What Baseball Has Taught Us At The 2025 Memorial Day Marker
The post What Baseball Has Taught Us At The 2025 Memorial Day Marker appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Shohei Ohtani’s prowess as leadoff man and slugging DH has given him an early lead in the National … More League’s Most Valuable Player race. (Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images) Getty Images Throughout baseball history, teams have looked at Memorial Day not only as a time of remembrance and reflection for those in military service but also as an indicator of how the balance of the season could progress. Most teams had played 50 games when the holiday weekend started – with the defending league champions sitting in first place in their respective divisions. Although the 50-game marker is still four games short of the one-third mark, some things about the game never seem to change. For example: In addition to the Yankees and Dodgers keeping tight grips on first place, their biggest stars (Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, respectively) have even more secure leads in their bids to retain their Most Valuable Player trophies, possibly by unanimous vote again With 14 pitchers occupying their Injured List at the same time, the Dodgers indicate Ohtani will resume his two-way status in the near future Aaron Judge is well on his way toward a third MVP trophy. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) Getty Images Judge won’t become the first .400 hitter since Ted Williams in 1941 but he’s hitting for a higher average without losing an ounce of his power after returning to right field, where he’s more comfortable, after a year in center Soto Dollars Spent After failing to retain Juan Soto, who jumped crosstown to the Mets with a 15-year, $765 million contract that was a record for dollars and length, the Yankees wisely invested projected Soto money into contracts for free agents Max Fried and Paul Goldschmidt plus trade acquisitions Cody Bellinger and Devin Williams Fried,…
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Shohei Ohtani’s prowess as leadoff man and slugging DH has given him an early lead in the National … More League’s Most Valuable Player race. (Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images) Getty Images Throughout baseball history, teams have looked at Memorial Day not only as a time of remembrance and reflection for those in military service but also as an indicator of how the balance of the season could progress. Most teams had played 50 games when the holiday weekend started – with the defending league champions sitting in first place in their respective divisions. Although the 50-game marker is still four games short of the one-third mark, some things about the game never seem to change. For example: In addition to the Yankees and Dodgers keeping tight grips on first place, their biggest stars (Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, respectively) have even more secure leads in their bids to retain their Most Valuable Player trophies, possibly by unanimous vote again With 14 pitchers occupying their Injured List at the same time, the Dodgers indicate Ohtani will resume his two-way status in the near future Aaron Judge is well on his way toward a third MVP trophy. (Photo by Mike Stobe/Getty Images) Getty Images Judge won’t become the first .400 hitter since Ted Williams in 1941 but he’s hitting for a higher average without losing an ounce of his power after returning to right field, where he’s more comfortable, after a year in center Soto Dollars Spent After failing to retain Juan Soto, who jumped crosstown to the Mets with a 15-year, $765 million contract that was a record for dollars and length, the Yankees wisely invested projected Soto money into contracts for free agents Max Fried and Paul Goldschmidt plus trade acquisitions Cody Bellinger and Devin Williams Fried,…
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