2025 stats: 81 IP, 54 G, 4.00 ERA, 3.70 FIP, 1.33 WHIP, 6.78 K/9, 2.78 BB/9, 0.4 fWAR

In 2024, the 29-year old right-hander’s debut in the big leagues was the feel-good story of the year. He had spent a decade on a very long-and-winding road with no promise it would guide him anywhere. Still he kept his head down and followed his feet, trusting that if they kept leading him to a pitcher’s mound, it would work out. Considering the persistence and faith required, the fact that Bivens threw a single pitch in the Major Leagues bordered on the miraculous.

But you know what often follows a miracle? The monotonous rock-tumbler called Life. The professional peak Bivens reached last June wasn’t a resting perch, it wasn’t decked-out in laurels, it just flattened out into a plateau. A long ridge ro

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