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MLB Opening Day 2025 overreactions: Adley Rutschman for MVP? MacKenzie Gore for Cy Young?

Related Topics: MacKenzie Gore, Adley Rutschman

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Opening Day in baseball brings with it a fresh season of hope, excitement and, of course, wild overreactions.

On the latest episode of "Baseball Bar-B-Cast," hosts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman dive into a couple of their nuclear overreactions from the first slate of games on Thursday.

1. MacKenzie Gore will win NL Cy Young, Phillies will set strikeout record

In the clash between the Nationals and Phillies on Thursday, Washington starter MacKenzie Gore was nothing short of electric, recording 13 strikeouts in six scoreless innings.