MLB Power Rankings: A new No. 1 and a top-5 debut

After 3 weeks successful which Detroit ruled our rankings, the Dodgers are backmost connected apical successful Week 13.

That's not the lone large alteration successful our apical 10, arsenic the Mets autumn from 3rd to No. 7 aft dropping 10** of their past 12 games and the Astros ace the apical 5 for the archetypal clip this season. Plus, Milwaukee makes its top-10 debut arsenic rookie pitcher Jacob Misiorowski continues his blazing commencement to his MLB career.

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.

And with teams playing their 81st games this week -- marking the authoritative midway constituent of the 2025 play -- we asked ESPN MLB experts Buster Olney, Alden Gonzalez and Jesse Rogers to specify the archetypal fractional for each 30 teams, whether that's a stat, trend, subordinate oregon moment. Here's what they had to say.

Week 12 | Preseason rankings

1. Los Angeles Dodgers

Record: 50-31
Previous ranking: 2

The 2025 Dodgers person been defined by the aforesaid circumstances that defined the 2024 group: pitching injuries -- and thriving successful spite of them. The Dodgers clasp the National League's champion grounds adjacent though 4 cardinal members of their rotation -- Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, Roki Sasaki and Tony Gonsolin -- are retired with injuries. Their bullpen besides has been a messiness astatine times. But they person recovered a way. Snell and Glasnow are moving their mode back. And Shohei Ohtani is taking regular turns -- albeit abbreviated ones -- connected the mound. Their champion shot mightiness beryllium up of them. -- Gonzalez

2. Detroit Tigers

Record: 50-31
Previous ranking: 1

The Yankees' Aaron Boone volition beryllium the manager for the American League All-Stars, and helium has the enactment of picking his guy, Max Fried, to commencement the Midsummer Classic. Or helium could see Boston's Garrett Crochet. But the numbers for Detroit's Tarik Skubal are daunting: He leads the AL successful fWAR astatine 3.8 and successful expected fielding autarkic pitching (xFIP) astatine 2.46 and is 2nd successful fewest walks per 9 innings (1.15) and strikeouts per 9 innings (11.03). Skubal volition instrumentality the shot against the Twins connected "Sunday Night Baseball" this weekend. -- Olney

3. Philadelphia Phillies

Record: 47-33
Previous ranking: 6

When Pete Alonso's escaped bureau dragged into outpouring training, Bryce Harper made it wide to his agent, Scott Boras (who besides represents Alonso), that helium was consenting to determination to the outfield if the Phillies had involvement successful signing a archetypal baseman. Harper continues to pass this to the beforehand office: If the Phillies consciousness they tin upgrade the squad by adding a archetypal baseman, Harper is prepared to determination to the outfield. -- Olney

4. Chicago Cubs

Record: 47-33
Previous ranking: 4

May 23. That's the time Pete Crow-Armstrong arrived connected the nationalist stage, hitting 2 location runs against the Reds, including a go-ahead expansive slam successful the seventh inning. It was 1 infinitesimal successful a highlight-reel archetypal fractional for Crow-Armstrong, who has done it with his powerfulness and speed, some connected the bases and successful the outfield. In different defining moment, helium made a diving drawback to extremity a menace from the Brewers successful a one-run crippled past followed it by starring disconnected the adjacent inning with a monster 452-foot location run. He has been the implicit package truthful acold for the Cubs. -- Rogers

5. Houston Astros

Record: 47-33
Previous ranking: 8

The 1 changeless successful a play of alteration for the first-place Astros is lefty Framber Valdez. If his latest outing -- a seven-inning shutout show versus Philadelphia -- wasn't his signature moment, that's lone due to the fact that helium has had a fewer of them. Perhaps nary was amended than his 83-pitch implicit crippled against the Rays successful precocious May. He struck retired 9 that time past followed it up with 11- and 12-strikeout outings. But helium besides is palmy erstwhile producing anemic contact; helium lone whiffed 3 successful each of his past 2 starts, some wins. Valdez has defined the Astros' travel to archetypal place; they've won his past 9 starts. -- Rogers

6. New York Yankees

Record: 46-34
Previous ranking: 5

Aaron Judge has been the halfway astir which the Yankees -- and baseball, truly -- person orbited. He finished the period of May successful a morganatic pursuit for .400, each portion amassing 21 location runs and putting up an absurd OPS of 1.268. June has seen Judge spell from godlike to simply large successful slashing .265/.382/.566. Behind that, the Yankees person gone conscionable 11-12 and seen a once-massive pb successful the AL East shrink to astir nothing. In their past 14 games, they person accumulated 3 runs oregon less connected 9 occasions. -- Gonzalez

7. New York Mets

Record: 47-34
Previous ranking: 3

When the Mets met with Francisco Alvarez connected Sunday greeting to accidental helium was being demoted to the minors, the connection was simple: In truthful galore words, manager Carlos Mendoza told Alvarez to get immoderate reps and to find himself. That would mean rediscovering the powerfulness that distinguished Alvarez arsenic helium roseate done the insignificant leagues and initially established himself successful the large leagues. In his archetypal afloat play successful the majors successful 2023, the then-21-year-old blasted 25 homers and accumulated a .437 slugging percentage. At the clip of his demotion, his slugging percent was .333. -- Olney

8. San Francisco Giants

Record: 44-36
Previous ranking: 7

It was each astir Buster Posey, the caller caput of shot operations, heading into the season; and it's each astir Rafael Devers, the premier slugger acquired from the Red Sox, astatine the moment. But successful between, it's the pitching that has made the Giants 1 of this season's astir pleasant surprises. Logan Webb and Robbie Ray person combined for a 2.66 ERA out of the rotation, making them 1 of the champion one-two punches successful the sport. The bullpen, meanwhile, continues to beryllium the champion successful the majors. If Devers tin assistance their discourtesy lucifer their pitching, the Giants mightiness conscionable vie for a championship. -- Gonzalez

9. Tampa Bay Rays

Record: 45-35
Previous ranking: 9

A batch was made astir the imaginable of a steadfast Rays rotation heading into 2025, but intelligibly not capable was made astir the imaginable spot of their lineup. Jonathan Aranda has been 1 of the season's biggest interaction performers portion ranking 5th successful the majors successful weighted runs created plus. But successful June -- a period that has seen the Rays triumph 15 of 22 games and outscore opponents by a combined 35 runs -- Yandy Diaz, Christopher Morel and Junior Caminero person joined him, making this 1 of the astir well-rounded teams successful the sport. -- Gonzalez

10. Milwaukee Brewers

Record: 45-36
Previous ranking: 11

Jacob Misiorowski pitched 11 innings earlier giving up a deed to statesman his MLB career, and helium is the latest successful a enactment of promising hurlers to travel done the Brewers' strategy implicit the past fewer years. Beating Paul Skenes connected Wednesday was conscionable different measurement to imaginable stardom for the 23-year-old Misiorowski. A second-round prime successful 2022, helium has been lighting up the radar weapon since getting called up earlier this month, coinciding with a bully tally by the Brewers, who are present successful the wild-card hunt and threatening the Cubs for the part lead. -- Rogers

11. St. Louis Cardinals

Record: 44-37
Previous ranking: 16

In mid-December, it became known that Nolan Arenado had turned down a commercialized to the Astros. His staying successful St. Louis possibly cemented what the Cardinals wanted to bash successful 2025: vie for a playoff spot. And vie they have. They haven't been flashy portion moving into wild-card contention; they simply bash a batch of things well, including hitting location runs (Arenado has 10 of them), which they've deed much of arsenic the play has gone on. Over conscionable the past 2 weeks, they've deed much than each but 4 teams. The commercialized that didn't hap mightiness beryllium the quality for the Cards this season. -- Rogers

12. San Diego Padres

Record: 44-36
Previous ranking: 10

Star players person travel and gone portion others person tally blistery and cold, but Manny Machado continues to acceptable the tone. Since the commencement of May, helium often has seemed to transportation this discourtesy single-handedly. He is simply a shoo-in for his seventh All-Star Game, is connected gait to necktie the highest full-season batting mean of his vocation (.298) and sits conscionable 9 hits distant from 2,000 for his career. The Padres request to get Yu Darvish and Michael King backmost healthy, and they request Fernando Tatis Jr. and Xander Bogaerts to nutrient much consistently. In the meantime, Machado has helped to support San Diego relevant. -- Gonzalez

13. Seattle Mariners

Record: 41-38
Previous ranking: 14

One sanction has defined the Mariners' archetypal half: Cal Raleigh. The 28-year-old catcher has taken the league by storm, starring each hitters successful location runs and RBIs. He is conscionable 1 of 3 players with an OPS implicit 1.000, but he's doing it astatine a presumption that isn't known for its offense. That intelligibly isn't the lawsuit for Raleigh, who has been truly bully astatine pitcher-friendly T-Mobile Park, with 14 location runs. The remainder person travel connected the road, wherever his OPS is good implicit 1.100. There's seemingly nary spread successful his swing, arsenic pitchers person travel to recognize truthful far. -- Rogers

14. Toronto Blue Jays

Record: 42-37
Previous ranking: 12

The Blue Jays find themselves successful the heavy of a abruptly choky AL East race, acknowledgment successful ample portion to an discourtesy that does thing progressively hard successful this sport. It puts the shot successful play. The Blue Jays boast the lowest strikeout complaint successful the majors astatine 17.8%, with Alejandro Kirk, Ernie Clement, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Bo Bichette starring the way. In the midst of that, George Springer is having somewhat of an violative renaissance, with 11 location runs and an .825 OPS. But Toronto inactive needs to get Anthony Santander healthy. -- Gonzalez

15. Cincinnati Reds

Record: 42-39
Previous ranking: 13

The Reds' rotation has an ERA of 3.76, which ranks successful the apical fractional of the NL. And that's with conscionable 1 outing from Chase Burns, the No. 2 prime successful the 2024 draught who looked ascendant earlier giving up immoderate precocious runs successful his archetypal MLB commencement connected Tuesday. The starting unit has proved to beryllium the spot of the Reds arsenic they look poised for a second-half run. Lefty Andrew Abbott mightiness beryllium the slightest talked astir elite pitcher successful either league simply due to the fact that helium doesn't enactment successful the crippled for much than 2 times done the order. Still, his 7-1 grounds and 1.79 ERA are impressive. Abbott and Hunter Greene marque for a sneaky bully one-two punch successful Cincinnati. -- Rogers

16. Arizona Diamondbacks

Record: 41-39
Previous ranking: 15

The D-backs person mostly been defined by injuries to cardinal players passim this archetypal half. First, it was Corbin Burnes undergoing season-ending elbow surgery, the implicit past happening an underperforming starting rotation needed. Then Justin Martinez and A.J. Puk, the 2 astir important members of the bullpen, suffered the aforesaid fate. More recently, Corbin Carroll, who had been putting up MVP numbers, was diagnosed with a spot fracture successful his near wrist. General manager Mike Hazen keeps fielding calls astir his pending escaped agents, but helium isn't acceptable to springiness up connected the 2025 season. If Carroll doesn't instrumentality quickly, though, Hazen mightiness person to. -- Gonzalez

17. Cleveland Guardians

Record: 40-38
Previous ranking: 20

Cleveland is slogging done what has been a hard June, with the discourtesy truly struggling; the Guardians person averaged astir 3 runs per crippled this month, portion dropping 12 of the archetypal 21 games. Here are immoderate of the players who are batting nether .200 for June: Carlos Santana, Angel Martinez, Gabriel Arias, Bo Naylor, David Fry. Cleveland won't look from the AL mud bog unless that changes.-- Olney

18. Boston Red Sox

Record: 40-42
Previous ranking: 17

The Red Sox person spent the amended portion of the past 4 months engulfed successful drama, astir of it centered astir their erstwhile franchise player, Rafael Devers, who frustrated squad officials implicit an unwillingness to beryllium a much public-facing fig and, much so, a refusal to play archetypal base. The Red Sox parted ways with Devers -- and his monolithic declaration that runs done 2033 -- by sending him to San Francisco. And now, aft pursuing that up by going 3-6 on a three-city trip, the Red Sox are simply a squad mired successful mediocrity. They judge they tin win, but they're moving retired of time. -- Gonzalez

19. Atlanta Braves

Record: 37-42
Previous ranking: 21

When Ronald Acuna Jr. has participated successful the Home Run Derby, helium has distinguished himself with his all-fields approach. Most of the Derby sluggers effort to absorption connected hitting the shot successful 1 portion of the onslaught portion and driving it to a peculiar portion of the park. But erstwhile Acuna was successful the Derby successful 2019 and again 3 years later, helium sprayed heavy drives successful each directions, hitting the shot wherever it was thrown successful the onslaught zone. With the All-Star Game successful Atlanta adjacent month, Acuna has become the archetypal subordinate to formally perpetrate to participating successful the Derby. (He was eliminated by Pete Alonso during the 2019 and 2022 editions.) -- Olney

20. Texas Rangers

Record: 40-41
Previous ranking: 19

For 2 seasons present -- since winning the World Series successful 2023 -- the Rangers simply haven't been capable to people capable runs to beryllium ultracompetitive. At conscionable 3.64 runs per game, they fertile 26th successful MLB. There's plentifulness of blasted to spell around, but veterans Joc Pederson (.131 BA), Marcus Semien (.229 BA) and adjacent Corey Seager (.715 OPS) basal out**. Some of the younger players are holding their own, but nary of them appears adjacent the apical successful immoderate statistical category. Josh Smith's .764 OPS is 72nd successful MLB -- and that conscionable isn't bully capable for the hitting-starved Rangers. -- Rogers

21. Kansas City Royals

Record: 38-42
Previous ranking: 22

With this year's commercialized marketplace expected to beryllium incredibly bladed successful talent, teams volition beryllium tempted to beryllium opportunists and instrumentality vantage of the dealer's market. Seth Lugo is 35 and has a $15 cardinal subordinate enactment for 2026, truthful it would marque consciousness for him to look for a caller deal. If the Royals proceed to slice -- they are 14-26 since May 10 -- it would beryllium logical to effort to widen Lugo oregon dangle him successful the marketplace and measurement interest. -- Olney

22. Los Angeles Angels

Record: 40-40
Previous ranking: 23

Christian Moore deserves designation for what helium did Tuesday. The 22-year-old 2nd baseman, a 2024 first-round pick, tied the people against the Red Sox with an eighth-inning location tally past walked it disconnected with different 1 portion his squad was trailing 2-1 successful the 10th. His 3 RBIs was each the scoring L.A. got -- and needed -- successful the improbable win. It was conscionable 1 crippled successful a amazingly bully archetypal fractional for the Angels, who tract a squad littered with their ain caller draught picks. It remains to beryllium seen if they tin support it up, but much beardown play from Moore surely volition help. -- Rogers

23. Minnesota Twins

Record: 38-42
Previous ranking: 18

There person been signs this period that Brooks Lee, the eighth subordinate taken successful the archetypal circular of the 2022 draft, is uncovering traction successful the large leagues. Lee is batting .364 with a slugging percent of .519 successful June. Over the people of his 4 nonrecreational seasons, helium has been getting the shot successful the aerial overmuch much consistently; helium had a 2.23 ground-ball-to-fly-ball complaint successful the minors 2022, and that ratio has improved to 0.93 successful MLB this year. -- Olney

24. Baltimore Orioles

Record: 34-46
Previous ranking: 24

There is nary bigger disappointment done this season's archetypal fractional than the Orioles, and it astir apt isn't adjacent close. They fired manager Brandon Hyde little than 2 months in. A starting rotation that was inadequately addressed by the beforehand bureau implicit the wintertime has been a mess, with 3 starters -- Cade Povich, Charlie Morton and Zach Eflin -- each contributing ERAs implicit 5. Most astonishing of all, an discourtesy that was expected to predominate has vacillated betwixt mediocre and atrocious -- adjacent though Jackson Holliday has rebounded from a hard rookie play and Ryan O'Hearn is producing similar an All-Star. -- Gonzalez

25. Washington Nationals

Record: 33-48
Previous ranking: 25

Last summer, the Nationals listened to offers for reliever Kyle Finnegan earlier deciding to support him alternatively than flip him for an uninspiring commercialized return. He has had a bully play truthful acold successful 2025, leaving the squad successful a akin presumption with the seasoned right-hander arsenic the commercialized deadline nears. Presumably, they volition anticipation immoderate contending squad steps up and makes an intriguing offer. But if that doesn't happen, Finnegan won't outgo the Nationals overmuch to keep; he's making $5.38 cardinal this year, earlier reaching escaped bureau successful the fall. -- Olney

26. Pittsburgh Pirates

Record: 32-50
Previous ranking: 26

Paul Skenes' ERA roseate to 2.12 connected Wednesday aft helium gave up 4 runs successful 4 innings, but that shouldn't instrumentality distant from his ascendant archetypal fractional aft being named NL Rookie of the Year past season. He continues to beryllium astir the lone crushed to ticker the lowly Pirates these days as, erstwhile again, they find themselves acold from the playoff contention aft having fired manager Derek Shelton past month. Skenes leads the majors successful innings pitched and is 1 of conscionable 3 qualified starters with a WHIP nether 1.00. The Cy Young Award mightiness beryllium his adjacent grant aft a sure-thing All-Star appearance. -- Rogers

27. Miami Marlins

Record: 33-45
Previous ranking: 28

Contending teams effort to crook implicit each stone to find assistance astir this clip of the season, and it stands to crushed that immoderate volition inquire the Marlins astir Ronny Henriquez, their 25-year-old right-handed reliever who was plucked disconnected waivers from the Twins successful February. Henriquez has taken connected much work arsenic the run has played out, picking up a mates of saves portion moving successful higher-leverage situations. Over 23⅓ innings since the commencement of May, helium has struck retired 33 batters and walked conscionable six. He besides has pushed his mean fastball velocity to a career-best 96.2 mph. -- Olney

28. Athletics

Record: 33-49
Previous ranking: 27

5.41. That's the play ERA of the A's pitching unit aft a horrendous agelong from precocious May into June led to a double-digit losing skid -- and it ranks conscionable up of the Rockies for worst successful baseball. The past period oregon truthful has been particularly bad, highlighted by a WHIP fig that has been acold and distant the worst successful the majors astatine implicit 1.50. -- Rogers

29. Chicago White Sox

Record: 26-55
Previous ranking: 29

Andrew Benintendi has the benignant of acquisition that mightiness intrigue different teams earlier the commercialized deadline, and his accumulation against right-handed pitching is OK, with an OPS implicit .700. His contract, however, discourages interest. He is owed astir $40 cardinal implicit the remainder of his declaration (through 2027), meaning the White Sox astir apt would person to devour a immense information of his aboriginal wage successful bid to woody him oregon instrumentality connected a atrocious declaration themselves successful immoderate projected deal. -- Olney

30. Colorado Rockies

Record: 18-62
Previous ranking: 30

The Rockies went the archetypal 30 years of their franchise's quirky past without succumbing to a 100-loss season. Then they did it back-to-back, successful 2023 and 2024. Now, they're trending toward a overmuch bigger low: the astir losses successful large league history. Despite 2 -- yes, two -- winning streaks of three-plus games this month, the Rockies are connected gait for 126 losses, 5 much than the White Sox dropped successful 2024 to acceptable the caller single-season nonaccomplishment record. The biggest culprit has been a acquainted one: The pitching unit ranks dormant past successful the majors with a 5.54 ERA. -- Gonzalez