FanGraphs Weekly Mailbag: July 5, 2025

Hi there FanGraphs Members and readers. I hope all of you right here within the U.S. are having fun with your vacation weekend. I’ve spent a lot of this week on trip, so I didn’t get to observe as many video games as I often do. Nonetheless, I adopted among the motion from afar, sufficient to see Clayton Kershaw report his 3,000th strikeout, the Yankees fall out of first place, and the All-Star Sport’s starters be named.

This week’s mailbag is a little more evergreen than our earlier ones, after we’ve answered your questions in regards to the Rafael Devers commerce and the impression of his contract, Jacob Misiorowski and perceived velocity, and the weirdness of the Twins. As an alternative, at this time we’ll focus on how we watch baseball, gamers of the previous who might nonetheless mash within the fashionable recreation, and a lot extra.

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