MLB Trends: Kyle Schwarber and Brady Singer take lefties, plus stolen bases rapidly grow in early 2025

We are in about three weeks in the regular season of the MLB 2025, that approximately when the sizes of the sample cease to be so small, but also when you are still free to say: “This is still early.” Because it’s still early. So, so early. If the season 162 games was a game of nine Inning, now there would be two outs in the lower part of the first half. This is a long season, guys. A very long season.

And yet, there are several things that we can shine with a small baseball that was played. There are now three trends that should be known for one day in three weeks in the new season.

Schwarber Leo of the destroyer

It is noteworthy how many instruments are currently at their disposal of teams and players. The team literally has laboratories equipped with trained physicists to help their jugs and attackers improve. “The average player is becoming a star,” is sexy, although this is not always what the teams pursue. If there is a way to make players better than 2% better, they are looking for it. Each small matters.

The development of players is not limited to young players. Improving the veteran is also qualified as the development of players (See: Tommy Edman and Doders), and one of the most significant recent stories of the success of the development of veterans-Kail Schwarber against the left-handed jug. After the Slargger Phillis will now be completely dangerous against the jugs from the same jug.

In the last Tuesday, Schwarber launched this absolute Nuke with the ruling NL Cy Young Chris Sale. It was both the farthest (462 feet), and the strongest blow (the speed of 116.7 miles per hour), the sale of the home -randa allowed the left in his career.

Having entered the game on Tuesday evening, Schwarber was 9 to 21 (.429) with three Homers against left-handed people this year, which is as many homes, as against rights, almost half of the bats. Without a doubt, this is a tiny example, but the improvement of Schwarber against the left leaves a few years later. This is not limited to 2025. Here are the numbers:

The time of Schwarber will sit against hard left -handed people and even mediocre leftists for several nights. Now he is the composition of every game. And he does not just keep his own against the left; He causes serious damage against him. Schwarber closed this hole in his game. How? He entered the laboratory and began work. From the Philadelphia Inquirer in June last year:

“Left corners, left-handed hand, left-hand-what he can face left-handed, the easier it will be,” said Long, coach Fillis Kevin). “My assistant was Pat Rossler at that time. He literally pulled Schwarber every day, and he said: “Hey, let’s go with 50 breaks of balls from the car.” So, he did it every day.

“So, we just pushed one left -handed one after another, and he became better and better.”

Schwarber still performs preliminary preparation for the lefties, even when the opposite starter of this night is right. It sounds simple, right? Click in a cage against the pitching that the left -hander imitates. Except that these days, computing machines can show the attacker of different corners of the hands, different forms of step, etc. This is not an old Mike’s old machine, which again and again delivers heights from the same place.

Now 32 years, Schwarber and Phillis deserve large signs for improving something, which was a real weakness at the beginning of his career, and turning it into force. He moved from a player who was outside the composition against the left to someone, whom Phillis wants on a plate against a left -handed place in a large place. His power is huge, among the best in the game, and now it is also suitable for left -handed people.

The singer reduces left -handed people

I was among the skeptics when the Reds acquired Penger Brady’s right -handedness in Jonathan of India, trading with the royal family. The singer is a far-fetched starter in the middle of the company, although he had problems with home wound and problems with left-handed people throughout his career. The transition from the Kaufman stadium to Homer-Baypny Great American Ball Park seemed as if he would go badly.

Three are launched in his career in the Reds, Singer has 3.18 era in 17 taxes, and he was allowed three runes and only one home racket in 12 servings on his new home field. This includes the release of seven inconing into the rangers in his home debut as red.

“He is nasty. Faced with him, he is rude, ”said Reds Cold Jose Trevino after the Singer’s Reds debut (through sports). “He has unpleasant things, and just adding such flights it really helps his arsenal.”

The singer threw 16 cutters against the Rangers, the first 16 cutters, which he threw like a large league. He threw 14 Rezaks in the second start and nine in his third start. In general, he throws his new step 15% of the time. The step models evaluate the cutter as the best sentence, but this is another tool in the barn, and he helped the singer against left -handed people at the beginning.

Tiny, tiny sample. Please do not read it as “the singer found out the left -handed person.” It is rather a “singer who is now abandoning a cutter, and this is a new weapon that he can use against left -handed people.” Maybe he works in the long run, and the Singer takes the next step, or maybe not, and he must return to the drawing board. Super Duper Early Return to the Rezak promises.

Indeed, the advantage of the cutter is not so much the quality of the field. The fact is that this allows him to retreat a little from Fastball and Pastball with a four network, two left -handed people were crushed in the past. A cutting is another look, and another striker with wrinkles must respect, and this means that the singer can leave less from the fastballs that were destroyed. Everything that makes the attackers to guess is positive.

Whenever the new field comes out of spring training and in the regular season, it is worth noting. Many jugs try many new fields in March, but only a few lead it on the opening day. The singer, Rezak, made a reduction and is now a legitimate part of his arsenal with a 15% level of use. Singer’s loan and red for invented a way to improve his game.

Stolen bases continue to rise

Now that the season had a chance to breathe a bit, the speed of the Home -Ran League (1.07 hours/9) was settled almost at the time where he was three weeks later last season (1.05 hours/9), although ordinary old basic hits are declining. The average value of the league on the balls in the game is 0.280 at the beginning. For three weeks last year it was 0.291. This means less single, doubleting and three.

Home runs are static, and basic hits do not work. What happened is the stolen bases. This is the 3rd year with larger bases and a restriction from the disconnection of the jug, two rules that encourage stolen bases and had the desired influence. The league stole 2486 bases in 2022, last season with old rules. This number jumped to 3503 in 2023 and 3617 in 2024. Here are the numbers for 2025:

The stolen base rate is the number of attempts to theft for a stolen basic opportunity, with a stolen basic possibility, defined as a runner in the first or second place with the next base, unoccupied. In 2022, in the last year with the old rules, the League tried to steal 5.0% of the stolen basic capabilities. The coefficient of attempts jumped out with new rules.

At the beginning of this year, the stolen bases are trying to rise from the same point over the past two seasons – since 2024 it has grown by more than one full percentage! – While success levels are more or less kept sustainable. The volume has increased without efficiency. In fact, the teams realized that they could steal even more than they were already, so they stole the base attempts.

In addition, look at the level of stolen attempt in the first three weeks compared to the full season. In 2023 and 2024, the indicator of attempts at the full season was higher than in the first three weeks, which makes sense. At the beginning of the season it is cold, often rainy, which means a soft pole that is not suitable for running. As soon as the weather heats up, the commands run even more. In 2025, we may have an 8% rate!

Due to the fact that the base base, stolen databases, acquire additional importance. If you cannot get these additional 90 feet per one, you must produce them with your feet. Stolen bases are one of the most exciting plays in the game. More the better. Now, if the league could find a way to create more single, doubleting and three, without sacrificing thefts, we would really be in business.