Welcome to The Batting Order.

Our Monday lineup card includes Yankee bats, Strider dominance, Raffy woe, one of the most beautiful baseball cards ever made and a farewell to the great George Foreman.

Shohei wows Tom Hanks, Ichiro fires away and we dream up a midsummer classic.

It’s time for the JoeBlogs’ stream-of-consciousness baseball forecast for 2025 — with optimistic and pessimistic records, mustard thoughts, division predictions, and maybe Bob Owchinko.

Top 100 Players. 100 baseball card-back facts.

From Dante to Kalvoski — 16 (wait, 16?

Let’s go team by team through the AL and spotlight the player that each team’s season hinges on.

Plus, Ask Joe and a new game called Sweet Swings.