Sarah Langs

Live Like Lou Supporting families affected by ALS, funding ALS research to find treatments or cures for Lou Gehrig’s disease, and honoring Lou Gehrig’s legacy.

Or on their website !

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Highest strikeout rate in second half, min 25 IP:

Mason Miller: 51.1%
Devin Williams: 39.3%
Jeremiah Estrada: 38.4%
Andrew Kittredge: 38.3%
Edwin Diaz: 38.1%

In baseball, we call this a wheeeeeeeeee!

Highest swing and miss rate induced, 2025 qualified pitchers:

Dylan Cease: 33.4%
Tarik Skubal: 32.5%
Jesús Luzardo: 30.8%
Cristopher Sánchez: 30.4%

Dale Murphy just threw out the first pitch for Estrellas!!

He played for them early in his career

It’s LIDOM doubleheader day!! Starting momentarily on MLB dot tv!!

11 winter ball games on MLB dot tv today / tonight between LIDOM and LMP!

Lineups for early LIDOM games ⬇️

in his 6 top-5 MVP seasons combined (2017-18, ‘20, ‘22, ‘24-‘25), José Ramírez has:

- 431 extra-base hits, 21 more than any other player in those szns

- 1,733 total bases, 2nd to Judge (1,769)

- 563 RBI, 2nd (Judge 592)

- 166 SB, 2nd (Trea Turner 183)

- 430 K, fewest among 37 plyrs w/110+ HR

The best to never win MVP? Why that honor belongs to José Ramírez José Ramírez is one of the best players in baseball. There’s no question about that after the career he’s built. He’s a seven-time All-Star and six-time Silver Slugger Award winner. There’s just one p...

José Ramírez now has 4 top-3 MVP finishes, the most of any player to not win MVP

(…yet)

On his place in MVP voting history and what he’s accomplished in his career thus far ⬇️

www.mlb.com/news/why-jos...

Most OAA since start of 2024:

Bobby Witt Jr.: 40
Pete Crow-Armstrong: 37
Jacob Young: 35
Andrés Giménez: 32
Mauricio Dubón: 29

Lowest strikeout rate since start of 2024, min 800 PA:

Luis Arraez: 3.7%
Nico Hoerner: 8.9%
Steven Kwan: 9.0%
Ernie Clement: 9.8%
Mookie Betts: 10.6%
José Ramírez: 11.5%
Mauricio Dubón: 11.7%

Baseball time !!

LIDOM and LMP coming up on MLB dot tv!

LIDOM lineups ⬇️

LIDOM coming up at 6p & 630p et! MLB dot tv!

Most SB from July 25 onward (Naylor’s SEA debut):

Juan Soto: 25
Jazz Chisholm Jr.: 21
Josh Naylor: 19
Corbin Carroll: 19

🚨November 15 home run at Citi Field 🚨

112.1 mph !

20,057 people at Citi Field for the Dominican winter ball All-Stars against the Puerto Rican winter ball All-Stars

In the middle of November

Baseball is the BEST !!

Baseball is SO lucky to have Mookie Betts

There were 6 BBWAA award winners this who won a BBWAA award last year (Murphy, Vogt, Skubal, Skenes, Ohtani, Judge)

That’s 4 more BBWAA award winners in a year who won a BBWAA award the year prior than in any other season

h/t @EliasSports

there have been 9 years where BOTH MVPs had previously won ROY, too:

2025: Ohtani/Judge
2024: Ohtani/Judge
2023: Ohtani/Acuña
2021: Ohtani/Harper
2019: Trout/Bellinger
2016: Trout/Bryant
2011: Verlander/Braun
2008: Pedroia/Pujols
1972: Allen/Bench

This is the first season where both MVPs were repeats from the previous year

seasons where both MVPs had already won one previously (since BBWAA began voting in 1931):

2025 Shohei Ohtani (4th), Aaron Judge (3rd)
2024 Shohei Ohtani (3rd), Aaron Judge (2nd)
1955 Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella (3rd for each)

There have been 24 unanimous MVPs awarded (since BBWAA began voting in 1931)

Since 2000:

2025 Shohei Ohtani
2024 Shohei Ohtani 
2024 Aaron Judge 
2023 Ronald Acuña Jr.
2023 Shohei Ohtani
2021 Shohei Ohtani
2015 Bryce Harper
2014 Mike Trout
2009 Albert Pujols
2002 Barry Bonds

players to win multiple MVPs with Yankees (since BBWAA began voting in 1931):

Aaron Judge (3)
Mickey Mantle (3)
Yogi Berra (3)
Joe DiMaggio (3)
Alex Rodriguez 
Roger Maris

Yankees players have won 23 MVPs (since BBWAA began voting in 1931), most of any team

→ 5 more than STL, 18

Shohei Ohtani has finished first or second in the past five MVP elections, which ties the record shared by Barry Bonds and Mike Trout

won MVP + WS/LCS MVP same year:

2025 Shohei Ohtani
2010 Josh Hamilton
1980 Mike Schmidt 
1979 Willie Stargell
1973 Reggie Jackson 
1966 Frank Robinsonn
1963 Sandy Koufax

most MVP Awards (since BBWAA began voting in 1931):
 
Barry Bonds: 7
Shohei Ohtani: 4
Aaron Judge: 3
Mike Trout: 3
Albert Pujols: 3
Alex Rodriguez: 3
Mike Schmidt: 3
Mickey Mantle: 3
Yogi Berra: 3
Roy Campanella: 3
Stan Musial: 3
Joe DiMaggio: 3
Jimmie Foxx: 3

1976 Joe Morgan
1975 Joe Morgan
1973 Reggie Jackson
1970 Boog Powell

players to win the WS & MVP in the same year in divisional era (1969):

2025 Shohei Ohtani
2024 Shohei Ohtani 
2018 Mookie Betts
2017 Jose Altuve
2016 Kris Bryant
2012 Buster Posey
1988 Kirk Gibson
1984 Willie Hernandez
1983 Cal Ripken Jr.
1980 Mike Schmidt
1979 Willie Stargell

won a World Series and an MVP in the same season, multiple times:
 
Joe DiMaggio: 1939, 1941, 1947
Shohei Ohtani: 2024, 2025
Joe Morgan: 1975, 1976
Mickey Mantle: 1956, 1962