Thursday celebrated two weeks since the official opening day in the 2025 season of the Higher Baseball League, which means that we still have a real game truck. The cubs played 15 games, while 15 teams played 12 with all the others. No team even played 10% of their games.
In general, we know too much about baseball to start a panic after such a short schedule. During the season, there are so many tides and tides. For example, Doders began 8-0, but then lost four of the next five games. The brewers were 0-4 with a differential -30, and then suddenly became hot. Such things happen all the time.
Nevertheless, when it is so early, everything is intensifying for every fan base, which was waiting throughout the off -season and, according to the visible, was excited by the beginning of the season. Part of the pleasure from being a fan becomes a terrible and even excessive implementation at the time of one of 162 games.
As in the case of any season, we obviously saw how several teams came out of the very disappointing starts. Let’s run through them with a panic meter.
The panic counter is scaled 0-10, and 0-do not care in the world, and 10-mass hysteria. The side 0-4 causes concern, while 6-10 side causes concern in the direction of panic. 5 will be the central point between “worthy care” and “little anxiety”.
Record: 3-9
What else could go wrong? They started 0-7 on a really difficult trip to San Diego and Los Angeles that they do not have to do it again. Ronald Akunya is the youngest and Spencer Straider have not yet returned from serious injuries. Matt Olson beats. From the point of view of the presentation, Chris Sale and Reynaldo Lopez received a blow.
Enough alreadyright?
Throughout this, Braves won three out of five and just took a series from Phillis.
Panic counter: 2
I experienced a desire to go with 1. Of course, this stinks in order to already have a shortage of five games, but 150 games are left in the schedule. They were 10.5 in June 2022 and still won the division. This team is probably not as good as this iteration, but it has much more time and less than half of the deficit. Plus, there are three places in wild maps.
I see how to be quite annoyed as a fan. I see how excited about starting 0-7 if you are Mets or Phillies or even a nationals fan.
But, looking at the situation from the outside, there is no real reason for this Braves team. 3-9 stretching in mid-June will raise the eyebrow, but will not cause panic. We do not need to do this differently.
Record: 4-9
After the victory in the game in Texas against the current champion-rangers on August 17 last season, the Gemini were only in two games in the Central Al and held in second place in the wild map of al-al. They will go 12-27 to the end of the journey, a miserable assessment, which was only better than White Sox and angels among all 30 teams.
The twins rose right where they stopped. They won two out of three against the motionless White Sox and went 2-8 in their other games. Royce Lewis will suffer (again), while Byron Bakston and Carlos Correa are fighting. The crime collectively falls at 0.200 (.199), and no one in the team even got at 0.275 in this small sample (273 Harrison Bader and .270 Matt Walner .270).
Pablo Lopez and Joe Ryan were magnificent, but the rest of the rotation was terrible. And now Lopez is in the damaged list.
The next three teams in the graphics? Tigers, mes and brave.
Panic counter: 2
I was below the twins than the majority in the season. I know that they have talent, but there is a lot of dispersion along with injuries and simply inconsistent players. The depth of the organization from the point of view of Mayors and the upper levels of minors is also not very large.
It is possible that the twins are heated in the coming weeks. In the end, last season they were 7-13 to 20 games, and then tore off 12 wins in a row. A little later, The Lost Seven in a row, before winning eight out of 10. Maybe this season they will also be such videos. These are only 3.5 games from the first in the unit, which believes that they are very competitive.
For me, my biggest problems remain those that I had when the twins were 0-0. The record itself does not ride much.
Record: 5-8
In some projection systems, the sailors were a favorite to win Al West this season. At a minimum, they were in the playoffs, especially in the race with three teams for the AL West title with Astros (obvious) and rangers.
Until now, sailors are already in three games under 0,500 with a differential -15. The crime is an average of 3.38 run per game, reaching .200/.303/.333. They crossed out 116 times in 13 games, on average almost nine per game. They have power and go for walks, but this low average vatin and high level of departure means that sailors have a very low margin for error in the attack. Meanwhile, as it is supposed, rotation is their hallmark, and although Logan Gilbert and Luis Castillo were good, Bryce Miller was bad, like the replacement of George Kirby (who has a shoulder injury), Luis F. Castillo.
Panic counter: 4
I know very well that they are at a distance from the first place, and everything can easily turn over one week, but there are serious concerns here. Firstly, the violation has “the same old, the same old” energy. This is mainly what we expected in the season, and this means that this is just a predecessor for what can bring the whole season. In addition, Kirby’s injury on his shoulder is incredibly restless, and there is a chance that Miller is regressing.
I do not think that the sailors will be terrible or something like that, but there is a real probability that A and the Angels have made a profit, and the sailors are closer to the last place than primarily this season.
Record: 5-8
The front -office Mike Elias made one of the most radical restorations in the history of MLB. Ivolgi lost 115 games in 2018, 108 in 2019, received a deferment from the full season in 2020, and then lost 110 in 2021. The rationale here was pain to finish. When in 2023 the anioli broke through with 101 victories, the fruits of labor were magnificent.
After two seasons of the play -off with zero victories in the play -off, local residents can become a little restless. More than ten years have passed since the last victory of the post -zon Doggon! In addition, the anioli got stuck in one of the strongest divisions in baseball, and they are in three games under 0,500, having lost six of their last eight games.
They had problems with injuries, and they cannot be helped, but the depth of rotation was a problem that goes to the last off -season, and Elias still did not do enough to fix it. With Kail Brady and Tyler Wells, as you know, in the offseason – Grayson Rodriguez and Zach Eflin joined them in the damaged list. Trevor Rogers is also there, and not that he helped last year, when health.
The result is a rotation with four people at present, consisting of Dean Kremer, Tomuyuki Sugano, Keyda Ovich and 41-year-old Charlie Morton.
Ivolga has a talented attack, and they will hit better as soon as Gunnar Henderson will return. There are several living hands in the GRDs. This is a rotation, although …
Panic counter: 3
It is still too early to push them to higher, although I thought about five or even six out of circumstances. The reason I retreated? None of the four four teams in the East looked prepared for this thing, that is, I still think that the Ivolgi who won the al -Vostok is a realistic result, and this means that the season will be successful. It would also make 5-8 records on April 11 a distant and irrelevant memory.
I just can’t overcome how well Elias built the positional side of the organization, comparing to almost eliminate the starting presentation. This will be a problem throughout the season, and therefore there is a little anxiety, approaching the level of panic.
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