After being sent to the Dodgers, Rortvedt quickly found himself with Triple-A Oklahoma City. He played 17 games with the Comets, posting a .667 OPS with two homers and six RBIs. In September, though, the 28-year-old got his shot. Will Smith suffered a hand injury and sat out for nearly a month, and Dalton Rushing wore a foul ball off of his knee and went to the injured list shortly after.
Baseball, perhaps more than any other sport, competes with its own deep mythology. So many of its highlights are in black and white, and so many of its GOATs are ghosts, that the former national pastime is easily dismissed as past its prime. It isn't. The 2025 postseason, which ended when the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Toronto Blue Jays in the 11th inning of the seventh game of an ulcer-inducing World Series, stands with any in baseball history.
On the MLB Trade Rumors podcast, we regularly answer questions from our readers and listeners. With the next episode set for Wednesday, we're looking for MLBTR's audience to submit their questions and we'll pick a few to answer. The 2025 regular season is now over and the playoffs are in full swing. Do you have a question about the season which just ended? The postseason? The upcoming offseason? If you have
Mathematical probability, in a perfectly equitable distribution of championships, means each MLB team would win a World Series once every 30 years. That is not the world we live in, of course, so many franchises have experienced long title droughts that have stretched into multiple decades. There is even one that has never appeared in the Fall Classic.
