2025 Scorpio Stingers
The 2025 MLB season is long over, one of the most exciting World Series in recent memory (or indeed possibly in all of baseball history) recorded in the books without a single post from this blog commemorating the occasion. While watching the games (and posting about the lineups of the competing teams on BlueSky), I was hard at work at my 2025 Astrology Database, the completion of which has revealed that Scorpio finished the season as the top sign in the Fantasy Astrology Baseball League.
As we prepare for next spring’s World Baseball Classic, I will embark on creating rosters for a similar hypothetical event, where players are divided into rosters based NOT on their countries of origin, but rather on their astrological sun signs. And I’ll start that process with the 2025 champion Scorpio Stingers, with fantasy points the primary deciding factor of evaluation.
As you can see from the above chart, Mets right fielder Juan Soto is by far the top fantasy point scorer in Scorpio’s player pool, so he will have right field spoken for. The yellow highlight means that Soto was acquired by a new team prior to the 2025 season – in his particular case, signing the largest contract in professional sports history, at a staggering $765 million over 15 years. Soto’s Mets teammate Francisco Lindor is next in terms of fantasy production, safely occupying the shortstop spot. Is it a coincidence that the two best players for New York’s NL team share the same sign? You decide!
The next Scorpio player in terms of full-season fantasy points is highlighted blue, because Rafael Devers split his season between Boston and San Francisco this year. He also split his defensive positioning between designated hitter and first base, despite the fact that he had been a full-time third baseman his entire career previously – and despite the fact that he famously refused to play first for Boston prior to getting traded. Another primary DH is next, but Brent Rooker of the wandering Athletics would shift to left field in deference to Soto… and because Boston shortstop Trevor Story would occupy the DH slot, due to the presence of Lindor as captain of the infield.
I make it a point in my fantasy leagues that any shortstop-eligible player can also play second base. But this provision is not necessary for Scorpio in 2025 because of breakout Brewers keystone stalwart Brice Turang, who fell less than 10 fantasy points shy of the 2,000-point milestone. However, one rule that does make sense to evoke here is holdover eligibility. If a player appeared in at least 20 games at any position in a given year, they remain eligible in that position for the FOLLOWING year. Thus, Devers could legally move over to third base to make room for Cubs first baseman Michael Busch at the sport’s least-demanding defensive position.
Moving to the MOST demanding defensive positions, we have Shea Langeliers behind the plate (or BANGeliers, as he is frequently referred to by A’s color commentator Dallas Braden). Center field would likely be handled by a platoon of lefty-swinging Trent Grisham (who accepted a qualifying offer to return to the Yankees in 2026 after a breakout year) and Wyatt Langford (who played just enough center to qualify there for the Rangers). If you don’t want to allow for holdover eligibility rules, third base would be handled by another platoon: Miguel Vargas of the White Sox and World Series participant Addison Barger (whose Blue Jays teammate Alejandro Kirk would share time with Langeliers at catcher).
Among contending signs, Scorpio has far and away the best pitching staff. (Gemini is unrivaled as far as pitching depth league-wide, but their offense is so abysmal that they’re buried in the second division.) The leading Stingers hurler is back-to-back real life Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal, who’s entering his last year of team control with the Tigers. Next in terms of fantasy points, but atop the list in total innings, is Giants ace Logan Webb.
Lefty Framber Valdez is currently a free agent, so unless he re-signs with the Astros, he will join Sonny Gray (recently traded from the Cardinals to the Red Sox) as Scorpio hurlers who will change teams in the offseason. If we’re going by overall innings, Jameson Taillon of the Cubs would round out the rotation, but Trevor Rogers had such a phenomenal points-per-game average in limited time with the Orioles, he is a must for the starting five.
The Scorpio bullpen is the only noticeable weakness, without a proven closer in sight. Jeremiah Estrada is a fine setup arm for the Padres, but he’s pretty far down the saves depth chart… unless Virgo Mason Miller moves to the rotation. After that, it’s a parade of lefties, led by a pair of Phillies Matt Strahm and Tanner Banks. It’s interesting also to point out two Dodgers – Roki Sasaki and Emmett Sheehan – who were used out of the bullpen during the 2025 postseason.