The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. As we look forward to 2025, let’s take a minute to look back at the stories you, the reader, found the most interesting in 2024.
I’m Levi Weaver ; Ken Rosenthal is off this week. Welcome to The Windup! It’s basically a one-section newsletter today, plus some quick updates below this. Allow me to explain: Here at The Windup, one of our goals is to write about the things you care about, so we figured, since it’s the end of the year, that it would be interesting to look back at the most-clicked stories of the year.
It’s sorta like Spotify Wrapped (except we pay our writers). Advertisement So here’s a starting lineup of nine stories that you clicked on the most this year . (One note: We skipped any that were very of the moment — do you need trade predictions for a deadline that passed almost five months ago? You don’t.
) Here we go! 9. “As World Series dream slips away, a reality check awaits Yankees , Aaron Judge ” — Ken Rosenthal, Oct. 29 With the Yankees trailing the World Series 3-0 and clearly outclassed by the Dodgers , Ken read them for filth, pointing out they had emerged from a weaker American League bracket.
At the center of the failure to compete: Aaron Judge, who had a fairly wretched postseason. The Yankees answered that night, winning Game 4 by a score of 11-4, but that was their only win of the World Series. Things hav.