The meat of the 2025 MLB regular season is here and the sample sizes aren't all that small anymore. Contenders and pretenders are establishing themselves, and we're closer to the trade deadline than Opening Day.

I’m not saying the Red Sox front office reads The Windup, but less than 24 hours after Ken’s comments, Roman Anthony was at Fenway Park. Coincidence? Also: Ken has Yankees-Red Sox notes, former Rockies weigh in on the place they escaped and holy moly,

Yusei Kikuchi took a one-hit shutout into the eighth inning and Jo Adell homered and drove in three runs to help the Los Angeles Angels beat the Athletics 7-4.