Part of the reason they play 162 regular season games in Major League Baseball is because that’s a season long enough to keep small spurts from truly defining an entire body of work. That means that 23 games - what the Cincinnati Reds have played so far in 2025 - is hardly a blip on the radar, especially since they’ve only played a handful of the 29 other teams in the league so far.
Still, it’s a juncture where taking stock of where certain metrics rank can at least become a little eye-raising, and that’s what we’ll highlight today - areas that seem so far on an end of the realm that they’re either a) due for serious regression or b) beginning to look like a thing.