MLB Power Rankings: Four top-10 teams debut at highest rankings of 2025

Watch retired Yankees ... the American League East is heating up.

New York has seen its part pb beryllium wholly erased arsenic it's present tied with the Blue Jays atop the part with the Rays conscionable a half-game back. Both Toronto and Tampa Bay reached their highest rankings of the play this week astatine 10 and seven, respectively, portion the Yankees clasp accelerated astatine No. 6.

Elsewhere successful the AL, the Astros person steadily moved up our database to No. 4, besides their highest ranking of the season, aft having ranked 17th arsenic precocious arsenic mid-May. Houston has ridden its momentum to a seven-game pb implicit the Mariners, who person fallen to 14th aft peaking astatine No. 8 successful aboriginal June, successful the AL West.

What volition the adjacent week and a fractional earlier the All-Star interruption bring?

Our adept sheet has ranked each squad based connected a operation of what we've seen truthful acold and what we already knew going into the 162-game marathon that is simply a afloat shot season. We besides asked ESPN MLB experts David Schoenfield, Alden Gonzalez and Bradford Doolittle to measurement successful with an reflection for each 30 teams.

Week 13 | Preseason rankings

1. Los Angeles Dodgers

Record: 55-32
Previous ranking: 1

It's not conscionable that Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow person yet to rejoin the rotation. It's not conscionable that Shohei Ohtani is stretched retired to lone a mates of innings. It's not conscionable that Michael Kopech joined 11 different pitchers by landing connected the injured database Tuesday. It's that the Dodgers stay astatine the apical of the standings adjacent portion getting precise small from 2 of their astir important violative contributors. Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts combined to slash conscionable .221/.293/.303 successful the period of June. The Dodgers -- with their rotation shorthanded, their bullpen successful flux and the apical of their lineup compromised -- went 17-10 successful June regardless. -- Gonzalez

2. Detroit Tigers

Record: 54-33
Previous ranking: 2

The fable of Tarik Skubal grows with each outing. When Skubal struck retired 13 Twins implicit 7 innings Sunday, it was the 2nd clip this play helium has struck retired that galore hitters portion throwing nether 100 pitches. He besides did it erstwhile past year. Baseball-Reference has transportation information mostly implicit dating to 1988, and successful that time, Skubal is 1 of lone 4 pitchers to person 3 oregon much specified games. Jacob deGrom has done it 5 times, and Freddy Peralta and Gerrit Cole are besides astatine three. Skubal is arsenic businesslike arsenic helium is dominant. -- Doolittle

3. Philadelphia Phillies

Record: 51-36
Previous ranking: 3

There were 103 pitchers successful June who threw astatine slightest 25 innings. They combined for a 3.76 ERA, giving up 1,261 earned runs successful the aggregate. Only 2 of those earned runs were fixed up by Zack Wheeler, who had a 0.58 ERA implicit 31 innings successful 5 June starts. There's a half-season to go, but Wheeler has moved into presumption to yet gain his archetypal Cy Young Award aft his 2nd vocation second-place decorativeness successful past season's balloting. The Phillies haven't had a Cy Young victor since Roy Halladay successful 2010, who successful crook was the archetypal Philadelphia Cy Young victor since the 1980s. -- Doolittle

4. Houston Astros

Record: 52-34
Previous ranking: 5

What was astir awesome astir the Astros' surge -- going 19-7 successful June down ascendant pitching and dynamic performances from the likes of Jeremy Peña and Isaac Paredes -- was that they did it without Yordan Alvarez. That volition person to continue. On Tuesday, conscionable days earlier the Astros were getting acceptable to activate him disconnected the injured list, Alvarez suffered a 2nd setback successful his betterment from a fracture successful his close hand. He was astatine the team's outpouring grooming installation successful Florida and reported that his manus felt sore aft immoderate swinging drills. He volition present spell spot a manus specialist. The Astros tin lone anticipation for bully news. -- Gonzalez

5. Chicago Cubs

Record: 51-35
Previous ranking: 4

Matthew Boyd continues to marque a propulsion for an All-Star selection, beating Cleveland -- the squad that gave him a accidental precocious past play to marque a comeback aft Tommy John country successful 2023 -- connected Tuesday with a beardown 7 innings to amended to 8-3 with a 2.65 ERA. He has lowered his ERA to 1.66 implicit his past 7 outings. With Justin Steele retired for the play and Shota Imanaga conscionable backmost aft sitting retired 7 weeks, Boyd has been the lone dependable beingness successful the Cubs' rotation. He has already pitched his astir innings since 2019. Now the Cubs volition look for immoderate rotation assistance for him. -- Schoenfield

6. New York Yankees

Record: 48-38
Previous ranking: 6

The Yankees finished 13-14 successful June, arsenic the discourtesy continued to stumble. After an .829 successful OPS successful April, it fell to .792 successful May and .718 successful June. Aaron Judge inactive deed 9 location runs and had a .967 OPS successful June, and Jazz Chisholm Jr. was terrific with a .318 average, 7 location runs and 19 RBIs. But Paul Goldschmidt deed .143, Ben Rice deed .181 and Trent Grisham deed .229 with lone 2 location runs. All 3 had been reddish blistery to statesman the season, helping to backmost up Judge early. Let's spot if the Yankees look to adhd a bat astatine the commercialized deadline. -- Schoenfield

7. Tampa Bay Rays

Record: 48-39
Previous ranking: 9

Junior Caminero is having rather the season. With 21 location runs, helium has a accidental to go lone the 3rd subordinate successful his age-21 play to deed 40 location runs, matching Eddie Mathews (47 successful 1953) and Ronald Acuña Jr. (41 successful 2019). He's besides chasing a much dubious record: Jim Rice's single-season grounds of 36 treble plays grounded into (Caminero is already astatine 22). Caminero's strikeout-to-walk ratio improved successful June, which bodes good for him continuing to mash successful the 2nd half. After a 26-6 ratio successful April and 17-3 successful May, it was 18-11 successful June. Remember, this is his archetypal afloat play successful the majors. -- Schoenfield

8. Milwaukee Brewers

Record: 48-38
Previous ranking: 10

Brandon Woodruff volition rejoin the rotation this play successful Miami to marque his archetypal MLB commencement since September 2023, erstwhile helium injured his shoulder. Woodruff made 10 starts successful his rehab assignment, a agelong that included a mates of setbacks erstwhile helium sustained an ankle wounded and was past struck by a enactment drive. His astir caller rehab commencement Sunday had been his archetypal since June 3 and helium gave up 4 runs with lone 1 strikeout successful 3⅔ innings, throwing 82 pitches and topping retired astatine 95.4 mph (averaging 93 connected his fastball). Milwaukee's rotation has eclipsed expectations, but Woodruff would beryllium a immense boost if he's adjacent to what helium was pre-injury. -- Schoenfield

9. New York Mets

Record: 49-38
Previous ranking: 7

The Mets' slump has deepened to the constituent wherever it has changed the team's competitory context. On June 12, the Mets bushed Washington, extending their winning streak to six games and going 21 games implicit .500. They held a three-game borderline implicit the Cubs for the National League's apical mark. Then New York dropped 14 of 18. Suddenly, the Mets were starring a adjacent and crowded NL wild-card derby, lone a mates of games from dropping retired of the playoff representation altogether. Needless to say, things are getting stressful astatine Citi Field. -- Doolittle

10. Toronto Blue Jays

Record: 48-38
Previous ranking: 14

Alejandro Kirk is playing his champion shot since helium started the 2022 All-Star Game. He deed .285 that play with a 127 OPS+ but fell disconnected to a 92 OPS+ successful each of the past 2 seasons. But helium deed .365 successful May and .337 successful June and mightiness beryllium connected his mode to a Gold Glove Award. He leads each catchers successful Statcast's catcher framing runs and has a caught-stealing complaint supra the MLB average. He trails lone Cal Raleigh and Will Smith successful catcher WAR via FanGraphs. The Blue Jays person ne'er had a two-time All-Star catcher, arsenic Kirk, John Buck, Russell Martin and Ernie Whitt each person 1 selection. -- Schoenfield

11. St. Louis Cardinals

Record: 47-41
Previous ranking: 11

Sonny Gray threw an implicit gem past Friday, a nine-inning one-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts and nary walks to bushed the Guardians. The crippled people of 96 was a vocation precocious for Gray and tied a Tarik Skubal commencement for champion successful the majors successful 2025. Indeed, it was 1 of the champion starts for a Cardinals pitcher since the part epoch began successful 1969. Shelby Miller had a 98 successful 2013 (9 IP, 1 H, 13 SO) and Jaime Garcia had a 97 successful 2016 (9 IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 13 SO). Jose DeLeon has the highest since 1969 with a 103, which came erstwhile helium pitched 11 innings successful 1989. -- Schoenfield

12. San Diego Padres

Record: 46-40
Previous ranking: 12

The Padres finished the period of June with a losing grounds -- successful ample portion owed to their offense, which posted the sixth-lowest OPS and scored the fourth-fewest runs per game. Fernando Tatis Jr. slumped beauteous badly, and Jackson Merrill didn't nutrient a azygous location run, but those 2 are bound to get blistery again. The biggest occupation -- 1 wide manager A.J. Preller is motivated to hole earlier the commercialized deadline -- is the bottommost of the Padres' lineup. The Nos. 7, 8 and 9 hitters combined to nutrient a .196/.280/.293 slash enactment past month. -- Gonzalez

13. San Francisco Giants

Record: 46-41
Previous ranking: 8

When the Giants bushed the Dodgers connected June 13, they were 12 games supra .500 and tied for archetypal spot successful the National League West. They person since mislaid 12 of 17 games -- including 7 of their past 9 -- and are abruptly warring conscionable to stay applicable heading into the commercialized deadline. On Tuesday, president of shot operations Buster Posey picked up manager Bob Melvin's 2026 enactment and, successful airy of the caller stretch, defended the coaching staff, telling reporters: "If anybody deserves immoderate blasted from the top, it should beryllium connected me." -- Gonzalez

14. Seattle Mariners

Record: 45-41
Previous ranking: 13

Cal Raleigh is already 1 location tally distant from equaling the vocation precocious helium acceptable past play -- successful 68 less games. If helium manages astatine slightest 2 location runs successful the Mariners' adjacent 10 games -- a beardown likelihood, fixed that helium is averaging a location tally each 3 games -- helium volition beryllium 1 of 7 players ever to scope 35 earlier the All-Star break. None of them were switch-hitters. And nary of them, of course, were catchers. Before Raleigh, the astir location runs a catcher had collected earlier the All-Star interruption was 28, by Johnny Bench successful 1970. -- Gonzalez

15. Cincinnati Reds

Record: 45-42
Previous ranking: 15

Spencer Steer's three-homer crippled propelled him to NL Player of the Week honors. His bat getting going volition beryllium important for an discourtesy looking for much accordant firepower from idiosyncratic too Elly De La Cruz. Steer deed .174 successful April and .270 successful May, with lone 2 location runs each month. He deed .302 with 5 location runs successful June. Matt McLain besides got it going successful June aft hitting nether .200 each of the archetypal 2 months. The Reds person besides struggled against left-handed pitchers, different crushed they request those 2 right-handed bats to support improving successful the 2nd half. -- Schoenfield

16. Arizona Diamondbacks

Record: 43-43
Previous ranking: 16

The period of June was a roller coaster of highs and lows for the D-backs. It began with 4 consecutive wins, past 3 consecutive losses, 5 consecutive wins, past 3 consecutive losses, 3 consecutive wins and, soon thereafter, 4 consecutive losses. By the extremity of it, executives from contending teams were calling D-backs wide manager Mike Hazen, wondering if he'd beryllium consenting to commercialized disconnected immoderate of his pending escaped agents, a database headlined by Zac Gallen, Merrill Kelly, Eugenio Suarez and Josh Naylor. Hazen informed them helium is not acceptable to springiness up connected the 2025 season. Barring a sudden, bigger drop-off, that mindset should continue. -- Gonzalez

17. Texas Rangers

Record: 43-44
Previous ranking: 20

The Rangers fundamentally proceed to tread water, with their discourtesy inactive lagging down their pitching staff. But 1 affirmative has emerged of late: Marcus Semien looks arsenic if helium mightiness yet beryllium backmost connected track. The Rangers' 2nd baseman was slashing .193/.278/.257 astatine the extremity of May. Since then, his slash enactment is up to .321/.387/.560, with 13 walks to 16 strikeouts. The discourtesy successful general, though, continues to lag behind. The Rangers person enactment up a .710 OPS since the commencement of June, 10 points beneath the league average. -- Gonzalez

18. Boston Red Sox

Record: 41-44
Previous ranking: 18

A six-game losing streak dropped the Red Sox nether .500, and though the discourtesy rebounded with 15-1 and 13-6 wins implicit the Blue Jays and Reds, Boston volition request to determine what to bash with Walker Buehler successful the rotation. His ERA is present 6.45 aft giving up 32 runs successful 26 innings implicit his past six starts, including pitching less than 5 innings successful 4 of the past five. Kyle Harrison, the cardinal instrumentality successful the Rafael Devers trade, could beryllium an option; although, successful his archetypal Triple-A commencement for the Red Sox, helium gave up 8 hits and 4 runs successful 4 innings. -- Schoenfield

19. Atlanta Braves

Record: 39-46
Previous ranking: 19

As the play moves beyond its earthy halfway mark, the Braves proceed to amusement small denotation that they are astir to shingle disconnected their seasonlong stupor. In fact, they fell down the red-hot Marlins successful the part aft losing their archetypal crippled of July and are person to the last-place Nationals than they are to playoff contention. Despite the stellar instrumentality to enactment by Ronald Acuna Jr., the discourtesy hasn't been supercharged by his presence. His play debut was May 23, erstwhile the Braves averaged 4.12 successful runs per game, ranking 18th. Since then, Atlanta has scored 4.02 runs per contest, ranking 25th. -- Doolittle

20. Cleveland Guardians

Record: 40-44
Previous ranking: 17

As the Guardians effort to resuscitate an progressively lackluster season, shortstop Brayan Rocchio has been recalled, ending a six-week exile to Triple-A. Rocchio made a tally astatine a Gold Glove past season, successful portion offsetting a 76 OPS+ astatine the plate, but this twelvemonth the antiaircraft metrics were down and the OPS cratered astatine 21 OPS+. He was summoned backmost to the majors aft Gabriel Arias was injured, but Rocchio had been doing good successful the minors, hitting .252/.353/.484 with 7 homers and 7 steals implicit 41 games for Columbus. The Guardians could truly usage immoderate of that astatine the large league level. -- Doolittle

21. Los Angeles Angels

Record: 42-43
Previous ranking: 22

Jo Adell was a No. 10 prime retired of precocious schoolhouse during the COVID-19-shortened 2020 play and debuted successful the majors astatine 21 years old. His power, limb spot and velocity made galore judge helium was destined for greatness. Then the strikeouts piled up, the baserunning blunders manifested and the defence looked poor. By the extremity of the 2024 season, Adell was a .211/.268/.381 hitter successful 308 games successful the large leagues. The archetypal month-plus of 2025 wasn't overmuch better. And then, it seems, thing clicked. Since May 21, Adell is slashing .295/.381/.628 with 13 location runs successful 37 games. At property 26, possibly helium has conscionable present figured it out. -- Gonzalez

22. Minnesota Twins

Record: 41-45
Previous ranking: 23

As the Twins tread h2o successful the tepid AL wild-card race, on with astir of the remainder of the league, things are looking up astir their infield. Royce Lewis is backmost from his latest injury, slotting successful astatine 3rd base. Brooks Lee, who started for astir of the 2nd fractional of June astatine Lewis' hot-corner spot, is coming disconnected a large month. And rookie Luke Keaschall is ramping up his enactment arsenic helium recovers from a forearm injury. Meanwhile, Carlos Correa continues to languish with a 88 OPS+ and a bWAR fig astatine precisely replacement level. At slightest the Twins person options. -- Doolittle

23. Kansas City Royals

Record: 40-47
Previous ranking: 21

The Royals person traditionally built rosters that catered to the contours of their ballpark, giving them an above-average location advantage, astatine slightest erstwhile they're good. Since Royals/Kauffman Stadium opened successful 1973, Kansas City has a location winning percent 17 points amended than its roadworthy mark, the 12th-largest disparity of the 30 progressive franchises. But this year's Royals person been a catastrophe astatine the K, going 20-24 with a tally differential that translates to 61.7 wins implicit 162 games. Their paltry 2.84 location scoring mean is much than a half-run worse than each different squad successful the majors. -- Doolittle

24. Baltimore Orioles

Record: 37-49
Previous ranking: 24

The Orioles' mediocre archetypal fractional isn't conscionable owed to their nonaccomplishment to upgrade the rotation successful the offseason -- the nonaccomplishment of the discourtesy to prime up the slack besides shares the blame. The discourtesy has declined from 4.98 runs per crippled successful 2023 and 4.85 successful 2024 to 4.15 successful 2025 -- and that's aft moving successful the left-field fence, which masks the violative struggles adjacent more. The Orioles person a .760 OPS astatine Camden Yards, but conscionable .654 connected the road, wherever their slugging percent is successful the bottommost 5 successful the majors. -- Schoenfield

25. Miami Marlins

Record: 38-46
Previous ranking: 27

Break up the Marlins! When Miami bushed Minnesota to statesman July, extending its winning streak to 8 games, the Fish astatine slightest temporarily moved into 3rd spot successful the NL East. But the improved play started earlier the existent surge, arsenic the triumph improved the Marlins to 17-13 implicit the preceding 30 games. They person been peculiarly bully distant from home, going 12-4 successful caller weeks and averaging much than 6.19 runs per game, the third-best roadworthy scoring mean during that span. Miami's playoff likelihood stay astatine beauteous overmuch zero, but astatine slightest the squad is showing signs of trending successful the close direction. -- Doolittle

26. Pittsburgh Pirates

Record: 38-50
Previous ranking: 26

Mitch Keller's bad-luck play mightiness yet beryllium turning around. After winning his archetypal start, Keller mislaid 10 decisions successful a row, but present helium has won 2 consecutive aft beating the Mets 9-1 and the Cardinals 5-0, lowering his ERA to 3.64. The Pirates person scored 2 oregon less runs successful 11 of his 18 starts. Even though Keller is signed done 2028, his sanction has popped up successful commercialized rumors, with the thought that the Pirates volition person to commercialized from their rotation to upgrade their semipermanent aboriginal connected offense. -- Schoenfield

27. Washington Nationals

Record: 36-50
Previous ranking: 25

For a rebuild to genuinely work, teams request immoderate of the prospects they get and make to really go stars. Washington intelligibly has 1 successful 22-year-old James Wood, who played successful his 162nd vocation crippled Saturday. At that point, his vocation slash enactment was .273/.367/.492 with 31 homers, 105 RBIs, 95 runs and 24 steals. Wood is connected gait to deed 42 homers this season, and if helium gets there, that would propulsion his vocation people to 51. The lone players successful Expos/Nationals past to deed much done property 22: Juan Soto (98) and Bryce Harper (97). -- Doolittle

28. Athletics

Record: 36-53
Previous ranking: 28

Catcher Shea Langeliers sat retired astir of June due to the fact that of an oblique strain, during which his nine continued to slide. But the A's won each of his archetypal 2 games back, and Langeliers had a large imprint successful some of them -- a three-run homer successful his archetypal at-bat Monday, past a homer, a treble and 2 captious caught-stealings Tuesday. The anticipation is that his instrumentality could assistance support this play from spiraling. "Since he's been back, there's a caller benignant of energy," A's manager Mark Kotsay told reporters. "You tin spot the guys having a small much fun." -- Gonzalez

29. Chicago White Sox

Record: 28-58
Previous ranking: 29

The White Sox person a long, agelong mode to spell but the aboriginal enactment of Chicago's second-year beforehand office, led by GM Chris Getz, continues to enactment up immoderate affirmative results. In summation to a surfeit of productive rookies, including Rule 5 steals, adhd the second-chance marketplace to their database of successes. These are underproductive veterans looking for a accidental to regain their footing and, successful doing so, possibly make immoderate commercialized worth astir the deadline. Exhibit A: seasoned right-hander Adrian Houser, signed successful precocious May aft being released by Texas. Over his archetypal 7 starts for the White Sox, Houser has gone 3-2 with a 1.90 ERA and 3.23 FIP. -- Doolittle

30. Colorado Rockies

Record: 19-67
Previous ranking: 30

The Rockies won lone 10 games successful the period of June. An adjacent bigger occupation is that they won 1 less successful March, April and May combined. One positive, though, is that German Marquez posted a 2.97 ERA successful six starts. Marquez, 1 of the fewer homegrown pitching successes successful Rockies history, is simply a pending escaped agent. And fixed the inordinate fig of teams inactive wrong the scope of contention, Marquez could output the Rockies a bully bundle of young players successful return. Of course, helium would really person to beryllium traded -- and the Rockies person been known to marque beauteous questionable decisions this clip of year. -- Gonzalez