Part of what makes baseball the best are the feats and amazing stats accruing left and right, every single day. We chronicle them throughout the year, but there’s no better time than before the calendar flips to take a look back.
It’s hard to pick just one per team, after yet another season that gave us so much fodder. No team or player can be summed up in one stat alone, but information can entertain and give us insight into the season that was, even if it doesn’t encapsulate the entire year in one fact. If you’re looking for more on your favorite teams or players, check out the MLB milestones reached in 2025 and the biggest stories of the ’25 season.
To wrap up the year and get everyone ready for 2026, here’s a look at one amazing stat for each of the 30 teams from this past season.
Blue Jays: Trey Yesavage wowed us all from the day he made his MLB debut on Sept. 15, setting a Blue Jays franchise record with nine strikeouts in his first outing in the Majors. There was so much more to come from him in 2025. In Game 5 of the World Series, he pulled off a particularly rare feat. Yesavage struck out all nine batters in the Dodgers’ starting lineup, becoming the third starting pitcher in World Series history to strike out each batter in a starting lineup. He joined Randy Johnson in Game 2 of the 2001 World Series and Bob Gibson in Game 1 of the 1968 World Series.
Orioles: Trevor Rogers made 18 starts in 2025 and they were spectacular. He had a 1.81 ERA and 0.90 WHIP and amassed 5.5 WAR, per Baseball Reference. That’s the highest WAR by a pitcher in a season where he threw 110 innings or fewer and was primarily a starter. Let that soak in — the most valuable partial season of that length by a starter. The next-highest in the AL or NL since 1900 with the same qualifiers was Jacob deGrom in 2021, with 4.5 WAR and a 1.08 ERA in 92 innings.
Rays: In his first full MLB season, Junior Caminero crushed 45 home runs. His bat speed is elite. Caminero had an average bat speed of 78.5 mph, second-fastest in MLB behind only Oneil Cruz (78.8 mph) among Statcast qualifiers. With bat speed, a fast swing is defined as one at 75 mph or faster — think of it like exit velocity, where anything 95 mph or above is hard-hit — and nobody swung fast more frequently than Caminero in 2025. Of his competitive swings, 81.1% were fast, the only player with a rate of at least 80%. Why do we care? In 2025, fast swings generated a slugging percentage of .631 along with a 54.7% hard-hit rate, compared to .380 and 37.2%, respectively, on non-fast swings. And for batting average? .313 when swinging fast, compared to .250 otherwise.
Red Sox: Wilyer Abreu had a multi-homer game on June 30 in a particularly unique fashion that is worth a revisit. He hit an inside-the-park home run in the fifth inning, then hit a grand slam into the stands later in the game in the eighth. Abreu became the sixth player to hit an inside-the-park home run and a grand slam (separately) in a game, per the Elias Sports Bureau. He joined Roger Maris (Aug. 3, 1958), Jim Tabor (July 4, 1939), Charlie Gehringer (Aug. 4, 1930), Everett Scott (July 4, 1923) and Jocko Fields (June 5, 1890). That’s right — before Abreu, the last time this had happened was in 1958.
Yankees: Aaron Judge was stellar again in 2025, winning his second consecutive MVP Award and third overall. Judge led all MLB qualifiers in batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage, becoming the fifth player in the expansion era (1961) to do so. He joined Miguel Cabrera in 2013, Barry Bonds in 2002, Larry Walker in 1999 and George Brett in 1980. He also hit 20 first-inning home runs, two more than any other player in any single inning in a season in MLB history.
Guardians: Another season, another outstanding performance from José Ramírez. 2025 was his second season with at least 30 home runs and 40 stolen bases. The only other players in MLB history with multiple such seasons are Bobby Bonds (four), Barry Bonds and Alfonso Soriano. Only Bobby Bonds and Ramírez did so in consecutive seasons.
Royals: Bobby Witt Jr. continued to impress in year four. He had 38 stolen bases, his fourth straight season with at least 30. He’s one of seven players to have at least 30 stolen bases in each of his first four career seasons since the modern stolen base rule was adopted (1898), along with Ichiro Suzuki, Delino DeShields, Vince Coleman, Rickey Henderson, Jerry Remy and Art Devlin. Witt is the only player in MLB history with at least 30 stolen bases and 10 home runs in each of his first four seasons, and he’s actually had at least 20 homers in each.
Tigers: Tarik Skubal won his second consecutive AL Cy Young Award for his work in the regular season, but his postseason performance deserves a mention, too. Though the Tigers went on to lose in extra innings, Skubal’s ALDS Game 5 was one for the ages. He set a postseason single-game record with seven consecutive strikeouts at one point and ended up with 13 total, the most by a pitcher in a winner-take-all game in postseason history. Along with his 14 strikeouts in Game 1 of the Wild Card Series, Skubal became the first pitcher in postseason history with multiple 13-plus strikeout games in a single postseason. The only others with two in a postseason career are Bob Gibson and Gerrit Cole.
Twins: The Twins put together a 13-game winning streak in May, after authoring a 12-game winning streak in 2024. Since 1900, there have now been 12 instances of a team winning 12 or more in a row in consecutive seasons. The Twins were the first to do so since Cleveland won 14 straight in 2016 and had their AL-record 22-game win streak in 2017.
White Sox: Colson Montgomery hit 21 home runs in a 71-game rookie campaign, getting off to a fast start. He hit his 10th career home run on Aug. 11, in his 32nd career game. That was the third-fewest career games to 10 home runs in White Sox history, trailing Zeke Bonura in 1934 (25 games) and José Abreu in 2014 (26 games). The 23-year-old Montgomery also became the youngest player in White Sox history with at least 10 home runs in an 18-game span.
Angels: On June 23, the Angels had eight of their first-round Draft picks appear in a game, in Zach Neto, Nolan Schanuel, Mike Trout, Taylor Ward, Jo Adell, Christian Moore, Reid Detmers and Sam Bachman. It was the first time that happened for a team since the Brewers on July 3, 1991, with Paul Molitor, Dan Plesac, Robin Yount, B.J. Surhoff, Dale Sveum, Bill Spiers, Gary Sheffield and Greg Vaughn, per Elias. The very next day, in his 12th career game, Moore hit a game-tying home run in the eighth inning and then hit a walk-off home run in the 10th. He became the second player in MLB history with a multi-homer game including a walk-off home run within his first 12 career games, joining Matt Thaiss on July 28, 2019 — also for the Angels.
Astros: Hunter Brown made his first All-Star team in 2025 and went on to finish third in the AL Cy Young Award voting. A big reason why he was so effective was limiting hard contact. Brown allowed just a 32.2% hard-hit rate, the second-lowest among the 151 pitchers to allow at least 250 batted balls this season, behind only Ranger Suárez (31.1%).
Athletics: Nick Kurtz made an impact for the A’s this season and cemented it with a unanimous AL Rookie of the Year Award. His teammate Jacob Wilson also had a great year and finished second for the award. The A’s became the ninth team to have players finish first and second for Rookie of the Year in the same season. They joined the 2022 Braves (Michael Harris II, Spencer Strider), 2011 Braves (Craig Kimbrel, Freddie Freeman), 1989 Cubs (Jerome Walton, Dwight Smith), 1984 Mariners (Alvin Davis, Mark Langston), 1975 Red Sox (Fred Lynn, Jim Rice), 1963 White Sox (Gary Peters, Pete Ward), 1960 Orioles (Ron Hansen, Chuck Estrada/Jim Gentile tied) and 1957 Phillies (Jack Sanford, Ed Bouchee).
Mariners: Julio Rodríguez hit 32 home runs and notched 30 stolen bases, becoming the only player in Mariners history with multiple 30-30 seasons. Rodríguez is up to 112 home runs and 116 stolen bases in his first four MLB seasons. He’s the only player with at least 110 home runs and 100 stolen bases in his first four seasons. If we look by age instead, he’s the third player with at least 110 home runs and 110 stolen bases before turning 25, along with Alex Rodriguez and Mike Trout.
Rangers: We were treated to a full season of Jacob deGrom in 2025, as he made 30 starts for the first time since 2019 and was a qualified pitcher (at least one inning pitched per team game) for the first time since 2020. From April 18 through July 1, deGrom allowed six hits or fewer and two runs or fewer in 14 straight starts. That marked the longest such streak by a traditional starter since 1900.
Braves: Ronald Acuña Jr. returned on May 23 and hit a leadoff home run — because of course he did. He became the first player in MLB history to miss at least 150 games and then hit a leadoff homer in his first game back, per STATS. He finished the year with 21 home runs, including four of at least 450 feet, second-most in MLB behind only Kyle Schwarber (five). Acuña has 27 career home runs of at least 450 feet, including playoffs, two more than anyone else in MLB since the start of 2018.
Phillies: Kyle Schwarber had another powerful season for the Phillies, hitting a career-high 56 home runs. Those included 23 off left-handed pitchers. That was the most home runs by a lefty batter off lefty pitchers in a season, per Elias. The record had been 22, by Matt Olson in 2021 and Stan Musial in 1949. Schwarber also hit four home runs in one game on Aug. 28, the record third four-homer game by an individual in 2025. It was his third game with at least three home runs since joining the Phillies, tying Mike Schmidt for the most such games in franchise history.
Marlins: Agustín Ramírez got off to a powerful start to his career in late April. He hit a double in his MLB debut, two doubles in his second game, a double and triple in his third game and two home runs in his fifth game. Ramírez became the first player to have three games with multiple extra-base hits in his first five career games since 1900.
Mets: In his first year in Queens, Juan Soto continued to show elite plate discipline and power, plus added in a baserunning twist. 21.6% of his swings were blasts, the highest rate in the Majors, and 26.3% of his contact was blasts, which also led. What does that mean? A blast is a batted ball that has both a fast swing (75+ mph) and is squared up, which means it reached at least 80% of possible exit velocity based on bat speed and pitch speed. In other words — crushed. MLB hitters hit .547 with a 1.139 slugging percentage and 99.8% hard-hit rate on blasts in 2025.
Nationals: Daylen Lile had a September to remember, hitting .391 and slugging .772 in 25 games. He hit six home runs and seven triples. He became the sixth player with at least seven triples and six home runs in a calendar month in the last 120 seasons, joining Willie Mays in June 1957, Babe Herman in July 1929, Ty Cobb in May 1921, Ed Lennox in May 1914 and Frank Schulte in July 1911.
Brewers: 21-year-old Jackson Chourio made his presence known in his second postseason appearance in as many MLB seasons. In Game 1 of the NLDS, Chourio had a double and a single in the first inning, then added another single in the second. He became the first player in MLB history with three hits in the first two innings of a postseason game. Then in Game 2, Chourio homered off a 101.4 mph pitch, the fastest pitch hit for a postseason homer under pitch tracking (2008), a mark tied by Seiya Suzuki in Game 5 of the same series. Through 12 career postseason games, Chourio is hitting .341 with a 1.044 OPS.
Cardinals: The Cardinals hit .304 as a team in the first nine games of the season, racking up 101 hits. They reached at least 10 hits in each of their first nine games, the second-longest such streak to start a season since the mound was moved to its current distance (1893), behind only Cleveland in 1999 (10), per Elias.
Cubs: Pete Crow-Armstrong showed off his power-speed combination with a 30-30 season, amassing 31 home runs and 35 stolen bases. He got to 25-25 particularly quickly, and we don’t just mean by sprint speed. His 92 games were the fourth-fewest games played to reach at least 25 homers and 25 stolen bases in a season. Only Eric Davis in 1989 (69 games), Alfonso Soriano in 2002 (91) and Bobby Bonds in 1973 (91) got there faster
Pirates: Oneil Cruz hit a 122.9 mph home run on May 25. That’s the hardest-hit batted ball tracked by Statcast, breaking his own prior record of 122.4 mph. Cruz has six career batted balls of at least 120 mph. The only other player with multiple under Statcast is Giancarlo Stanton (16).
Reds: Elly De La Cruz was electric yet again in 2025. On March 31, he hit two home runs and a double, and notched a stolen base. It was the third time in his career he had three extra-base hits and at least one stolen base in a game. That broke a tie with Joe Morgan and Orlando Cepeda for the most such games before turning 24 years old in at least the last 125 seasons. Three such games are tied for the fourth-most overall in that span regardless of age, behind only Morgan (five), Honus Wagner (five) and Barry Bonds (four).
D-backs: Lourdes Gurriel Jr. hit a home run off a 103.9 mph pitch from Mason Miller on Aug. 5. That’s the fastest pitch hit for a homer under pitch tracking (2008). The previous fastest had been 103.2 mph hit by Ian Happ in 2024. From Aug. 13, 2017, until Aug. 2, 2024, Rafael Devers had held the record at 102.8 mph. On that day in 2024, Josh Bell, then on the D-backs, set the record at 102.9 mph, which he held until the Happ home run on Sept. 17. Now, it’s Gurriel’s.
Dodgers: Shohei Ohtani keeps winning MVP Awards and doing historic things in the process. He’s the only player to win MVP unanimously multiple times, and has now done so four times. He’s the second player to win MVP in each of his first two seasons with a team, joining Roger Maris in 1960-61 with the Yankees. He’s also the second to win both MVP and the World Series in consecutive years, joining Joe Morgan in 1975-76.
Giants: On July 8, Patrick Bailey hit the first walk-off inside-the-park home run since Tyler Naquin on August 19, 2016. The last before that? Angel Pagan on May 25, 2013, for the Giants. That’s the Giants’ only other one since the start of 1932. Bailey became the third catcher with a walk-off inside-the-park home run, joining Bennie Tate on Aug. 11, 1926, and Pat Moran on Aug. 4, 1907.
Then, on Sept. 12, Bailey crushed a walk-off grand slam. He became the first player in MLB history with a walk-off inside-the-park home run and a walk-off grand slam on separate plays in a season. It is worth noting that Roberto Clemente had both on one play on July 25, 1956.
Padres: Fernando Tatis Jr. reached 100 career stolen bases on May 3, to go along with his 135 home runs at the time. He reached at least 100 career stolen bases and 130 career home runs in 547 games, the fewest games to reach those marks in MLB history.
Rockies: On Aug. 1, the Rockies allowed nine runs in the first inning to the Pirates but still went on to win, 17-16. They became the sixth team to win after allowing at least nine runs in the first inning in MLB history, per Elias. They joined Cleveland on Aug. 23, 2006, the Phillies on June 8, 1989, the Phillies on Sept. 30, 1913, the Reds on May 17, 1896, and the Cleveland Blues on June 21, 1884.
