When trying to make sense of the idiosyncratic game of baseball, it's easy to dig in and pore over every stat to try and figure out what is going on and what will happen next. The underlying metrics can be useful for determining whether or not a breakout is real, if a player has been bitten by bad luck, and can help solve a plethora of other mysteries. However, as two New York Mets stars proved in 2025, sometimes a number is just a number.
Juan Soto and Edwin Diaz are two of the best in the game at their respective positions.