Szymborski’s 2025 Booms and Busts: Hitters
Szym picks his favorite breakouts and bust candidates for the 2025 season.
Red Sox
Nationals
Sun, Mar 23
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Sunday Notes: Bassitt, Blank, Kirby, and the Impact of the Inevitable ABS
Plus Brewers, D-Backs, Giants, and Padres key players, Bud Black on the Rockies' lab, Rick Rizzs's foul ball incident, Cupid Childs, facts and stats galore, and more.
Sat, Mar 22
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Effectively Wild Episode 2299: The Email Anatomy
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Meg’s positional power rankings progress and discuss why MLB is “evaluating” its Diversity Pipeline Program, then for the first time in a while answer listener emails (15:35) about how baseball would be different if swinging hard caused more serious injuries, a high-elevation league/division, inter-game penalties for frivolous end-of-game […].
Fri, Mar 21
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RosterResource Chat – 3/21/25
Jason Martinez and Jon Becker answer questions related to projected rosters and playing time, position battles, payroll, and more.
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2025 Positional Power Rankings: Designated Hitter
For some teams, designated hitter is a position, to be filled by a specific type of player with specific attributes, just like shortstop or center field.
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Eric Longenhagen Prospects Chat: 3/21/25
Come discuss prospects with our backfield-prowling prospect writer.
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The Rangers and Braves Apply Some Late Patches to Their Rosters
Two division favorites have turned to previously unsigned veterans Patrick Corbin, James McCann, Craig Kimbrel, and Alex Verdugo to weather injuries.
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2025 Positional Power Rankings: Right Field
Right field is stuffed to the gills with All-Stars, MVPs, Rookies of the Year, and young stars on the rise.
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Dylan Cease Addresses His January 2017 FanGraphs Scouting Report
The San Diego Padres right-hander has outperformed his early-career projections.
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