MLB trends: Ben Rice’s power surge, Nick Pivetta’s new digs and whether home runs are as up as they seem

The next season of 2025 MLB is less than a week, and you have all my permission – “It’s too early” if you don’t go your way for your favorite team or player. It’s too early. That’s the case, so soon. If the 162 game season was a game of nine, on top of the first lingerie there would be two eligible. It’s a people of the long season. A very long season.

It can still be early, but there are a few things we can shine from small baseball baseball. There are three trends here now to know six days in the new season.

The power of the rice opening in the lack of stancy

Soon, Yankees was soon revealed that Giancarlo Stanton would end in two elbows with tennis elbows indefinitely. He received treatment, including three stages of rich plasma injections of platelets and started struck in the box box last week. Stanton is making progress, although slowly and will be away from the team for a while.

Through Stanton Out, Catcher / First Baseman Ben Rice sucked five houses, spring training and won the DH case. He had three native games for New York last summer But mainly struggled in the Great Leagues, hitting .171 / .264 / .349 in the form of 178 plates. Before the Stendon’s injuries, Rice would start to return to the next season to be triple.

After Tuesday evening gambling game games rice for 5 is 5 in double and two homes, and he goes out on his previous best. Rice, which is not in yankees, using new Torpedo bats, has 2025. Here is the list.

1. March 21, 2025 113.8 MPH
2. March 1, 2025. 113.3 miles / hours
3. March 13 2025. 113.2 miles / hours
4. 14 March 2025. 116.1 miles / h
5. February 25, 2025. 111.1 miles / hours
6. March 17, 2025 111.1 miles / hours
7. April 1, 2025. 111.0 miles / h
8. July 6, 2024. 110.8 MPH (previous career high)

In the case of Rice, there is no change in the rhythm or mechanical way of being mechanical. He just gathered in the offset and reported spring courses, noticeably completed through his chest and arms. The player intensifies, the player hits the ball. It’s a fairy tale like it’s time.

“I think the ball goes out of the bat, definitely,” said Rice in the spring region (Through New York) “Putting more mass on the ball, so it will be harder.”

Rice, 26, is a project of the former 12th round, which had a division season among minors. The rice is well equipped with the entrance to the short right Field of the Yankee Stadium.

There is and misses in the game of Rice, and he has problems against left sides, so he plays a player / platoon boy than they are waiting for the return of “Stanton”. He fits their ball well, and his offshaosal course allowed him to “put a bigger ball” in his own words.

Pivetta’s fine adjustment with San Diego

Until February 17, Nick Piveta, strong, if the unseen major-league pitcher is employed in his past. The Paduse toured him what a two-year-old $ 23 million contract with a conventional player / club options in 2027, 2028 and 2029. The Pivetian deal can make a maximum of $ 60 million.

Pivetta did the item on Sunday evening Start first from his new teamand close what is, on paper, is a high quality bold chart. He went out for four and held Atlanta in one single seven closes. That single was deleted with a double game, so Pivetta stood in front of a minimum 21 warriors in seven. He needed only 82 pits to do it too. Were 32-year-old huge posters.

“I mean, welcome to San Diego, Nick Piveta,” said Padded Manager Mike Shodid (:Through MLB.com) “He was dominated. Had life on his heater. Really, really good curveball. His cleaning was good.

Pivetta blew the potential of rotation during her career. He has two 13-drum games under his zone, although he is also insanely incompatible. He dominates the stretcher to stretch to stretch, will be seen to go out and dominate and sovereign. Which team signed Pivetta?

Does that correction come to San Diego? It is very early to say, although it is noticeable that the supplies and reconciliation coach Ruben Nibela changed Pivetta with a gray rubber. On Sunday, he stood closer to the first base of rubber than in the middle. You have to forgive the cameras corners, we work with what we start with his season.

“I think it’s a little more to open on the plate,” Pivetta is about adjusting ESPN on Sunday night baseball. “Staying more directly. It was Ruben’s idea, so he hatched him. It was just something I worked during spring training and I just becoming more and more comfortable.

In the last past, two main “change your position rubber” success stories. Jake Arian and Fernando Rodney. The quantities arrived on the third base side of the rubber and he became the winner of CY Young. Reace moved Rodney to the first base of the rubber, and he turned around in 2012 in one of the greatest ways in the relic.

Changing your position on the rubber is a small adjustment that can pay large dividends. It changes the pitcher to the plate and in fact the corners of all its pitchers. It’s too early to know that a lot of Pivetta’s move to the first base side of MOUND will help. The first impression on Sunday was certainly strong.

Home launch rate in the early season of MLB

Tuesday entering a lottery, 170 home runs in 67 MLB games or 2.54 games between two teams. Yankees and their torpedo bats had Historical home runs on weekends Brewers, so it feels As the League house launch level is up, but in reality it is. To find out this, let’s compare this year in terms of each game terms for one plate in the game of each ball and through each flight, considering the first Monday of the season.

Yes, this year the home starting rate is higher in each of the last four ways. Not in a minor amount. Growth of 0.5 percentage points on a large scale of the league. One additional homer every 200 plate appearance – massive. This year is already looking for more than 5,000 plates, and there’s a 38 plate look for one team.

Remember that there are some unusual ways there. In 2021, MLB still had a epidemic protocols and restrictions. In 2022, the reduced spring region took place due to closure. 2023 brought the field and was a world-class baseball class. All this, not mentioning countless other factors, can help the League household rate.

What we know is that this year’s homespective interest rate is higher than the last four years. It is a small sample in the context of the 162 game season, but again we talk about 5,000 plates. Maybe you don’t want to draw conclusions based on it, but the data should not be thrown too.

The League house launch rate is usually peaked in July and August during the summer’s warming months. We’ll see where this year’s speed this year is sitting in a few weeks. Right now is a little over the last few ways, be a small size or other thing about torpedo bats or small sample. The ball leaves more often than it did since 2021-24. It’s a real thing that happens.