The 2025 Main League Baseball season has arrived. This, in fact, implies that success or failure on the staff degree – the present standings and pennant races and all of that – takes main focus. Unfurling on the identical time are these very a lot associated particular person performances. Sure, the MVP and Cy Younger derbies get most of that bandwidth, however let’s not overlook about veteran performers – a lot of whom are winding down their careers – closing in on milestones. 

Every MLB season brings a brand new crop of aspiring history-makers, and the 2025 marketing campaign is not any exception. Let’s take a look on the most notable of those benchmarks that is likely to be reached sooner or later throughout this season. In thrilling numerical order!

The peerless Ohtani gained the 2023 American League MVP award as a member of the Angels, after which final season he earned Nationwide League MVP laurels on the power of the primary 50-50 season in MLB historical past. He stays at peak degree with the bat, and this season will mark his return to the mound after not pitching in 2024 as he recovered from elbow surgical procedure. So as soon as once more he’ll put up massive worth as a hitter whereas working up the rating with this work on the mound. If he does win his third straight MVP, then he’ll be part of Barry Bonds (2001-04) as the one gamers ever to win three or extra consecutive MVP awards. 

Arraez is already the primary batsman ever to win three straight batting titles with three completely different groups (the Marlins in 2022, the Twins in 2023, and the Padres final season). In 2025, he’ll be angling to turn out to be simply the seventh hitter ever to win at the least 4 consecutive batting crowns. The others to do it are Honus Wagner (1906-09), Ty Cobb (1907-15), Rogers Hornsby (1920-25), Rod Carew (1972-75), Wade Boggs (1985-88), and Tony Gwynn (1994-97). Arraez is a profession .323 hitter who turns 28 in April, so you need to like his possibilities. 

300 residence runs: 5 gamers

(Kyle Schwarber, Phillies; Eugenio Suárez, Diamondbacks; Marcell Ozuna, Braves; Salvador Perez, Royals; Mookie Betts, Dodgers)

Effectively, this is a crowded one. We’d as effectively do that in desk format for functions of coherence. To the digits: 

Actually, it would not be stunning if all these gamers reached 300 through the 2025 season, although Betts will clearly want an uptick in his energy output relative to final season. Perez can turn out to be simply the eighth main catcher to achieve 300 profession homers. At current, 162 sluggers general have hit 300 or extra residence runs. 

400 residence runs: Mike Trout, Angels 

Given higher well being, Trout would’ve been on this membership a very long time in the past and would probably be chasing down 500 proper now. Alas and alack, Trout has been unable to keep away from accidents actually since 2017. In 2024, he was restricted to simply 29 video games, the fewest of his profession throughout a whole season, due to a knee damage that ultimately required season-ending surgical procedure. He can nonetheless thump, so if he is capable of log an affordable variety of video games then he’ll most likely get the 22 homers he must get to 400. All of it comes all the way down to well being, although, which has proved depressingly elusive for Trout for a very long time. He’d turn out to be the 59th member of the 400 homer guild. 

1,000 RBI: Bryce Harper, Phillies; Mike Trout, Angels

The Phillies’ tenured masher wants a mere 24 ribbies to achieve quadruple digits within the class. That is one among many during which all it takes is a contact of well being and sturdiness for it to occur. Even within the closely abbreviated 2020 season, Harper tallied 33 RBI, so this one’s all however a lock. As for Trout, the well being issues are clearly extra substantial, particularly coming off that afore-chronicled 2024 marketing campaign. He wants a modest 46 RBI to achieve 1,000, however he is failed to achieve that determine in every of the final two seasons. At current, there are 305 members of the 1,000 RBI membership. 

Machado is a tidy 100 hits away from this benchmark. Assuming a common state of well being, he’ll get there most likely within the second half of the season. Over the previous three years, he is averaged 157 hits per season. Machado is in line to turn out to be the 298th participant to achieve 2,000 hits for his profession. As a bonus, Machado wants simply 9 runs scored to achieve 1,000. 

2,000 managerial wins: Terry Francona, Reds

The embellished skipper goes into his first season with Cincy, and he wants simply 50 wins to turn out to be the thirteenth supervisor ever to notch 2,000 or extra wins from the dugout. It might take a disastrous season of just about not possible scale in Cincy for the Reds to not win at the least 50 video games, so Francona is all however a lock for this one. He was most likely already on his option to the Corridor of Fame sooner or later for his managerial work, and this could cinch it. 

The Dodger legend and future Corridor of Famer is sitting on 2,968 profession strikeouts. Knowledgeable use of arithmetic reveals that he wants simply 32 extra to turn out to be the twentieth pitcher ever to get 3,000 strikeouts. Well being would be the key for the 37-year-old lefty. He is coming off a 2024 season during which he labored simply 30 innings (and struck out simply 24 batters) and he’ll open 2025 on the injured record as he recovers from surgical procedures on his left toe and knee. The expectation is that he’ll definitely handle sufficient quantity to get these lacking 32 Ks, however his tortured current well being historical past – he hasn’t managed a qualifying variety of innings since 2019 – means this one bears nearer monitoring than you may assume.