# MLB: September 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** baseball-mlb\ **Created:** [September 5, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775 "2025-09-05T17:08:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/221 "2025-09-27T23:21:43Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I doubt that many players are being given always-on green lights to steal now, and only a relative handful of teams have embraced stealing more often. With the season about over, only three teams (Rays, Brewers, Cubs) are averaging 1+ steals per game, and only nine teams are even averaging 1 stolen base _attempt_ per game. The pro stealers like Rickey and Raines and Coleman are also an extinct breed, those who made it their job to study moves and tendencies and film and etc.; all that stuff is now mostly a series of lost arts. So now it’s the lower-end guys who get a lot more steals but the league leaders are still where they were before the rules change. I know if Rickey were still playing he’d be salivating at all the opportunities he’d be getting, and if still alive would be laughing at these pathetically low league leading totals. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/222 "2025-09-28T00:18:50Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Interesting. Where did you find those stats? The invaluable [Baseball Reference](https://www.baseball-reference.com/). Go to [Seasons, then 2025 team stats](https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/2025.shtml). The first table on that page, Team Standard Batting, shows each team’s overall stats for the season to date. I sorted by SB (stolen bases), and counted up how many teams had at least 160 steals (since there are only today’s and tomorrow’s games left for the season); I then eyeballed the next column (Caught Stealing), and mentally added the two numbers together for each team, to see how many had at least 160 attempts (steals + caught stealing). ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/223 "2025-09-28T00:22:57Z")
[The seasonal averages](https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/bat.shtml) may prove to be even more helpful. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/224 "2025-09-28T00:27:17Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > [The seasonal averages](https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/majors/bat.shtml) may prove to be even more helpful Thank you for that. It shows that, in 2022 (the last year before the rule changes), teams averaged 0.68 steal attempts per game (0.51 successful steals, 0.17 caught stealings). Steal attempts went up substantially starting in 2023, and have been fairly steady for the past three seasons at around 0.90 attempts/game. Successful steals went up by about 40% versus pre-2023 levels, while “caught stealings” went up only slightly. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/225 "2025-09-28T01:04:47Z")
The Brewers are currently losing to the Reds, 7-2, thanks in part to two errors. But, as the Phillies were blanked by the Twins tonight, Milwaukee has now clinched the #1 seed in the NL, and home-field advantage. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/226 "2025-09-28T01:07:44Z")
Glad they clinched the seed, but it would be nice to break the franchise win record. What a disastrous 3rd inning. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/227 "2025-09-28T02:00:55Z")
Well that was INSANE. Never saw anything like that before. PS - good riddance to the Cheatstro’s. ---
**Author:** ![Fugazi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/f08c70/32.png) [@Fugazi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fugazi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/228 "2025-09-28T03:10:29Z")
Hahaha. The Guardians won the game with a walk, bloop single to left that barely landed in front of the left fielder, intentional walk, then a walk off hit by pitch. All with 2 outs. That is just such a Guardians way to score a run, win the game, and clinch a playoff birth. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/229 "2025-09-28T05:53:35Z")
> [@Jaycat.again](#): > > PS - good riddance to the Cheatstro’s. Amen to that. [![](https://s.hdnux.com/photos/76/31/34/16357149/4/rawImage.jpg) ](https://s.hdnux.com/photos/76/31/34/16357149/4/rawImage.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/230 "2025-09-28T10:23:51Z")
Aaron Judge will join Mickey Mantle and Jimmie Foxx as the only players in history to win a batting title and hit over 50 home runs in a season. ---
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/231 "2025-09-28T16:18:43Z")
I am hoping Detroit beats my Sox today so the latter can play here in Cleveland this upcoming week. Otherwise I’ll have to hope they win their Wild Card series and play here the following week (or in Detroit, if I am brave enough to drive there, preferably for a day game). ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/232 "2025-09-28T18:08:44Z")
I was at that Guardians game last night. Such a stupid win and I love it! Our run differential is -7 and unless something crazy happens we could win the division in the negative. Lulz ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/233 "2025-09-28T18:48:53Z")
I just pulled up the scoreboard and realized that nobody is playing yet. All games today will start between 3:05 and 3:20 ET. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/234 "2025-09-28T19:13:03Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > All games today will start between 3:05 and 3:20 ET. That’s a fun thing they started doing a few years ago. I like it. Not that it matters too much this year. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/235 "2025-09-28T19:28:02Z")
The A’s are embracing Sacramento next season. > **[A's unveil new 'Sacramento' gold jersey for 2026](https://www.mlb.com/news/athletics-unveil-new-sacramento-gold-jersey-for-2026-season)** > > WEST SACRAMENTO -- The Athletics will pay homage to their new home base with the addition of an alternate uniform. > On the final day of their inaugural season at Sutter Health Park on Sunday, the A’s revealed a new alternate gold jersey for 2026... ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/236 "2025-09-28T19:35:19Z")
So happy the Asterisks are heart-broken. Now there is only one team I hate in the playoffs. Screw what MLB wants - I want to see a West Coast Series. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/237 "2025-09-28T21:36:58Z")
The Dodgers are [keeping Clayton Kershaw off](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/46411501/dodgers-leave-clayton-kershaw-wild-card-roster) the wild card roster. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/238 "2025-09-28T22:20:01Z")
Yanks, Toronto and Red Sox all won. So no changes there. In a weird way, I’m kind of glad the Yanks didn’t take the division. I think the 5 days off might have hurt the team. On the other hand we lost the season series to the Sox and the winner of the Wildcard series faces Toronto who the Yanks also lost the season series to. So this is going to be rough no matter what. This picture will probably change, but here is how things look right now. [![](https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/t_16x9/t_w1536/v1759097244/mlb/bldlnproiaocpzyzlj6g.jpg) ](https://img.mlbstatic.com/mlb-images/image/upload/t_16x9/t_w1536/v1759097244/mlb/bldlnproiaocpzyzlj6g.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/239 "2025-09-28T22:35:13Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > This picture will probably change Nope, that is correct. Both AL first-round series are between divisional foes. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2025, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775/240 "2025-09-28T22:43:55Z")
I’ve noticed that Rickjay hasn’t been posting the MLB threads for awhile. I hope all is well, and congrats on the Blue Jays winning the East. The Yanks furious finish made all the end of season games worth watching. I am not looking forward to seeing Crochet on Tuesday but here we go. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mlb-september-2025/1022775.md?page=13)