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Mark McGwire, Jeff Kent and 7 more baseball stars with sons in the 2025 MLB Draft
Mark McGwire, Jeff Kent and 7 more baseball stars with sons in the 2025 MLB Draft

USA Today

time2 days ago

  • Sport
  • USA Today

Mark McGwire, Jeff Kent and 7 more baseball stars with sons in the 2025 MLB Draft

The MLB Draft kicks off this weekend, and if you feel like you're hearing some very familiar names while watching, well, there's a good reason for that: The 2025 class is absolutely LOADED with the sons of former MLB stars. We're talking All-Stars, World Series champions and Hall of Famers. If you grew up watching Major League Baseball in the 1990s and early 2000s, you may want to roll your back out or do some warm-up stretches before reading this list. It is guaranteed to make you feel not just old, but ancient. Don't say we didn't warn you! Ethan Holliday, SS Matt Holliday is sending another son to the big leagues. After older brother Jackson Holliday went No. 1 overall to the Baltimore Orioles in 2022, Ethan is rated as the No. 1 prospect in the 2025 class. The shortstop has a ton of power hitting as a lefty and projects as a "slugging third baseman". Cam Leiter, RHP Yep, there's another Leiter coming to pro baseball. This one is the son of Kurt Leiter, making him the nephew of Al and Mark, as well as cousin to Jack and Mark Jr. Cam Leiter is the No. 144 ranked prospect out of Florida State where he flashed a fastball that topped out at 98 miles per hour. Kaeden Kent, SS It's Jeff Kent's son! The 2000 NL MVP, five-time All-Star and perennial Silver Slugger was a household name during his 17 seasons in Major League Baseball. After playing college ball at Texas A&M, Kaeden will try to follow in his father's footsteps as best as he can. Brady Counsell, SS The son of current Chicago Cubs skipper Craig Counsell is looking to become the first player drafted from the University of Kansas since 2019 (Ryan Zeferjahn). Max McGwire, 1B Yep, that's Mark McGwire's son! In 52 games for the St. Louis Billikens last year, the first baseman slashed .235/.352/.397 with seven home runs. Then again, he's likely not getting the, uh, help his father had in his era. Austin Pierzynski, C Ozzie Guillen once said of A.J. Pierzynski, "If you play against him, you hate him. If you play with him, you hate him a little less." Now the former White Sox catcher's son is looking to make his own reputation in the big leagues. Manny Ramirez Jr., OF OK, feel old yet? Manny Ramirez's career is still fresh in the minds of baseball fans. The former Boston Red Sox icon was a 12-time All-Star, nine-time Silver Slugger and two-time Hank Aaron Award winner — not to mention his two World Series titles. Let's see what junior can do. Jake Casey, OF Sean Casey's kid played college ball at Kent State, just across the state of Ohio from where his dad was a three-time All-Star en route to becoming a member of the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame. Carsten Sabathia, 1B What a summer for the Sabathia family. Carsten will wait to hear his name called this weekend in the MLB Draft. C.C. will enter the Hall of Fame two weeks later. No pressure, kid.

MLB Reveals Historic Projection for Yankees' Aaron Judge
MLB Reveals Historic Projection for Yankees' Aaron Judge

Yahoo

time01-05-2025

  • Sport
  • Yahoo

MLB Reveals Historic Projection for Yankees' Aaron Judge

Through his first nine full seasons at the MLB level, New York Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge has undoubtedly established himself as one of the game's best players, making six All-Star appearances and winning the AL MVP twice. Through the start of the 2025 season, his consistency at the plate has also been one of the biggest pieces to the Yankees, having an impressive 18-13 record and sitting in first place in the AL East Advertisement However, it's been more than just good, because in a social media post from MLB's official X account, it was revealed that Judge is on pace to accumulate a 16.7 fWAR, which would surpass Babe Ruth's 14.7 in 1923 for the highest in a single season. It's not much of a surprise when looking at his numbers, because in 31 games he's accumulated 117 at-bats, 50 hits, 29 runs scored, 10 home runs, 32 RBIs, 21 Walks, an OPS of 1.282 and an fWAR of 3.2. Those numbers start to stack up well with Ruth's incredible 1923 season, where he had 522 at-bats, 205 hits, 151 runs scored, 41 home runs, 131 RBIs, 170 walks, a 1.309 OPS and of course a 14.7 fWAR. New York Yankees right fielder Aaron Judge© Wendell Cruz-Imagn Images Of course, though, the MLB season is still just getting started and the Yankees still have 131 more games left to play, so it will remain to be seen if Judge can continue at this historic pace. Advertisement If he does, there's no doubt that the Yankees outfielder would be the favorite to win his third AL MVP, along with his fifth Silver Slugger and third Hank Aaron Award in just 10 years, Related: Yankees Predicted to Trade for $260 Million All-Star

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