MLB trends: Fernando Tatis Jr. finds new strength while Royals, Phillies face clear weaknesses

The next season of 2025 MLB is about four weeks and everything starts to look more normal for a better term lack of time. Only one qualified hit is swimming .400, only a handful of snacks have one “1.00 era”, and no team has a winning record with one of the worst different characters in the league. We are now starting to enter the season.

Given here now three trends in three seasons to pay attention to when we approach the end of April, and really enter the thickness of the next season.

In the 6th year Grandmother equates

It’s easy to forget that Padres Star Fernando Tatis Jr. is only 26 years old. He has a January birthday, so he will also play at the age of 26 at the age of 26. He is a young 26. Despite this, Tatis entered the season with more than 500 career games and received MVP votes with three different seasons. Tatis has been one of only 24 players since this age, 20 war with their age.

At the beginning of this season, we saw the best version of Tatis. Last week, he was named the player of the “National League” week and year. Add to the supermarket right field protection, and Tatis is in second place among all players, 1.9 War, essentially a rounding error to Aaron’s judge (2.0 war). He was the best player of NL this month.

More interesting than a sliced ​​line of what is happening under the hat. His strike and shock strike rates have been improved for the third straight season and are now much better than the League average. Grandmother pursues less than the belt without sacrificing any aggressive in his zone. He has more contact against breaking balls. The radio is all pointing out.

Some of it is an attempt and maturation as a hit. ESPN’s Buster Olney reports The father of that grandmus, Fernando the sword, motivated him to make more housework and studied pitchers than just using his sports gifts. Better preparation helped Tatis to catch certain pits and just have a better, more delicate adjusted plan on the plate. It always helps.

Moreover, Tatis opened his position a little and changed his foot on his foot. Here is a gif before and after:

The more open posture does the grandmother look better on the ball, and the strikes of the legs / shoe taps are about time. The foot’s stroke worked well for the grandmother. He was his career-caliber player, but knocked on his foot seems to have more contacts to break balls and in general. For some strokes, the leg tap them gives them a much more margin of error.

Tatis has a foot suspension in his not-so-distant past, so it is fair to question his results. He brought it to himself. At the same time, he is an absolute freak athlete, and his baseball skills are obvious. Tatis is one of the most embarrassing players in sports, and this year she raised her game to another level. More contact, more discipline, more results. She is better than ever.

Terrible Great Out of Kanzas City

Last year, the Royals authored one of the biggest turnings in MLB history, from 2023 to 86 to 86 victories and 86 victories and extraordinary rotation. Seth Lugo, Cole Rags, Breddy singer and Michael Walks began 126 out of 162 team games and had a combined 329 era.

Rotation has been strong this season, and the Witt is still incredible, although the Royals have taken 9-14 records on Tuesday, rocks. They lost eight of their last 10 games and passing Tuesday, they didn’t hit more than four since April 4. It’s 16 straight games. It is really difficult to win with that little crime.

Individuals are up and down “Vorts” (Jonathan India, Michael Massey, even Salvador Perez). The biggest sinner of the abuse of the city of Kanzas is not one player. That’s all out of the way. Tuesdays of the game are shocking bad.

If not for athletics, then a few stinkin ‘Point is worse, it’s worse in basic percentage, the Royals would die on the board. The city of Kansas has minimal productive officer in baseball and not small margin. The braves put the 29th minus -0.9 wars on their officers, so we are talking about a semi-naked difference. It is significantly played with these few games.

It will be easy to chalk until the noise of the small seasonal sample size, if it weren’t for the continuation of the last season. Last year, Royals Outfielders hit .223 / .281 / .367 (81 ops +) and collectively costs 0.8 war. The top five signs of the main league. That they even went back to 86 games and passed off the post that Extract production is noteworthy.

In winter, the external view was simple, and the Royals only took small bites. This year, India, the second career in the career, has played some outbound area this year, but mostly the third. Mark Kanoha came out from the affected list this last weekend. Cavan Biggio played a few ways out. Otherwise, it is the same group as last year. Kyle Isbel, MJ Melendez, Hunter RenFroe and more.

The city of Kansas has started cycling through internal outgoing options. They were called to be invited when the Canadian was installed on the affected list and now will remain with the Royals that Melendes is for 47 (0.085) 4, the demons-A. Tyler Gentrin, Nelson Velzkes and Joey Wiemer, as options for calls, although everyone fights in Omaha.

Outfield’s upgrade was the biggest priority in offrada. It didn’t happen. Now the Royals GM JJ Picollo will have to find a way to find it during the season, which is not easy. The good news is that the bar is the floor. Adding an average outgoing appendix to a league would be a great modernization. Kansas urban outbreak was the worst in baseball in 2024. Somehow it was even worse in 2025.

Philies make things difficult on themselves

Like many teams in four weeks in the new season, the Philists are still trying to solve the groove and collect together the success extended. Bullpen has been premature And roommates Alec Bohm and Brandon Marsh have been in the middle of the plate. It’s just to panic very soon. Philler, though, there are some things.

Another thing that Phils should find out how to retire # 9. Philies were so bad against strokes # 9. Look at Toureday’s game with the numbers entering Mets.

Philadelphia has allowed the highest standard for medium (26 points) and a base interest rate (35 points) is not close. At the other end of the spectrum, there are Al Central Tigers, who allowed the best of MLB. It takes care of the bottom of the business.

Hate # 9 is not sure. That guy is still a big Uguer who can harm if you make a mistake. So to speak, you put life so harder than you if you don’t get those more easily. Putting the hit Nine Nine means that Baserunner on the top of the line where teams collect their best strokes. Percentage of No. 905 by allowing strokes # 9.

At this point, I will blindly blind the sample, not a certain drawback with the approach of the film. It is a veteran-involved personnel with veterans hunter. They know they should be better against hit 9. They just didn’t do it yet. Philler needs to figure out their bulls, get Bohm and Marsh Going and stop letting you make a hit of the whole star.