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This Great Game Comebacker Archive: 2025
The troubling rise of online gambling within baseball, the embarrassing surge in the use of emergency pitchers, and the Dodgers’ success as the game’s first repeat champions in 24 years are just a few of the baseball stories we commented on throughout 2025.
January 2025
Cooperstown welcomes Ichiro Suzuki, CC Sabathia, and Billy Wagner; If there’s a player available, the Dodgers will take him; R.I.P. the great, so-so Bob Uecker.
February 2025
MLB tries out the electronic strike zone at Spring Training; Who’s on Third at Boston?; The passing of the last true commissioner.
March 2025
The latest new Rays ballpark proposal dies; DEI somehow catches up with Jackie Robinson; The Best and Worst of Spring Training.
April 2025
Vladimir Guerrero Jr. goes long-term with the Blue Jays; Eugenio Suarez belts four home runs—and his Diamondbacks still lose the game.
May 2025
Pete Rose, Joe Jackson and other gambling cheats are taken off the ineligible list; Enough of the emergency pitchers; Are online gamblers getting increasingly hostile with MLB players?
June 2025
Hello, Jacob Misiorowski; Farewell, Dave Parker; The Red Sox bid good riddance to Rafael Devers.
July 2025
Are micro-bets a big threat to MLB?; The first “swing-off” determines the All-Star Game winner; Baseball’s first four-homer game from a rookie; Is Clayton Kershaw really the last 3,000-K pitcher?
August 2025
Jen Pawol, the majors’ first female umpire; Bristol welcomes baseball at the speedway; Kyle Schwarber becomes the latest major leaguer to hit four homers.
September 2025
Cleveland’s big comeback; the Mets’ (latest) big collapse; Kershaw calls it a career.
October 2025
Go away, gift runner—the postseason serves up several extra-inning classics; A busy month on baseball’s managerial carousel; Mike Trout goes TMI in the Tyler Skaggs trial.
November 2025
The Dodgers win a seventh game to remember in Toronto; Have Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz thrown their last MLB pitches? A 2025 baseball awards season with plenty of repeat performances.
December 2025
The sad Tyler Skaggs saga ends in civil court; Jeff Kent gets the call to the Hall, while Alex Rodriguez is at peace with not being there.
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