by AAA Sports
Thursday, May 29, 2025Best Teams Hit Mid-Season Stride --
Los Angeles Dodgers (34-22) ~ As everyone expected, the Los Angeles Dodgers are one of the top teams in baseball again this season after winning the World Series in 2024 (last season.) The Dodgers improved their pitching group and have a really good lineup for the second year in a row. Los Angeles is on top of the NL West a third into this year. Like we said last month, 'they are the favorites to win the World Series this year and we can see exactly why.'
New York Yankees (35-20) ~ With an even better record than the Dodgers, New York is also one of the favorites to win the World Series this season. That's also expected as the Yankees were the team that played against Los Angeles in last year's final. New York has really good hitting and Aaron Judge is on pace for another record breaking season. Max Fried has also been the best free agent signing of any team so far.
Detroit Tigers (37-20) ~ Surprising to some. Unsurprising to others. The Tigers actually have the best record in the whole MLB right now. They are scoring a lot of runs each game -- definitely helping the young star studded pitching group that Detroit has. Tarik Skubal is the front runner for AL Cy Young right now and if the Tigers can keep pitching strong behind him, they will be back into the playoffs and as one of the top seeds.
Philadelphia Phillies (36-20) ~ In the loaded NL East Division, Philadelphia is the top team in the group right now. Trae Turner is hitting the ball terrifically this year and Kyle Schwarber is lighting it up again with the home runs. What's different though? Schwarber isn't getting out as often which will help Philadelphia out a lot in the long run. Hitting well has been the name of the game and what has worked for the Phillies this year.
Top Pitchers So Far --
Max Fried ~ 7-0 going into Friday's start, Max Fried has the best statistics of any pitcher in the Major League's right now. There hasn't been any better time than now to play on him to win the Cy Young award in the American League, even with Skubal close behind. He has better stats and is on probably a more talented team than Skubal -- that could lead to more wins and better final statistics.
Tarik Skubal ~ Like we talked about when talking about Max Fried, Skubal is the favorite to win the top pitcher in the American League award. He's been really good and even better than really good in his last start when he pitched nine innings and allowed zero runs. He struck out 13 batters in that game and had only 94 pitches thrown at the end of the game. That's unheard of.
Kodai Senga ~ Senga has been terrific this season. He's the current leader in earned run average in the National League and has been pitching at the top of his game all season long. The Mets top pitching option doesn't strike out batters at the rate that he would want to be doing so at. He does the little things and does what it takes to get batters out though.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto ~ Even though Yamamoto is on the maybe the top team in baseball and has an earned run average of less than 2.0, he's still not the favorite to win the Cy Young award in the National League. But, if things go the way that they have, Yamamoto will probably win that award at the end of the season. It just depends if Skenes stays in Pittsburgh or not.
Top Hitters So Far --
Aaron Judge ~ The home runs aren't as 'good' as Judge would like because he wants to be first in that too. But, Judge is having an all-time season right now. He's the league leader in average leading by a lot compared to the next best. He also leads the league in hits and is second in runs scored. He is almost guaranteed to win the MVP in the American League.
Shohei Ohtani ~ Ohtani missed some games because of the birth of his new-born. He also hasn't been getting too much help from the bottom of the order with getting runners on base that would lead to more runs batted in. But, Ohtani is the league leader in home runs right now and he continues to prove how good he is game after game. He's the favorite to win the MVP in the National League.
Freddie Freeman ~ Second to just Aaron Judge in the batting average category this season, Freddie Freeman is having himself another terrific year. He's not hitting the ball with too much power. But, that doesn't matter when he can get on base as well as anyone in the history of the game of baseball. He can display power too in big spots if called upon.
James Wood ~ A little bit of a deeper pull here. But, James Wood is having a really good season for the Washington Nationals. He has 15 hit home runs this season and has a really solid batting average too. Wood has definitely been the best hitter on his team and is still just 22 years old. There's a lot of time to improve on his really good play.
