Every Monday Baseball Musings compares the offense of the current season to the offense of the previous year through the same number of full weeks. Through four weeks, the 2025 season produced 8.57 runs per game compared to 8.82 runs per game in 2024. Home runs look even, walks rose slightly (up 0.2 per game) and strikeouts dipped slightly (down 0.3 per game). The drop in offense comes from a drop in other hits, down from 14.20 per game to 13.90 per game. With a slight drop in HBP as well, batters reaching base dropped from 23.69 to 23.52 per game.

In other words, things have evened out. The week produced 8.38 runs per game, low for a week four. Both home runs and strikeouts ran low, but other hits came in at 14.86 per game, well above the season average. We might finally be seeing batters adjust their game to put the ball in play more and depend less on home runs.