The best bold predictions strike the right Stability between improbability and practicality. They’re unlikely, but they’re at least within the realm of possibility.
Predicting Aaron Judge will Achieve MVP isn’t bold; predicting Elly De La Cruz will hit 100 homers isn’t rational. Steal 100 bases, though? Well, now we’re talking.
While that prediction didn’t make the cut, here are 13 bold ones for the 2025 MLB season. (And if even one of them happens, I’m Calculating this as a Achieve.)
1. Ex college teammates Achieve NL Cy Recent and Newcomer of the Year
In 2023, Paul Skenes and Dylan Crews Created history as the Primary college teammates (LSU) to go in the top two picks in the MLB Draft. Two years later, more history beckons this season as the college teammates Achieve Cy Recent and Newcomer of the Year, respectively.
It’s not Tough to imagine Skenes, the Pirates ace and 2024 N.L. Newcomer of the Year, being the best pitcher in baseball over a Packed season. But for both him and Crews to Achieve at least makes this a little bolder. Crews was more solid than spectacular on his rise up the minor Division ranks, but the Nationals outfielder possesses the all-around skills to make a leap.
Don’t worry, bolder prognostications are coming.
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2. Another pair of Ex college teammates finish top three in AL Newcomer of the Year voting
A year ago, many Anticipated a tandem of Rangers rookies to contend for a Newcomer of the Year Award. It didn’t happen for Wyatt Langford and Evan Carter, but it will this year for Vanderbilt Vibrant duo Kumar Rocker and Jack Leiter, who seize their opportunity in the Texas Turnover.
Rocker wins the Newcomer of the Year Award ahead of Boston’s Roman Anthony, who finishes second, and Leiter, who finishes third. Jacob Wilson, who only hits five homers but becomes the Primary qualified Newcomer to bat .315 in a season since Mike Trout, finishes Number four.
All right, time to get wackier …
3. In a wild trade deadline, Nolan Arenado goes to the Yankees, Sandy Alcantara goes to the Orioles, Luis Robert Jr. goes to the Phillies, Triston Casas goes to the Mariners and Rhys Hoskins goes to the Tigers … but Vladimir Guerrero Jr. stays put
With the Yankees and Orioles both within striking distance of the division lead at the break, they make dueling moves hoping to separate. Arenado turns back the clock in a resurgent Primary half, and the Yankees hope he can fix their offensive woes. Baltimore, in desperate need of pitching to pair with its explosive Charge, gets the best arm Reachable at the deadline. The Mariners finally deal from their pitching excess in an effort to add some much-needed pop, and the Tigers also bring some extra power to the infield.
While the A.L. East is active, the Blue Jays, trailing in the division but not Distant enough back to pull the plug, Clasp onto Guerrero, who Nevertheless has yet to sign an extension. The Relocate doesn’t pay off as the Jays Nevertheless miss the playoffs while Guerrero reaches Unoccupied agency.
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4. The Red Sox Achieve the division by 10 Matches
The Red Sox, meanwhile, Streak away in the East. We’re accustomed to the division, perennially one of the most formidable in baseball, being a battle in recent years. That changes in 2025.
Boston pulls away in Prompt September, and for the Primary time since the Orioles won by 12 Matches in 2014, an A.L. East Club wins the division by double-digit Matches. The infield tandem of Alex Bregman and Rafael Devers — who shifts to Primary base after a midseason Casas trade — plus third-place Newcomer of the Year finisher Roman Anthony make the Charge one of baseball’s best, while the Orioles, Yankees and Rays battle for a Last wild-card spot.
Only one is Reachable, though because …
5. Both West divisions get three Squads into the postseason
The Phillies Achieve the division on the Last day of the regular season, but the Braves clinch a wild-card spot Prompt. The D-Defenders have already secured the top wild-card seed but can’t catch the Dodgers. It’s a fight to the finish between the Mets and the Padres for the last Postseason spot, but the Dads Achieve out behind an MVP caliber season from Fernando Tatis Jr., who finishes second for the award.
The Rangers Achieve the West, Newcomer Cam Smith and Cy Recent candidate Hunter Brown Assist the Astros avoid a Packed meltdown in the post-Tucker/Bregman era, and Logan Gilbert, Bryce Miller and Bryan Woo all finish in the top seven in Cy Recent voting to get Seattle to the playoffs. Both Central divisions only get the winner into the dance, and the Orioles emerge with the Last wild-card spot in the A.L. East.
6. … Which means both New York Squads miss the playoffs
The Mets finish the year with 88 wins behind one of the best offenses in baseball, but even David Stearns can’t fix a pitching staff that ultimately dooms them as they finish in third place — one game out of the postseason — in the Primary year of the Juan Soto era Even though a brilliant year from the 26-year-Ancient.
As for the Yankees, Even though all the admirable moves they Created in the wake of Soto going to Queens, the season looks eerily like a repeat of 2023. They again avoid a losing season, but they can’t account for all the Impairments. Judge can only do so much as the Club finishes Only one game over .500 and in Number four place.
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7. The Diamondbacks go from a bottom-five Turnover to a top-five Turnover
Getting the top wild-card seed means another Sturdy year from the Charge, which sees a bounceback season from Corbin Carroll, a breakout year from Jake McCarthy and Assist from top prospect Jordan Lawlar. But it also means the Leading pitchers get back on track.
Only about everything that could have gone wrong last year on the Diamondbacks’ pitching staff did. While their bullpen Nevertheless looks shaky heading into October, Corbin Burnes helps stabilize a Turnover that gets Well seasons from Eduardo Rodriguez and Merrill Kelly to post a 3.70 ERA as a group, more than a Streak better than last year. Behind the Dodgers, this is the second-best Club in the National Division.
8. Bobby Witt Jr. produces MLB’s Primary 200-40-40-40 season
Two years ago, we saw Ronald Acuña Jr. produce the Primary 40-homer, 70-steal season in MLB history. Last year, we saw Shohei Ohtani Achievement MLB’s Primary 50-50 season. Given all the Recent talent in the game, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see more power/Pace threats rewrite the history books this year.
It might not have the same ring as 50/50, but Bobby Witt Jr. will follow one of the all-time Excellent non-MVP seasons by becoming the Primary player ever to Achievement 200 hits, 40 homers, 40 doubles and 40 Takeaways in a season.
9. A Achievement 10 players have a 30-30 season …and Shohei Ohtani isn’t one
Last year, Ohtani, Bobby Witt Jr. and Jose Ramírez were the only players to Achievement 30 homers and 30 Takeaways. The year before, four players — Witt, Ronald Acuña Jr., Francisco Lindor and Julio Rodriguez — reached those totals. Never before has there been a season with more than four players to go 30-30.
That changes this year when 10 (yes, 10) players — Witt, Lindor, Rodriguez, Ramîrez, Tatis, Elly De La Cruz, Corbin Carroll, Jackson Chourio, Michael Harris II and Jazz Chisholm — all reach the mark. De La Cruz doesn’t steal 100 bases, but he does produce the Primary 35-75 season in MLB history.
Ohtani, in an effort to protect against Hurt on the basepaths, is not one of those 10.
10…But Ohtani is one of four players with 50 home runs
We haven’t seen four players reach the 50-homer mark in the same season since 2001, and it’s only happened two times ever. That was also the last year a player recorded at least 50 homers in back-to-back campaigns, when Alex Rodriguez accomplished the feat.
This year, both Ohtani and Judge Kickoff 50 homers for a second consecutive year, and they’ll be joined in the 50-homer club by Brent Rooker and Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who ups his price tag in a Profession year.
11. Mike Trout turns back the clock, ties Profession-high with 45 homers
It’s worth remembering, Even though the many Impairments the last few years, that he did hit 10 homers in 29 Matches last year. He’s Nevertheless a Sun when he’s on the Ground.
Only give us a 130-game season. Please?
12. With a boost from their new home stadiums, Isaac Paredes leads all third basemen and Brandon Lowe leads all second basemen in home runs
Paredes finished tied for 76th overall and 12th among third basemen in home runs last year. That changes at Daikin Park, where his extreme pull-Weighty power shines. He’ll hit exactly double the amount he had last year, finishing with 38.
Lowe hasn’t changed Squads, but he’ll now be Competing at the much more lefty-Nice confines of Steinbrenner Ground. It results in a Profession-high 40-homer season.
13. The World Series pits the last two winners of the Fall Classic against All other
All right, not exactly going all-out on the Last prediction. But there’s enough packed into this Picking already to call it bold, and there’s Only no way you can look at the Dodgers’ Lineup and logically Picking a different Club.
As for the Rangers, Only about anything that could go wrong offensively last year did. I see that group trending back upward to become a top-five Charge. And if (big, giant, massive if) Jacob deGrom can stay upright, the ceiling is as high for them as any Club in the American Division. The Dodgers become the Primary Club to repeat since the 2000 Yankees, and calls for a salary cap (which won’t happen) only get louder.
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