Andrew Simon

The Cy Young Award races are only just beginning. At a time when the Major League leaders have made just four starts thus far, the eventual winners are only about 12-13% of the way toward a trophy-lifting campaign. Still, we have some early signs of how things are trending --

A little over a month ago, we polled a panel of MLB experts about the best hitters in baseball headed into the 2025 season. Now, though? We have actual 2025 results in the mix. That’s not to say that roughly three weeks' worth of games is going to completely change

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It’s been two weeks since our first Starting Pitcher Power Rankings of the regular season, and a lot can change in that time. While the rankings, based on a formula constructed by MLB’s data team, consider pitchers’ performance over the past 365 days, more weight is placed on recent performance.

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New York-based sluggers have maintained their stranglehold on the top of the Hitter Power Rankings. But a Midwestern star has jumped into the top three, while three new names with hot bats have broken into the top 10 since our last edition two weeks ago. Once again, the Hitter Power

Change has come to the Starting Pitcher Power Rankings. Since our last edition two weeks ago, the entire top three has turned over, and five new pitchers have joined the list. As always, the rankings are based on a formula constructed by MLB’s data team, one that considers performance over

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Can anyone dethrone Aaron Judge from atop the Hitter Power Rankings? Nobody has had any luck so far in 2025 -- Judge is now 5-for-5 as our No. 1 slugger this year, and it hasn’t been a particularly close race. But a surging slugger out in the Pacific Northwest is