Sometimes at this point, there will be an obvious No. 1 team. Most others, there isn't one. We're fortune right now to have three teams with a legitimate claim as the "best team in baseball" in the Los Angeles Dodgers,

Despite losing All-Star shortstop Jeremy Peña to a rib injury this week, and missing slugger Yordan Alvarez for almost all of the first half, the Astros continued their stunning roll toward the break, dealing the Los Angeles Dodgers their worst loss ever at Chavez Ravine as if it were the late 2010s all over again.

Welcome to the seventh edition of the MLB Power Rankings for the 2025 season. The last edition ran June 30, and the next one will be published Aug. 1. Here, we hand out grades for each team after the first half of the season.