Kerry Miller

College Football Writer at Bleacher Report

Dad. Sportswriter for Bleacher Report. Co-host of the Unnamed Bracketology Podcast. Cigar aficionado. Numbers geek. Corgi lover. KerranceJames at Gmail

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1 Fun Fact to Know About Every MLB Team Thus Far in 2025

1 week ago | bleacherreport.com | Kerry Miller

Though we are still a few weeks away from Memorial Day and the unofficial beginning of being allowed to pay attention to the standings, 35-ish games is more than enough to dive into some fun facts and stats about the 2025 MLB season. All 30 of these "fun" facts are intended to in fact be fun-read: positive-information about the team in question.
Paul Goldschmidt, Robert Suarez and 8 Potential Surprise MLB Trade Candidates

1 week ago | bleacherreport.com | Kerry Miller

Though the 2025 MLB trade deadline is nearly three months away, you may already be well-acquainted with the usual suspects to be dealt. We've been speculating for a while now about where the likes of Luis Robert Jr., Sandy Alcantara and Ryan Helsley might land this summer. How about some surprise trade candidates, though? We won't waste your time with any sort of nonsensical Aaron Judge or Juan Soto speculations.
Patience or Panic on All 30 MLB Teams' Biggest Weakness

1 week ago | bleacherreport.com | Kerry Miller

The window for putting "but it's still early" asterisks on Major League Baseball's slow starters in 2025 is just about closed, and now it's time to to start thinking about hitting the proverbial panic button on burgeoning weaknesses. That doesn't mean the hitters presently scuffling below the Mendoza Line or the pitchers with four-digit ERAs are destined to remain there, but we can stop chalking every oddity up to a small sample size. For each of the 30 teams, we've identified a major weakness.
Ranking Every MLB Team's Starting 9 After 1st Month of 2025 Season

2 weeks ago | bleacherreport.com | Kerry Miller

With every MLB team having played at least 28 games at this point, we are officially more than one-sixth of the way through 2025's baseball marathon. While that's still relatively early in the campaign, the league's highest scoring offense (Chicago Cubs) has already racked up nearly twice as many runs as the lowest-scoring bunch (Texas Rangers). How do the 30 lineups, well, line up from top to bottom thus far?
Chris Sale, Willy Adames and MLB's Biggest Busts of 1st Month of 2025

2 weeks ago | bleacherreport.com | Kerry Miller

2025 Stats: .205/.272/.268, 1 HR, 14 RBIAt 18-10 and battling for first place in the NL West, the San Francisco Giants have drastically exceeded expectations thus far. They had a preseason win total line of 80.5, and even that felt a bit optimistic for what was supposed to be the buffer of sorts between the lowly Rockies and the division's trio of legitimate contenders.
Updated 2025 MLB MVP, Cy Young, Rookie of the Year Odds and Picks

2 weeks ago | bleacherreport.com | Kerry Miller

At this time one year ago, eventual NL Cy Young winner Chris Sale was out to a bit of a sluggish start, AL MVP Aaron Judge was batting below .200 and NL Rookie of the Year Paul Skenes was still dazzling Triple-A crowds. 'Twas a great reminder that full-season awards are neither won nor lost in April.
Way-Too-Early 2025 MLB Playoff and World Series Predictions

2 weeks ago | bleacherreport.com | Kerry Miller

As the old saying goes in MLB, you can't win a pennant in April, but you sure can lose one. While both the Colorado Rockies and Chicago White Sox may have already exactly that, there's a fierce battle between everyone else now that we're ankles deep into the 2025 campaign. Our original "way-too-early" predictions published on Halloween morning after the Los Angeles Dodgers finished off the New York Yankees in the 2024 World Series. They're not looking bad at all thus far.
Way-Too-Early 2025 MLB Playoff and World Series Predictions

2 weeks ago | ourcommunitynow.com | Kerry Miller

National League East Biggest Positive Surprise : Miami isn't half bad? It feels every bit as smoke and mirrors-y as it did in 2023 when they snuck into the postseason with a negative-57 run differential, but raise your hand if your preseason predictions had Miami sitting two games ahead of Atlanta 23 games into the season.
Ideal Landing Spots for MLB's Top 8 Trade Targets

3 weeks ago | bleacherreport.com | Kerry Miller

There have been a few intriguing trades already in this 2025 Major League Baseball season. With essentially an entire starting rotation on the IL, Milwaukee acquired Quinn Priester from Boston two weeks ago, and he immediately blossomed into one of the Brew Crew's top starters. The following day, Atlanta got Rafael Montero from Houston to bolster its bullpen.
MLB Panic Meter on These 7 Ice-cold Players Early in 2025

1 month ago | bleacherreport.com | Kerry Miller

On the one hand, the 2025 Major League Baseball season is only about two weeks old. At the start of play on Friday, only 190 of the scheduled 2,430 games (7.8 percent) had been played. And while we all know to wait until Memorial Day to start paying much attention to the standings, we should probably also wait until the end of April to start worrying about slow starts for individuals. Let's not forget: Aaron Judge was batting .178 and on a 162-game pace of 24 home runs 27 games into last season.