Categorizing 2025's surprise performances

One of our key principles here at BaseballHQ.com is transparency: we believe in showing our work, our thought processes, and the inputs that we use to reach conclusions. At this time of year, that often means a look back at what we got right and wrong this season.

Years (decades, even!) of experience at this have taught us that we are fallible, in fact that we're always going to be wrong in a whole bunch of different ways. For those who publish projections, the gig seemingly always gets harder. But that's ok. Perfection isn't attainable. But transparency is. 

Whether our projections missed for reasons old or new, we know how to react when that happens. In fact, we're so used to the process of missing projections that we have an entire...

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