inside attain for the upcoming season.
The three,500 strikeout membership might acquire two new members.
Pitchers Justin Verlander (3,416) and Max Scherzer (3.407) are near turning into the tenth and eleventh members of the 3,500 strikeout club. If each pitchers keep wholesome, they may surpass the legendary Walter Johnson and Gaylord Perry on the all-time ranks. Verlander signed a one-year, $15 million contract with the Giants whereas Scherzer is reportedly drawing interest after his showcase earlier within the week.
A brand new member of the three,000 strikeout membership as properly
It appeared as if the three,000 strikeout membership would ultimately acquire two new members final yr as pitchers Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw have been inside putting distance of that milestone. Greinke, nonetheless, was not signed final season. Kershaw suffered by an injury-plagued season to complete with 2,968 strikeouts, leaving him 32 strikeouts away from turning into the twentieth pitcher to affix the three,000-strikeout membership. Though Kershaw stays unsigned, and the Dodgers have drastically upgraded the pitching staff, he’s expected to join the Dodgers sooner or later. If he can keep wholesome, Kershaw ought to be a part of that group this yr.
4 gamers might be a part of the 350 residence run membership
Precisely 100 players have hit at the very least 350 homers of their main league profession. 4 gamers — first basemen Freddie Freeman (343) and Bryce Harper (336) and third basemen Manny Machado (342) and Nolan Arenado (341) — might all be a part of that membership by the All-Star break. It will be one other step towards the Corridor of Fame for that quartet.
A notable season for Machado
The 350-home run plateau shouldn’t be the one milestone on Machado’s radar. He’s additionally 9 runs away from the 1,000-run plateau and 100 hits away from the two,000-hit membership. As Machado is 32 years outdated and signed by the 2033 season, he might simply discover himself in Cooperstown as soon as his profession ends.
The Shohei Ohtani class
Babe Ruth is the one participant in main league historical past with at the very least 250 homers and 50 wins. Relying on when Ohtani returns to the mound in 2025, he might be a part of Ruth in that unique membership. Ohtani is simply 25 homers and 12 wins away from each milestones. Ohtani and Ruth are inevitably compared to one another — this is able to be one other space the place he would match the legendary Babe.
