Players pick their surprise teams for 2025

Plus: deGrom, Scherzer in vintage form

Sunday, March 09 View In Browser  TOP NEWS Who will be this year's surprise team? We asked the players   In our survey last season, Major League players picked the Royals to be 2024's surprise team. After nailing that prediction, here is who they see stepping up this year. Vintage deGrom tosses 2 perfect frames in spring debut Cole 'concerned' about elbow discomfort, waiting on diagnosis Scherzer in peak form with 14 K's, 0 walks in 3 spring starts Soto fitting in just fine: 'It feels like he's been here a while' Profar leaves game with left wrist injury, will undergo MRI Yelich homers for first time since back surgery Tigers sign Urquidy to 1-year deal with club option Strider nearing spring debut after facing hitters MORE TOP NEWS MLB MORNING LINEUP PODCAST PLAY A SPORCLE BASEBALL QUIZ! MORE FREE GAMES AT MLB PLAY STAFF PICKS 15 nasty new pitches we've seen this spring Spring Training is the ideal time for pitchers to develop new offerings and add them to their repertoires, and these pitches look like they might be here to stay. 'Here's my stuff. If you hit it, great' MLB Pipeline No. 5 overall prospect Jackson Jobe decided to challenge Vladimir Guerrero Jr. with fastballs the second time he faced him yesterday, and struck him out on three pitches. 8 game-changing women in baseball International Women's Day was this weekend, and these women are currently making their mark in a variety of different roles around baseball. Pitcher celebrations 101 If hitters can bat flip, pitchers should be able to celebrate a big out. That being said, Brewers relievers have a lot of thoughts on the do's and don'ts of mound etiquette. Spring Training baseball on MLB Network Watch an afternoon doubleheader as the Jays battle the Rays at 1 p.m. ET, followed by D-backs vs. A's at 4 (available in D-backs market). Then 30 Clubs in 15 Days presented by T-Mobile continues with Siera Santos and Jake Peavy from Rays camp at 7, and Adnan Virk and Mark DeRosa from Royals camp at 8. MORE STORIES SCOREBOARD STL 5 WAS 3 TB 6 BAL 3 BOS 8 MIN 9 TOR 4 PHI 5 PIT 5 ATL 6 DET 0 TOR 5 ARI 8 CIN 9 SEA 8 CHC 9 KC 3 SF 7 KC 3 TEX 5 LAD 2 CWS 5 OAK 8 COL 1 CLE 2 SD 7 LAA 6 MIL 2 ARI 2 OAK 4 NYY 2 HOU 5 NYM 7 MIA 3 © 2025 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. MLB trademarks and copyrights are used with permission of Major League Baseball. Visit MLB.com. Any other marks used herein are trademarks of their respective owners. Please review our Privacy Policy. You (gahleexholly.hdhask@blogger.com) received this message because you registered to receive commercial email messages from MLB.com. Please add info@marketing.mlbemail.com to your address book to ensure our messages reach your inbox. If you no longer wish to receive commercial email messages from MLB.com, please unsubscribe  or log in and manage your email subscriptions. Postal Address: MLB.com, c/o MLB Advanced Media, L.P., 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.