MLB Power Rankings: Are the Dodgers or Tigers No. 1 this week?

Here comes the American League!

The Detroit Tigers person retaken the No. 1 spot and are 1 of 4 AL teams successful the apical 10 successful Week 10 alongside the New York Yankees, Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros -- who cracked the apical 10 for the archetypal clip this season.

The National League is inactive well-represented astatine the apical of our list, with the accustomed powerhouses battling Detroit for archetypal place.

Meanwhile, a fig of clubs person continued their autumn down our rankings this week, including the Boston Red Sox dropping to No. 22 and the Arizona Diamondbacks to No. 19, with each astatine its lowest ranking of 2025. Will they beryllium capable to flooded their struggles and bounce back?

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 Jesse Rogers, Bradford Doolittle and David Schoenfield to measurement successful with an reflection for each 30 teams.

Week 9 | Preseason rankings

1. Detroit Tigers

Record: 41-22
Previous ranking: 2

After serving up 4 location runs to the Rangers connected May 10 and seeing his ERA emergence to 4.61, Jack Flaherty has reeled disconnected a 2.22 ERA implicit his past 4 starts. He is looking overmuch much similar the pitcher the Tigers had successful the archetypal fractional of 2024 earlier they traded him to the Dodgers past re-signed him arsenic a escaped cause implicit the winter. In 3 of those 4 caller games, Flaherty threw his fastball conscionable implicit 50% of the time, which helium hadn't done successful immoderate of his archetypal 8 starts. The Tigers besides received consecutive scoreless starts from Keider Montero filling successful for the injured Reese Olson. This rotation isn't conscionable Tarik Skubal. -- Schoenfield

2. Los Angeles Dodgers

Record: 37-25
Previous ranking: 3

The Dodgers' discourtesy has kept L.A. successful its acquainted first-place perch contempt wide pitching struggles. The onslaught mightiness beryllium getting adjacent much potent acknowledgment to the abrupt resurgence of Max Muncy, possibly baseball's hottest hitter. Muncy capped a seven-game agelong successful which helium deed .409/.500/1.227 with a game-tying homer successful Tuesday's melodramatic extra-inning triumph implicit the Mets. It was Muncy's sixth agelong shot of that stretch, during which helium lifted his play OPS from .653 to .781. For the season, Muncy has a .945 OPS astatine Dodger Stadium, but an anemic .593 people connected the road. -- Doolittle

3. New York Mets

Record: 39-23
Previous ranking: 6

Ronny Mauricio is backmost successful the large leagues. The erstwhile apical imaginable debuted with the Mets successful September 2023, but helium tore an ACL successful wintertime shot past had a 2nd country past summer, yet missing the full 2024 season. After hitting .515 with 3 location runs successful 9 games successful Triple-A this year, the Mets called him up to regenerate the injured Mark Vientos connected the roster. He went 0-for-4 connected Tuesday portion playing 3rd base. The switch-hitter could get clip astatine third, 2nd and DH, though the Mets bash person Brett Baty, Jeff McNeil and Luisangel Acuña susceptible of playing the infield, arsenic well. -- Schoenfield

4. New York Yankees

Record: 37-23
Previous ranking: 4

Take 2 for Devin Williams. The Yankees righty is backmost successful his closing relation aft Luke Weaver went down with a hamstring wounded that is expected to sideline him for 4 to six weeks. Will Williams beryllium amended this clip around? The Yankees deliberation truthful aft helium had a decent tally arsenic a mediate man. He hadn't fixed up a tally successful 10 of his erstwhile 11 appearances earlier returning to the person job. Just arsenic important, Williams walked lone 1 hitter during that clip framework portion striking retired 15. His archetypal trial backmost astatine person came connected Tuesday. And portion helium passed -- New York bushed Cleveland 3-2 -- helium did springiness up a tally successful the ninth. So, enactment tuned. -- Rogers

5. Philadelphia Phillies

Record: 37-24
Previous ranking: 1

After a blistery agelong against the Pirates, Rockies, A's and Braves that saw the Phillies triumph 11 of 12 games, Philadelphia got swept astatine location by the Brewers implicit the weekend, losing the 3 games by a combined people of 28-11. Jesus Luzardo allowed 12 hits and 12 runs successful a 17-7 loss, seeing his ERA ascent from 2.15 to 3.58. He became conscionable the 12th pitcher successful MLB past to let arsenic galore arsenic 12 runs portion pitching 3⅓ innings oregon fewer. On the agleam side, portion Ranger Suarez allowed 7 runs successful his 2025 debut, helium has since had 3 scoreless starts successful 5 appearances (although helium picked up a no-decision successful a 5-2 nonaccomplishment to Milwaukee arsenic the bullpen blew a 2-1 lead). -- Schoenfield

6. Chicago Cubs

Record: 38-23
Previous ranking: 5

The Cubs are managing conscionable good without Shota Imanaga (hamstring) and Justin Steele (elbow), but they astir apt volition look to augment their unit via commercialized travel July. Chicago got a immense outing from second-year subordinate Ben Brown implicit the play erstwhile helium threw six shutout innings against the Reds, giving up conscionable 1 deed and 1 locomotion portion striking retired nine. It came aft the squad utilized lefty Drew Pomeranz arsenic an opener. That inclination could continue, arsenic Brown is simply a two-pitch pitcher who has occupation going done a lineup 3 times and sometimes gets into first-inning trouble. An opener addresses some issues. -- Rogers

7. San Diego Padres

Record: 35-25
Previous ranking: 7

As the Padres support trying to spot up their hole-riddled lineup, Manny Machado continues to enactment up All-Star numbers successful his 14th season. Machado has ne'er deed .300 successful a afloat play (he deed .304 successful the shortened 2020 campaign), but helium mightiness get determination this twelvemonth arsenic helium abruptly has go a line-drive force. He is striking retired little than astatine immoderate clip since 2021, yet his mean exit velocity is the highest it's been during that span. Machado is 32, but helium shows each motion of graceful aging arsenic helium approaches the 2,000-hit milestone for his apt Hall-of-Fame career. -- Doolittle

8. Seattle Mariners

Record: 32-28
Previous ranking: 8

Seattle slipped down Houston successful the AL West since we past convened, but the quality retired of the Great Northwest is getting brighter. Starter Bryce Miller was activated from the injured database aft a three-week stay. Even better, Logan Gilbert was slated for a 2nd rehab commencement arsenic his betterment from a balky elbow nears completion. If Gilbert is activated soon, the Mariners' projected five-man rotation -- Miller, Gilbert, George Kirby, Luis Castillo and Bryan Woo -- volition beryllium intact for the archetypal clip each season. That Seattle spent truthful overmuch clip successful archetypal spot contempt that information could portend a blessed summertime for Mariners fans. -- Doolittle

9. San Francisco Giants

Record: 34-28
Previous ranking: 9

The Giants person slid successful the standings and the win-loss file of late, arsenic their robust pitching unit hasn't been capable to transportation an progressively foundering offense. With Wilmer Flores, Mike Yastrzemski and Jung Hoo Lee each slowing aft bully starts, first-year wide manager Buster Posey has started to shuffle the roster, astir notably designating LaMonte Wade Jr. for assignment. In the minors, apical imaginable Bryce Eldridge was moved from Double-A to Triple-A, truthful possibly helium could assistance aboriginal successful the season. For each the shuffling, the cardinal remains free-agent splash Willy Adames, who continues to labour with a sub-80 OPS+. -- Doolittle

10. Houston Astros

Record: 33-28
Previous ranking: 12

The Astros returned to the apical of the AL West for the archetypal clip since the archetypal fewer days of the campaign. They accomplished this contempt an ongoing plague of pitching injuries and the lingering unavailability of prima slugger Yordan Alvarez. Perhaps the biggest crushed for the Astros' quality to stay afloat has been shortstop Jeremy Peña's emergence into a top-10 wide subordinate successful the AL. The 27-year-old has morphed from a high-strikeout, low-walk powerfulness menace to a implicit bundle astatine the dish. Peña has slashed his whiff complaint to elite levels, losing nary powerfulness successful the process portion continuing to radiance connected defense. -- Doolittle

11. St. Louis Cardinals

Record: 33-27
Previous ranking: 10

The Cardinals are holding dependable successful the NL wild-card contention contempt an up-and-down week. But the question continues to linger successful St. Louis: Can the Cardinals enactment successful the contention agelong capable to person the beforehand bureau not to commercialized distant their pending escaped agents? Inside the clubhouse, undoubtedly that reply is yes. It mightiness get to the constituent that outgoing apical decision-maker John Mozeliak decides to add. Why not instrumentality 1 much footwear astatine the can? -- Rogers

12. Minnesota Twins

Record: 34-27
Previous ranking: 11

Chris Paddack is turning into 1 of the pleasant surprises of 2025. After the Twins acquired him from the Padres successful 2022, helium underwent Tommy John country aft conscionable 5 starts, wiping retired astir 2 afloat seasons. He had a 4.99 ERA past twelvemonth successful 17 starts, allowing a .283 average. He allowed 9 runs successful his archetypal commencement this year, but helium has posted a 2.47 ERA since then. He past enjoyed his champion outing of the play connected Sunday successful Seattle, allowing 1 tally successful 8 innings with 10 strikeouts portion throwing 110 pitches (although helium came distant with a no-decision successful a 2-1 loss). -- Schoenfield

13. Milwaukee Brewers

Record: 34-29
Previous ranking: 20

Finally. The Brewers are showing immoderate life. An eight-game triumph streak that ended Tuesday nighttime vaulted them into the playoff picture. Their violative surge has been led by Christian Yelich -- who deed .414 with a 1.1313 OPS during the triumph streak -- but he's not the lone 1 doing damage. Jackson Chourio and Sal Frelick besides had large weeks, contributing to a expanse successful Philadelphia for the team's signature bid triumph truthful acold this season. -- Rogers

14. Cleveland Guardians

Record: 33-27
Previous ranking: 14

Jose Ramirez has been connected extended blistery streak. He had a 21-game hitting streak successful May that included 11 multihit outings. After a hitless crippled connected Friday, helium followed with 3 consecutive two-hit games, raising his mean to .330. Ramirez past deed .300 backmost successful 2017, and his existent OPS+ would beryllium the 2nd highest of his career, down lone the shortened 2020 season. He mightiness not attack a 40/40 play similar past year, erstwhile helium fell 1 location tally short, but helium could beryllium headed for a 3rd 30/30 campaign. He should beryllium the casual All-Star starter astatine 3rd basal for his 4th commencement successful the Midsummer Classic and seventh selection. -- Schoenfield

15. Tampa Bay Rays

Record: 30-29
Previous ranking: 16

Junior Caminero is heating up, hitting .400 implicit a 10-game agelong that ended Tuesday. He deed 5 location runs and drove successful a whopping 17 runs during that span, including a two-homer crippled against Houston implicit the weekend. He added different blast successful Tuesday's triumph implicit Texas. He has been each implicit fastballs lately, hitting .292 connected the play against them. His bat has helped propulsion the Rays past .500 and backmost into the AL playoff race. -- Rogers

16. Atlanta Braves

Record: 27-33
Previous ranking: 15

Ronald Acuña Jr. has been terrific successful his instrumentality from genu surgery, hitting .341/.413/.610 with 3 location runs successful his archetypal 11 games back. But the Braves besides request a assistance from Spencer Strider -- and helium hasn't delivered it conscionable yet. Strider made 1 commencement successful April successful his instrumentality from Tommy John surgery, but a hamstring wounded caused him to miss a month. In 3 starts since coming disconnected the IL, helium has allowed 10 runs successful 14 innings portion walking 7 batters and hitting three. He besides served up 3 location runs successful a nonaccomplishment to Arizona connected Tuesday. It hasn't helped that the lineup continues to scuffle, scoring conscionable 1 tally successful each of 2 losses to the Red Sox. -- Schoenfield

17. Kansas City Royals

Record: 32-29
Previous ranking: 17

After tearing done Double-A and Triple-A, hitting .322 with 15 location runs successful 50 games, Jac Caglianone made his highly anticipated MLB debut connected Tuesday, going 0-for-5 successful a 10-7 triumph implicit St. Louis. He deed sixth and served arsenic the DH (after opening to spot immoderate outfield reps successful the minors). Despite the hitless outing, Caglianone showed disconnected his potential, arsenic helium had 4 hard-hit balls of 95-plus mph. Three of those were groundouts, and 1 was a thrust into right-center successful his archetypal at-bat that Cardinals halfway fielder Victor Scott II made a good moving drawback on. -- Schoenfield

18. Toronto Blue Jays

Record: 32-29
Previous ranking: 22

Toronto's discourtesy came to play against the A's during a four-game expanse past week. The Blue Jays totaled 39 runs, led by Addison Barger, Bo Bichette and George Springer. Each had 3 location runs during Toronto's five-game triumph streak, which ended connected Tuesday successful a nonaccomplishment to the Phillies. Thanks to the bid against the pitching-challenged A's, Toronto boasted the highest OPS of immoderate squad past week. The question is whether it tin proceed against amended opponents. That hasn't ever been the lawsuit this play for the Jays; spot Tuesday's 8-3 nonaccomplishment to the Phillies arsenic evidence. -- Rogers

19. Arizona Diamondbacks

Record: 30-31
Previous ranking: 13

The Diamondbacks appeared to beryllium astir apt to situation the Dodgers successful the NL West. That could inactive happen. But for now, Arizona mightiness situation L.A. for the rubric of astir disappointing starting rotation, astatine slightest among expected contenders. Arizona's 23rd-ranked rotation ERA is atrocious enough. Then came this zinger: Ace Corbin Burnes, helium of the $210 cardinal contract, is connected the IL with an elbow problem, the circumstantial diagnosis of which has initially proved to beryllium elusive. Not great. -- Doolittle

20. Texas Rangers

Record: 29-33
Previous ranking: 21

The Rangers' up-and-down commencement to the play has near them astir precisely mediocre, which isn't precisely what they were shooting for. It has felt similar each affirmative improvement that's happened for Texas since Opening Day has been accompanied by an equivalent gut punch. The signifier continued past week, erstwhile Marcus Semien showed signs of catching occurrence aft foundering the archetypal 2 months arsenic 1 of baseball's slightest productive hitters. Alas, ace Nathan Eovaldi deed the IL with triceps fatigue, weakening a rotation large 3 (Eovaldi, Jacob deGrom and Tyler Mahle) that has kept Texas successful the realm of contention. And truthful connected it goes. -- Doolittle

21. Cincinnati Reds

Record: 30-33
Previous ranking: 19

TJ Friedl has fixed the Reds a needed boost astatine the plate, collecting 10 multihit games since May 19. The 29-year-old outfielder is having a resurgent play aft seeing his OPS driblet beneath .700 past year. This year, helium has deed much successful enactment with his 2023 campaign, erstwhile helium smacked 18 location runs and compiled a .352 on-base percentage. He is showing a small little powerfulness than 2 years ago, but his on-base has changeable up implicit .380, and helium is hitting implicit .360 disconnected fastballs. -- Rogers

22. Boston Red Sox

Record: 30-34
Previous ranking: 18

The Red Sox's discourtesy looks pedestrian without Alex Bregman, who's been retired with a close quad wounded since precocious past month. The squad ranks successful the bottommost 3rd successful tally scoring during that clip frame. Wilyer Abreu and Trevor Story person struggled the most, striking retired astir six times much than they've walked implicit the past half-month. That's a look for immoderate disfigured at-bats. Fortunately, Rafael Devers has picked up the slack, averaging much than an RBI per crippled during Bregman's absence. But Boston needs idiosyncratic other to measurement up, arsenic Bregman is going to beryllium retired for a while. Boston's grounds arsenic of precocious reflects its struggles. -- Rogers

23. Washington Nationals

Record: 29-32
Previous ranking: 24

The Nationals had a bully roadworthy trip, winning 2 of 3 successful Seattle and successful Phoenix arsenic the discourtesy exploded for astatine slightest 9 runs successful 4 consecutive games. The highlights included a seven-run 10th inning against the Mariners and a 10-run archetypal inning against the Diamondbacks successful which the archetypal 11 batters each reached basal and 5 doubles were tallied. During the second contest, the Nats scored 9 runs earlier an retired was recorded, the 2nd astir successful a archetypal inning since 1961. (The Red Sox scored 10 against the Marlins successful 2003.) Luis Garcia had 8 hits and six RBIs implicit the 4 outings, portion the red-hot James Wood homered doubly and drove successful 7 runs. -- Schoenfield

24. Los Angeles Angels

Record: 28-33
Previous ranking: 23

The Angels person played the astir roadworthy games successful the majors, which has made their roller-coaster (but encouraging) commencement that overmuch much impressive. Even better, they've played good distant from Anaheim, mostly remaining connected the blessed broadside of .500. The upside of specified a road-heavy slate is that, by definition, the remainder of their docket volition beryllium MLB's astir home-heavy. For the Angels to instrumentality advantage, though, they request to really commencement holding down the fort astatine the Big A, wherever they've gone 10-15. The hitters fertile 5th successful scoring connected the roadworthy but 30th astatine home. That needs to alteration -- Doolittle

25. Baltimore Orioles

Record: 24-36
Previous ranking: 27

Could a play expanse of an AL hostile mean the Orioles are back? Not likely, erstwhile you see it was the lowly White Sox who failed to triumph a crippled successful Baltimore. Even successful taking the trio of games, the O's lone scored 9 runs; but astatine slightest they pitched well, thing that has eluded them for astir of the season. That carried implicit to a 5-1 triumph astatine Seattle connected Tuesday. Charlie Morton besides has had a mates of bully outings successful a enactment that person led to wins. Perhaps helium tin close the vessel capable to get traded, since it's inactive a immense agelong changeable for Baltimore to get backmost into the playoff race. -- Rogers

26. Pittsburgh Pirates

Record: 23-39
Previous ranking: 28

OK, clip for that yearly exercise: Who connected the Pirates tin beryllium unloaded to assistance different teams travel commercialized season? Veteran infielder Isiah Kiner-Falefa comes to mind. Andrew McCutchen, Tommy Pham, Adam Frazier and Andrew Heaney too. In different words, conscionable astir anyone this broadside of Paul Skenes tin beryllium had. If the Pirates tin get adjacent 1 hitting imaginable to brace with Oneil Cruz, it would help. Cruz is their apical hitter close now, ranking 40th successful OPS successful MLB. The adjacent Pirate connected the database is the 38-year-old McCutchen, astatine 81st. -- Rogers

27. Miami Marlins

Record: 23-37
Previous ranking: 26

The Marlins became the archetypal squad to suffer a bid against the Rockies this play -- and past the archetypal to beryllium swept by Colorado aft dropping the last crippled successful Miami. Monday's announced location attendance was 5,894, which was a generous appraisal of the existent in-game crowd. Pictures of a astir bare stadium astatine archetypal transportation filled societal media. The crippled ended with a 6-4 loss. The Marlins had plentifulness of scoring opportunities but went conscionable 3-for-16 with runners successful scoring position. -- Schoenfield

28. Athletics

Record: 23-40
Previous ranking: 25

After showing immoderate aboriginal signs of respectability and adjacent a imaginable fringe tally astatine a wild-card slot, the Athletics collapsed similar the conception of a Jenga subordinate who's had 1 excessively many. The culprit has been pitching, peculiarly successful the rotation, an country the A's had hoped would beryllium solid. Since the A's topped retired astatine 4 games implicit .500 (20-16), the starters person gone 3-24 with an ERA astir 7.00, which is, unsurprisingly, the worst people successful the majors implicit that span. Double-digit outputs by the absorption person go the norm -- arsenic successful 10 times implicit the Athletics' past 25 games. -- Doolittle

29. Chicago White Sox

Record: 19-43
Previous ranking: 29

Down connected the farm, determination person been mixed reviews of Chicago's highly regarded apical 5 prospects. Hagen Smith had pitched conscionable 25 innings successful 7 starts with 20 walks (although 42 strikeouts) successful Double-A earlier going connected the IL with elbow soreness. Colson Montgomery is hitting .191 successful Triple-A. Noah Schultz has a precocious WHIP successful Double-A (47 hits and 28 walks successful 46 IP). Kyle Teel has deed good successful Triple-A (.287/.389/.483) but has 54 strikeouts successful 49 games. Braden Montgomery did gain a promotion to High-A but is hitting .246 determination aft hitting .304 successful Single-A. Teel is astir apt to marque his MLB debut this year, though there's small request to unreserved him with Edgar Quero and Matt Thaiss sharing catching duties. -- Schoenfield

30. Colorado Rockies

Record: 12-50
Previous ranking: 30

When a squad is connected gait to shatter the all-time nonaccomplishment record, you don't mostly expect immoderate facet of that squad to really beryllium good. However, the Colorado bullpen -- contempt having precious fewer leads to support -- has been positively not wholly terrible. (It's each relative, of course.) For the Rockies, this could beryllium much than a motivation triumph during a tortuously mislaid season. As the commercialized deadline approaches, Colorado mightiness beryllium capable to capitalize connected the always-busy derby for in-season bullpen help. Sure to pull calls are Seth Halvorsen and Jake Bird. -- Doolittle