There’s something about numbers on a page that crystallize the craziness of what we’re witnessing in a given MLB season.

We owe a deep debt to those visionaries who thought to tabulate excruciating minutiae like Jiggs Parrott’s walk total with the 1892 Chicago Colts. Because now, when we want to know if what we’re witnessing is historically significant, we have decades of data -- readily accessible -- to tell us the answer.

Let’s study the statistics of this 2025 MLB season and run to the record books to put them into context here in our annual look at the year’s most bonkers baseball stats.

(Thanks, as always, to MLB.com researcher extraordinaire Sarah Langs, the Elias Sports Bureau and the great search tools available at Baseball-Reference.com and Stats Perform for their help in putti

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