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2025 Season Preview: Part III
Posted by: Kevin -- Mon, 31 Mar 2025 03:34:13 +0000
The first weekend of the 2025 MLB season has come to an end. Early indications are the Yankees might torpedo the record book if they keep up their current home run pace. Nothing like an equipment controversy to get the season started!
This brings us to the final installment of our 2025 DTBL season preview series. My cutoff decision for which teams will be covered in which sections is generally determined by grouping teams that are all expected to finish closely bunched in the standings. That was true of both of the first two parts this year. That is not exactly the case for this last one though. The team that is projected to win the league this year has no peer according to these rankings. They would have deserved their own article if my grouping rule was strictly enforced. That’s not to say these ...
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Today's Best
 | Goodman, Hunter Darkhorses 3 for 5, 1 HR, 5 RBI, 3 R, 0 SB |
 | Eovaldi, Nathan Diamond Dogs 7.0 IP, 0 ER, 2 H, 1 BB, 7 K 1 W, 0 SV |
Week's Best
 | Freeman, Freddie Demigods 0.500 AVG, 28 AB, 14 H, 3 HR 12 RBI, 7 R, 0 SB, 1.2 PAR |
 | Wheeler, Zack Kings 1.29 ERA, 0.643 WHIP 2 W, 0 SV, 14.0 IP, 2 ER 7 H, 2 BB, 17 K, 2.2 PAR |
Standings
| PLACE | TEAM | TOTAL |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moonshiners | 75.50 |
| 2 | Mavericks | 74.00 |
| 3 | Kings | 64.00 |
| 4 | Demigods | 62.00 |
| 5 | Darkhorses | 56.00 |
| 6 | Diamond Dogs | 54.00 |
| 7 | Choppers | 44.50 |
| 8 | Jackalope | 41.00 |
| 9 | Cougars | 40.50 |
| 10 | Komodos | 38.50 |
Recent Transactions
| Date | Player | Team | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| 05-12-2025 | Romano, Jordan | Kings | Added to major league roster. |
| 05-12-2025 | Slaten, Justin | Kings | Sent to minors. |
| 05-12-2025 | Goodman, Hunter | Darkhorses | Signed as a free agent. Added to major league roster. |
| 05-12-2025 | Moreno, Gabriel | Darkhorses | Released. |
| 05-12-2025 | Lewis, Royce | Darkhorses | Activated from inactive list. Added to major league roster. |
| 05-12-2025 | Winn, Masyn | Darkhorses | Sent to minors. |
| 05-12-2025 | Strider, Spencer | Darkhorses | Placed on inactive list. |
| 05-12-2025 | Mullins, Cedric | Darkhorses | Sent to minors. |
| 05-12-2025 | Merrill, Jackson | Darkhorses | Added to major league roster. |
| 05-12-2025 | Greene, Hunter | Darkhorses | Placed on inactive list. |
| 05-12-2025 | Woodruff, Brandon | Darkhorses | Activated from inactive list. Added to major league roster. |
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DTBL Chatter
2025 Player Adds/Drops
Posted by: Kevin - 02/22/2025 11:24:47 - in DTBL DiscussionWith today being the first day with a full spring training game schedule, what better time to release the first draft of the players who are slated to be added to and removed from the league roster for the upcoming season? This could be a fluid list, so please let me know if you think the...
Re: 2025 Player Adds/Drops
Reply by: Kevin - 03/01/2025 10:02:36
I will be posting the official draft roster in just a bit. One late change to the RP list. Since David Robertson remains an unsigned free agent, I have dropped him and replaced him with Boston's Justin Slaten. Since Kyle Finnegan re-signed with the Nats this week, he will remain in the league.
Reply by: Kevin - 03/01/2025 10:02:36
I will be posting the official draft roster in just a bit. One late change to the RP list. Since David Robertson remains an unsigned free agent, I have dropped him and replaced him with Boston's Justin Slaten. Since Kyle Finnegan re-signed with the Nats this week, he will remain in the league.
2025 Position Changes
Posted by: Kevin - 02/19/2025 22:50:19 - in DTBL DiscussionFor the past several days, I've been working on the 2025 DTBL player pool. I'm more or less done with hitters, but still have some work to do on the pitching side. I hope to have the first draft of the player add/drop lists ready in the next couple days. In the meantime, I do have the l...
2024 PAR update
Posted by: Kevin - 11/15/2024 12:54:20 - in DTBL DiscussionA heads up that I completed the post-season PAR update last night to incorporate 2024 league-wide stats into the formula and then re-ran the '24 PAR totals for individual players.
For hitters, most players saw their PAR drop a bit, particularly among guys who racked up signifi...
2024 Player Adds/Drops
Posted by: Kevin - 02/24/2024 17:21:55 - in DTBL DiscussionHere is the first version of the list of players who will be added to, and removed from, the league roster for 2024. Notably, there is a bit less turnover than usual this year. At the moment, we have 108 players who were not part of the league a year ago slated to be added for '24. This...
Re: 2024 Player Adds/Drops
Reply by: Kevin - 03/05/2024 12:29:34
I hate to do this on such short notice before the draft begins, and without an official injury treatment plan being put in place. But in light of Lucas Giolito being diagnosed with a partial UCL tear that will likely cost him the season, I think I'm going to go ahead and replace him in th...
Reply by: Kevin - 03/05/2024 12:29:34
I hate to do this on such short notice before the draft begins, and without an official injury treatment plan being put in place. But in light of Lucas Giolito being diagnosed with a partial UCL tear that will likely cost him the season, I think I'm going to go ahead and replace him in th...
2024 Position Changes
Posted by: Kevin - 02/21/2024 22:41:29 - in DTBL DiscussionI'm just about done with my first draft of the 2024 DTBL player roster. But first, let's go over the players who will be changing positions in this league this year. As has been the case in recent years, this is another pretty long list. It's both quantity and quality this year. There ...
Draft Order
Posted by: Kevin - 02/20/2024 11:33:42 - in DTBL DiscussionOver the past few days, I've been hard at work compiling the pool of players who will make up the league roster for 2024. I should be ready to post the official position change list, soon followed by the first version of the player add/drop lists in the next few days. But first, a draft ...
2023 Player Adds/Drops
Posted by: Kevin - 02/27/2023 21:13:37 - in DTBL DiscussionBefore I get to the list of players who will be added to and removed from the league's player pool for the upcoming season, I want to mention that I made a slight adjustment to the position distribution of these slots. Somewhat counterintuitively, despite the NL now having a full-time des...
Re: 2023 Player Adds/Drops
Reply by: Kevin - 02/28/2023 20:18:10
With today's news that Gavin Lux tore his ACL and will probably miss the entire season, there isn't much reason to keep him on the league roster for '23. Since he was slated to move from SS to 2B (in this league), I'm replacing him with 2B Tony Kemp.
Reply by: Kevin - 02/28/2023 20:18:10
With today's news that Gavin Lux tore his ACL and will probably miss the entire season, there isn't much reason to keep him on the league roster for '23. Since he was slated to move from SS to 2B (in this league), I'm replacing him with 2B Tony Kemp.
2023 Position Changes
Posted by: Kevin - 02/24/2023 22:06:25 - in DTBL DiscussionIt is nice to finally be back to a relatively normal spring training schedule. I guess that's not entirely true with the World Baseball Classic set to begin in a couple weeks. But at least the regular season has a definitive start date this year. So we are going to return to our usual s...
2022 PAR update
Posted by: Kevin - 11/11/2022 11:57:25 - in DTBL DiscussionI have completed the update to all players' 2022 PAR values. As a reminder, this post-season update is done to include the recently completed season's numbers in the PAR formula, replacing the oldest of the five seasons worth of data that is used as the historical baseline. Throughout th...
PAR update
Posted by: Kevin - 04/02/2022 11:43:02 - in DTBL DiscussionBefore we get into the 2022 season, I want to mention the 2021 PAR update that I ran a couple weeks ago, shortly after the lockout ended. Usually, soon after the season ends, I run an update on the player PAR totals for the recently completed season. These updates incorporate adjustments...