At the end of each regular season, I like to do a quick review of both The Skippers View and the MLB season as a whole. It won’t be long, and I won’t dive too deep into analytics just yet; I will keep that for January.
The Skippers View
Thanks to all our great followers, both here on the website and over on X, we have had by far our biggest year across the board. Every month of 2025 has topped even our best months in past years. A big part of that comes from the “evergreen” views that we have been getting. Thanks to all you great followers, we have snuck our way into the Google search algorithm and now will regularly come up in searches. Blogs from two years ago are now seen daily by readers across the country. It is AWESOME.
On the X side, both the main account and my personal account have already surpassed all-time highs in impressions, engagement, etc. So, super stoked about that.
Like many content creators today, we unfortunately got caught up in a copyright situation over the summer. To say that put a damper on the year would be an understatement. We were marching into summer with tremendous momentum, and we got hit by that early in June. As a result, we pivoted much of what we were doing and how we were doing it. I am not glad that it happened; it was one of the most stressful situations of my life, but the changes that have been made, I am happy about.
As this year went on, I was offered many opportunities to take my talents to a different beach, but there is no fun in that. I will continue to run The Skippers View until I die. Over the next few months, you will see All-Time Lineups for every team and chapters of my new book I am working on.
MLB Season Review
We are waiting on final numbers for the World Series, but I imagine it was the most-watched in at least a decade. I do not let myself become a prisoner of the moment, so I will not crown this the best World Series of my lifetime just yet. That being said, it is easily in the Top 5 of any that I have watched.
On the viewership side, more people are showing up to games AND putting them on at home. MLB surpassed 70,000,000 in attendance for the third straight season. On the TV side, they also hit huge numbers that have not been seen in a decade, with the postseason in particular being the best since 2017. On social media, MLB accounts’ viewership grew by over 20%.
Global viewers are only adding to these numbers (which is why I think Game 7 will be the most-watched game of the 2000s)
Baseball is far from dead.
Of course, the looming CBA agreements are on many minds. With all the talk of salary caps, many are saying that the Dodgers’ victory only adds fuel to the fire for the need for one. But the fact remains that right now, owners, players, agents, managers, etc, are making the most money in baseball history. The sport is growing in a new age of media and has started to bring the TikTok brain of Gen Z and Gen Alpha into the fold. I don’t love the brain rot they post on social media (if I have to see another gif of that Speed kid under a random baseball tweet again, I might defenestrate myself.) But still GROWTH.
For me, this was the most fun I have had covering baseball. The Red Sox were good, writing was fun, teams across the league were entertaining, and I have fostered more and more great relationships.
Getting sued absolutely sucked, but tis life.
Go Red Sox.