It’s always important to keep the length of a baseball season in mind, and not be betrothed to what just happened … particularly in the Power Rankings. Thus, our No. 1 and No. 2 teams, the Tigers and the Mets, are coming off rough weekend series, with the Tigers losing

The Tigers and Cubs played an exciting series in Detroit this weekend, but you know a label I didn’t hear a lot of people giving it? A potential World Series matchup. The two classic MLB teams have met four times in the World Series, with the Tigers winning the championship

If you’re a sad White Sox or Rockies fan right now, if it all seems lost and hopeless, look at the Detroit Tigers. The 2019 Tigers, just six years ago, lost 114 games. They lost 96 in 2022. They missed the playoffs every year for nearly a decade. And now?

Just one month ago, the Phillies, after losing five in a row, had dropped all the way down to No. 13 in these Power Rankings. But I think we all knew they wouldn’t stay down there long. And now they haven’t just risen: They’re all the way up to No.

The Dodgers are atop our rankings again this week and, frankly, they’ve been at or near the top of this list for pretty much a decade now. Which is why we had to pour one out for Chris Taylor, the longest-tenured Dodgers position player, who was released by the team

I’ve been writing these Power Rankings for a couple of years now, and I can say with considerable certainty: The Tigers have never been as high as No. 3. Until their loss on Sunday against Texas, Detroit had a .650 winning percentage, which would have been their second highest for

Well, it was a fun week while it lasted: While the Mets briefly took over the No. 1 spot in last week’s Power Rankings, the Dodgers are back to their customary spot this week, after a dominant seven games, reasserting their (presumed) status as the best team in baseball. Is

If you’ve watched even a second of a Mets game so far, you know that there aren’t many teams -- or many teams' fans -- having more fun than the Mets right now. (Sunday afternoon’s implosion against the Nationals obviously excepted!) Their spot atop the NL East is their ultimate

The battle for the top spot of our Power Rankings was, once again this week, a battle of Southern California. We don’t release vote totals in these rankings, but so you know: Just like last week, the Padres and Dodgers were this close. We wonder if they will go back

A fun fact about baseball as we enter the second half of the season’s first month: The juice is all in the National League. Would you believe the top six teams in our Power Rankings are all from the National League? It’s true. I would not lie to you in

We're now about a week-and-a-half removed from Opening Day. Some teams are off to hot starts, some off to the exact opposite, and it's still a little too early to draw too many big conclusions. But that doesn't mean we can't take a snapshot of where things stand. It's time

There are regular-season baseball games next week. Can you believe it? You have made it. You have earned it. A full two months have passed since our most recent power rankings, and, it’s fair to say, a lot has happened since then. So with the Tokyo Series between the Cubs

Last season was the year that Shohei Ohtani and Aaron Judge blew our minds (again), the year Paul Skenes made his debut and instantly became unforgettable, and the year the Dodgers won their eighth World Series. But that’s all in the rearview mirror. It’s all about 2025 now.

The World Series is over, the Hot Stove is warming up and there are pumpkins and turkeys everywhere you look. Every team’s roster is in a bit of flux, but we still have an idea of what they might look like, what they might be trying to add, and what

We have reached, at last, the final four: Both League Championship Series matchups are now set. Over the next few weeks or so, we will find out, once and for all, who the top team is, who will raise the Commissioner’s Trophy and celebrate by spraying all sorts of beverages

We, at last, have the postseason field. One of the following 12 teams will be putting up a championship flag next March. But even with all 12 teams having a chance, not all 12 teams are created equal. Some teams come into the playoffs thinking World Series or bust. Some

Throughout the season, MLB.com has power ranked all 30 teams, based on the votes of a panel of writers, editors and researchers. From March 18 to September 23, there were 24 editions of this feature, providing us with a wealth of data with which to track the rollercoaster ride that

We have come to the final week of the MLB regular season, which means, after Sunday, we will say goodbye to 18 of the 30 teams in these rankings. Most of them have already been eliminated; the rest will fall away as the week goes along. But they all still

There are only two weeks of baseball games left before the postseason. Can you believe that? There’s only one more Power Rankings with every team in it left until the regular season is over! We’re so close now. And yet there is still so much uncertainty. Who’s going to win

Can you believe there are only three weeks left in the regular season? That means there are only three more Power Rankings with all 30 teams before we get whittled down to 12. There are only three teams who have been officially eliminated from playoff consideration so far: The Marlins,

The last day any team other than the Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies and Orioles appeared in the top four of our Power Rankings was July 8, when the Guardians had a two-week run. (The team they knocked out: The Yankees.) We now have a new team in our top four: The

These are team power rankings, not hitter power rankings; we have those elsewhere here at MLB.com, don’t you worry. But it is impossible to write these power rankings every week and not be blown away by the amount of superstar talent on display right now. This week featured one reminder

Remember when everyone was freaking out about the Phillies? All it took was one hot week to turn all that back around. After winning four in a row – before dropping the series finale against the Nationals on Sunday – the Phillies have fought all the way back to a

The Trade Deadline is behind us. The pennant races are coming into focus. Everybody’s staring at the away scoreboard. It’s starting to get serious. It’s a perfect time to return to the Power Rankings, our first installment since the day after the Deadline. Some teams are hot -- looking at

The Trade Deadline has passed! For the most part, rosters are what they are at this point -- these are the teams for the stretch run. Which makes this the perfect time for some Power Rankings, the first post-Deadline edition of the year. How are all the trades going to