Daily Statcast leaders for Day 8 (February 27) of Spring Training: Exit velocity Distance Pitch velocity Swings & misses 🔥 💪 ⭐️

Freddy Peralta will be the 8th pitcher in Mets history to make his team debut with an Opening Day start, joining: 2025 Clay Holmes 2008 Johan Santana 2005 Pedro Martínez 2003 Tom Glavine 2000 Mike Hampton 1967 Don Cardwell 1962 Roger Craig (1st-ever NYM game)

Konnor Griffin would be the 10th teen in at least the last 125 years to make his MLB debut starting on Opening Day, joining: 1989 Ken Griffey Jr 1974 Robin Yount 1964 Tony Conigliaro 1963 Rusty Staub 1958 Vada Pinson 1951 Mickey Mantle 1944 Gene Mauch 1937 Bobby Doerr 1909 Stuffy McInnis

If Konnor Griffin starts Opening Day, he would be the: - 1st teenaged position player in an MLB game since 2018 Juan Soto - youngest (19y 336d) to play on Opening Day since 1989 Ken Griffey Jr. (19y 133d) - 1st teenager to make MLB debut on Opening Day since 1989 Griffey

Daily Statcast leaders for Day 7 (February 26) of Spring Training: Exit velocity Distance Pitch velocity Swings & misses 🔥 💪 ⭐️

There have been 5 tracked batted balls of 115+ mph so far this spring Jac Caglianone is the only player with multiple (120.2 mph double, 115.2 mph HR)

This letter written by Max Scherzer’s daughter, Brooke, to the Blue Jays, hoping they would re-sign her dad 😭😭😭😭😭 Amazing! Baseball is the best 🥺 (emaysway / IG)

Daily Statcast leaders for Day 6 (February 25) of Spring Training: Exit velocity Distance Pitch velocity Swings & misses 🔥 💪 ⭐️

Baseball is the best!!

Daily Statcast leaders for Day 5 (February 24) of Spring Training: Exit velocity Distance Pitch velocity Swings & misses 🔥 💪 ⭐️

Daily Statcast leaders for Day 4 (February 23) of Spring Training: Exit velocity Distance Pitch velocity Swings & misses 🔥 💪 ⭐️

An incredible honor for an incredible person. 💙 Bobby Witt Jr. has been named the winner of the 2025 Lou Gehrig Award! Given annually to the player who best exemplifies the giving character of Lou Gehrig, Bobby joins George Brett and Salvador Perez as the third Royal to win the Lou Gehrig Award.

Daily Statcast leaders for Day 3 (February 22) of Spring Training: Exit velocity Distance Pitch velocity Swings & misses 🔥 💪 ⭐️

Daily Statcast leaders for Day 2 (February 21) of Spring Training: Exit velocity Distance Pitch velocity Swings & misses 🔥 💪 ⭐️

Daily Statcast leaders for Day 1 (February 20) of Spring Training: Exit velocity Distance Pitch velocity Swings & misses 🔥 💪 ⭐️

REA RAY on Sunday!!!! (Rea is pronounced Ray) I love baseball

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Shohei Ohtani is projected for 48 HR & 138 pitching strikeouts per FG Depth Charts  20+ HR & 35+ pitching strikeouts in a season, MLB history: 2025 Shohei Ohtani  2023 Shohei Ohtani  2022 Shohei Ohtani  2021 Shohei Ohtani  2018 Shohei Ohtani  2023, 2021: 40+ HR & 100+ K as P

Juan Soto is projected for 38 homers and 128 walks per FG Depth Charts This would be his 6th season with 25+ HR & 125 walks Most seasons with 25+ HR & 125+ walks: Barry Bonds: 10 Babe Ruth: 10 Ted Williams: 8 Juan Soto: 5

Most walks in first 8 seasons: Ted Williams: 1,101 (1,184 games) Juan Soto: 896 (1,096 games) Looking ahead… Most walks in first 9 seasons: Ted Williams: 1,183 (1,273 games) Frank Thomas: 989 (1,236 games)

Juan Soto has the most career walks before turning… 20 years old (79 BB) 21 (187) 23 (373) 24 (508) 25 (640) 26 (769) 27 (896) 28 (896 & counting) As a reminder, he’s turned 27 in October. He set the pre-27 AND pre-28 marks in 2025, at age 26.

Juan Soto has 896 career walks that’s the most by a player before turning 28, ahead of Mickey Mantle’s 892 he already has the pre-28 record, and he’s yet to even play a game as a 27-year-old most before turning 29: 1,003 (Mantle) Again. He turned 27 in Oct!

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Baylor’s Tyce Armstrong hit 3 grand slams tonight! That ties the D1 single-game record, set by Jim LaFountain on March 24, 1976 !!! Just one team in MLB history has had 3 grand slams in a game: 8/25/11 Yankees - Russell Martin, Curtis Granderson & Robinson Canó

This will be Sandy Alcantara’s 6th career Opening Day start, tying Mario Soto for 4th-most among Dominican-born pitchers, behind only: Juan Marichal: 10 Pedro Martínez: 8 Bartolo Colon: 7

An elementary school class wrote to Ozzie Albies for recommendations for fish for their new class pet He showed up and taught them how to take care of it, set everything up and gifted them one of his own fish 🥺🥺🥺 Baseball is the best (Andreia Albies/IG)

Paul Skenes is the only pitcher with a sub-2.00 ERA and at least 20 starts in each of his first two career seasons (ER official in both leagues since 1913)

Tarik Skubal will be the first Tigers pitcher to start Opening Day in 3 straight seasons since Justin Verlander started 7 straight from 2008-14

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This will be the 3rd career Opening Day start for Garrett Crochet in his 3rd season as a starter The last pitcher to make an Opening Day start in each of his first 3 seasons in which he had at least 1 start was:   1886-1890 Matt Kilroy (1st 5) !!! h/t EliasSports

Garrett Crochet will be the 4th pitcher to start Opening Day in each of his first two seasons with Red Sox, joining: 1998-99 Pedro Martínez (did so in all 7 w/BOS) 1976-77 Ferguson Jenkins 1923-24 Howard Ehmke

Tarik Skubal & Justin Verlander for DET will be the 11th duo of *multi-time* Cy Young winners to pitch for the same team in the same year   **having already won 2+ CYA entering that season**   they’ll join ⬇️

To be clear: baseball season never ended. Thanks to all the great winter leagues, there’s been baseball to watch almost every single day since the World Series ended — trust me, I’ve watched as much of it as possible!! But now, MLB is up! And the WBC!! BASEBALL IS THE BEST !!!

Druw Jones is on the Netherlands’ roster. His father, Andruw, is managing, making them the 3rd father/son manager + player duo in a WBC (2013 Tony & Francisco Peña, 2009 Felipe & Moises Alou)

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youngest player in this WBC: 17-year-old Joseph Contreras, son of José Contreras, for Brazil. Teammate Pietro Albanez is also 17 (bday 3/15) 7 players have appeared in a WBC game before turning 18 Most recent: 16-year-old Daniel Missaki in ‘13, for BRA (on team again in ‘26!) h/t @EliasSports

The WBC rosters feature an all-time high 78 MLB All-Stars, including 36 players who were 2025 All-Stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️ h/t @MLB_PR

there are seven players on WBC rosters who were not born when the first WBC was played in 2006 🤯 h/t @MLB_PR

oldest player in this WBC: Alexei Ramírez The 44-year-old would be the oldest to appear in a WBC game oldest, as it stands now: 2006 Roger Clemens 43y 224d in 2006 oldest non-pitcher: 2023 Nelson Cruz 42y 256d

With Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge, Paul Skenes & Tarik Skubal, this will be the first WBC with all 4 of MLB’s reigning MVP & Cy Young winners And!! Nippon Professional Baseball’s reigning Sawamura award winner, Hiromi Itoh, and reigning MVPs Teruaki Sato & Liván Moinelo (for Cuba)

Nolan Arenado will play for Puerto Rico after previously playing for Team USA in the WBC, joining this list: players to appear for 2 teams at the WBC:   Adam Ottavino: ITA 09 + USA 23 Marcus Stroman: USA 17 + PUR 23 Paul Rutgers: AUS 06 + RSA 09 Bruce Chen: PAN 06, 09 + CHN 17

With No. 1 overall picks Travis Bazzana, Bryce Harper & Paul Skenes on WBC rosters, they will join this list of No. 1 overall MLB Draft picks to play in the WBC: Ken Griffey Jr. Chipper Jones Joe Mauer Adrián González Alex Rodriguez Carlos Correa h/t @MLB_PR

What a game !!

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Corbin Carroll is projected for 27 HR, 33 SB & an MLB-leading 10 3B, per Steamer Most career seasons with 25+ HR, 30+ SB & 10+ 3B: Corbin Carroll: 2 Bobby Witt Jr.: 2 Willie Mays: 2

Some really great uniform designs on display in the Serie del Caribe tonight and earlier today !!

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With Shohei Ohtani, Aaron Judge, Paul Skenes & Tarik Skubal, this will be the first WBC with all 4 reigning MVP + Cy Young winners

The Rays have been involved in 5 of the last 6 three-team trades in MLB I love baseball (h/t @jon-becker.com, and research confirms!)