The 2025 Major League Baseball season has been quite eventful thus far. We are about two-thirds through the long campaign. Here are two things I like thus far and one thing I do not like so much
I have come to the realization that Jose Ramirez is a Hall of Famer. Truly one of the game’s most underrated players, the Cleveland Guardian star is, once again, doing it all. Ramirez hits for average, he hits for power and he plays a strong third base. The seven-time all-star is a .280 lifetime hitter, has 273 homers and 272 stolen bases and he won’t be 33 until September. The Guardians season has been a big disappointment, but Ramirez is one of the best in the game.
I like watching Tarik Skubal pitch. He and the Detroit Tigers are in first place and are blowing away the competition in the rest of the AL Central. Over the last two seasons, Skubal is 29-7 and helped push the Tigers to a remarkable playoff run in 2024.
Another postseason run is a certainty, and after a long rebuilding process, it’s nice to see Tigers fans rewarded.
One thing I dislike is the decline of the starting pitcher. In my youth, complete games by starting pitchers happened on a daily basis. In the entire league in 2025, there have been 23 complete games. Baseball has some outstanding pitchers, like Skubal, Paul Skenes and the Phillies Zack Wheeler. But it’s beginning to feel like a major accomplishment if a pitcher is allowed to go past the fifth inning. I’d like to see MLB value and reward starting pitching. It could limit the number of relievers a team can use in a game.
It could implement a rule, where a team loses the designated hitter when a pitcher is removed.
Baseball was a better game when pitchers were allowed to pitch a game, not just half of it.
