Every Monday Baseball Musings compares the offense of the current season to the offense of the previous season through the same number of full weeks. Through ten full weeks, the 2025 season slightly trails 2024. The current season generated 8.59 runs per game, while 2024 came in at 8.68 runs per game. This remains odd because the components of offense are mostly positive. Home runs, singles, and walks are all up, while strikeouts are down. BABIP is up. Doubles, triples, and hit by pitch are all down slightly, but overall 23.60 batters reach base per game compared to 23.26 batters last season.

The drop in runs is situational; batters are getting on base, but they are not coming around to score. Through this point last season, the majors hit .254/.332/.407 with men in scoring position. This season that stands at .250/.329/.397. We are talking about 18,000 PA here, which is not a small sample size.

Offense dropped for the fifth week in a row. The majors is trending toward one of the lowest offensive years since the study started in 2015.