You should not be surprised to be reading this.

Going into the 2025 season, we expected to again have a late-season roundup of the year’s “biggest surprises,” because that’s an annual conversation in baseball.

Maybe one of these years we will master the art of predicting everything that will happen in the MLB season and then have to come up with some other content in this space.

But that would be boring, wouldn’t it?

Here are some big-picture topics that have helped make the 2025 season captivating … and surprising!

The Year of the Big Dumper

Having averaged 30 homers over the previous three seasons and won the Platinum Glove in the American League last year, Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh had already made a name for himself … to go with one of the best nicknames in the sport.

But in

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