The trade deadline has come and gone and the dog days of summer have arrived. Fewer than seven weeks remain in the 2025 MLB regular season. Pretty soon the postseason and awards races will really heat up, and very meaningful games will be played every night. Here are three trends worth keeping an eye on as baseball heads into the stretch drive.

Naylor running wild with Seattle

New Mariners first baseman Josh Naylor is, by almost any measure, a very good hitter. He took a .292/.360/.464 batting line and 15 home runs into Tuesday night's series opener against the Orioles . And, by almost any measure, Naylor is slow. The eye test says he's slow and so do the numbers. He's in the bottom 3% of the league in Statcast's sprint speed, on par with slow-footed veteran catchers like Jose T

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