MLB Power Rankings: Final Update for the 2025 Season

The latest 2025 baseball power rankings! Monthly updates on top MLB teams, breaking down the biggest risers and fallers.

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN - AUGUST 10: William Contreras #24 of the Milwaukee Brewers reacts toward the dugout after hitting a two-run home run in the fifth inning against the New York Mets at American Family Field on August 10, 2025 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images)

We have officially reached the stretch run of the MLB season, with only a few weeks separating us from the conclusion of the 162-game marathon and the beginning of the postseason.

The playoff field has narrowed, with five teams that appear to be near-locks to make the postseason in the National League, and four teams standing on solid ground to make the playoffs in the American League.

The AL Wild Card race is a little more wide-open than what we have on the National League side, with the Mets still being a favorite, although a rough August left the door cracked open for some fringe contenders to sneak into the dance if their slide continues.

The next time we will be updating this post, it will be for the postseason, when we will re-rank the top 12 teams in baseball based on who we think is best-suited to win it all.

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The 10 Worst Teams in Baseball

30. Colorado Rockies: (Previous Rank: 30)

August Record: 11-18

There was a time when it looked like the 2025 Rockies might finish with an even worse record than the 2024 White Sox. That won’t be the case, but it’s not much consolation. The Rockies aren’t historically awful, but they’re still awful. They’re the only team with a winning percentage below .300, and the only team with a run differential below -300.

Catcher Hunter Goodman has been just about the only positive development for Colorado, while last year’s breakout star Brenton Doyle has taken a big step back. The Rockies have been bad for a long time, but this will go down as the worst season in their franchise history.

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29. Washington Nationals: (Previous Rank: 27)

August Record: 9-19

The Rockies are bad, but we knew the Rockies were going to be bad. As for the Nationals, it really seemed like they might take a step forward in 2025. It’s not that anyone expected them to seriously contend, but it looked like they were on the up and up. Unfortunately, they just don’t have any depth to back up young stars James Wood, CJ Abrams, and MacKenzie Gore, and that became very evident when all three started slumping in the second half.

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28. Chicago White Sox: (Previous Rank: 26)

August Record: 9-19

Unlike Nationals fans, White Sox fans can at least feel pleasantly surprised with how the 2025 season has gone. Unlike Rockies fans, White Sox fans at least have a handful of reasons (namely Kyle Teel and Colson Montgomery) to be optimistic for the future.

Success is relative, and to this White Sox team’s credit, they’ve been a lot more watchable than many of us expected. Of course, that’s not saying much – they’ll still ranked behind every team except the Nationals and Rockies for a reason.

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27. Minnesota Twins: (Previous Rank: 28)

August Record: 11-17

The Minnesota Twins dealt away almost half of their big league roster at the trade deadline, so it’s no surprise they played so poorly in August. They came into the month six games below .500, and they doubled that deficit by the time the month was up.

Top prospect Luke Keaschall has been a bright spot, but stars Joe Ryan and Byron Buxton haven’t quite looked like themselves lately. The question now is if the Twins can play well enough in September to convince management to use all the money they saved at the deadline to add some meaningful upgrades this winter.

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26. Baltimore Orioles: (Previous Rank: 22)

August Record: 11-17

The Orioles showed signs of life in June and July, but after selling big at the deadline, they’ve returned to the basement. Interestingly, however, it has been the bats, not the arms, costing this team ballgames.

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The offense has looked anemic without Ryan O’Hearn and Ramón Laureano, but out-of-nowhere ace Trevor Rogers has almost single-handedly led the Orioles’ rotation to the highest fWAR in the AL since the trade deadline. The returns of Kyle Bradish and Tyler Wells have also helped.

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25. Pittsburgh Pirates: (Previous Rank: 29)

August Record: 14-15

The Pirates aren’t quite as bad as you might think. After losing 29 of their first 43 games (.326), they’ve played roughly .500 ball since mid-May. The problem is that .500 still isn’t good enough for the team that employs Paul Skenes and his 2.05 ERA.

Tommy Pham and Andrew McCutchen have been this club’s two best hitters this year. That should tell you pretty much everything you need to know about how far the Pirates still have to go before they can get the most exciting young pitcher in baseball into a legitimate postseason race.

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24. Los Angeles Angels: (Previous Rank: 21)

August Record: 11-16

This might be a subjective analysis, but I don’t think there’s a single team in the league I’ve heard less about this season than the Angels. Even when they were keeping pace in the Wild Card standings well into the summer, it seemed like no one was paying attention.

I can’t say I’m surprised.

Other than shortstop Zach Neto, there just isn’t a ton worth saying about the Angels, especially since Mike Trout has been mired in an awful slump. Jo Adell is finally making his mark, and José Soriano and Yusei Kikuchi give them two solid starters, but like a useless jigsaw puzzle, this team is missing way too many pieces.

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23. Athletics: (Previous Rank: 25)

August Record: 15-12

We were already talking about the A’s having a promising offensive core before Nick Kurtz burst onto the scene. The slugging first baseman has led his team to a winning record since the start of June, with help from teammates Shea Langeliers, Jacob Wilson, Brent Rooker, and Tyler Soderstrom.

Pitching is the question mark for this team, but 22-year-old Luis Morales has looked fantastic so far in his first five career starts, while Sean Newcomb has been nothing short of stellar out of the bullpen since he returned from the Red Sox. Poor pitching is why the A’s are still so low on this ranking, but with the right additions, it’s not hard to envision this team contending as early as 2026.

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22. Miami Marlins: (Previous Rank: 17)

August Record: 13-17

Okay, so the Marlins aren’t going to make a run at the Wild Card. They aren’t going to finish above .500. But the Fish flashed real talent when they quietly posted a top-5 record in the sport between May 12 and August 3. Are those cherry-picked start and end points? Of course. Even so, a 12-week, 70-game span is a meaningful portion of the season.

All that being said, the rest of the season is just as meaningful, and outside of that hot stretch, the Marlins have demonstrated why they don’t belong any higher than the bottom third of our power rankings. Over the past month, they’ve been one of the worst teams in the league on both sides of the ball.

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21. Atlanta Braves: (Previous Rank: 24)

August Record: 16-13

Michael Harris II is hot again. Jurickson Profar didn’t miss a beat despite his suspension. Raisel Iglesias has righted the ship after an uncharacteristically poor start to the season. Rookies Drake Baldwin and Hurtson Waldrep are thriving. So why aren’t the Braves playing better than this?

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Well, Ronald Acuña Jr. and Sean Murphy are slumping, Austin Riley is hurt, and Spencer Strider looks utterly lost. The Braves overcame everything that went wrong last year, but the setbacks have far outweighed the positive developments in 2025. They’re not as terrible as their record suggests, but they aren’t eking out a Wild Card berth this time.

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10 Teams in the Middle of the Pack

20. St. Louis Cardinals: (Previous Rank: 19)

August Record: 13-15

The St. Louis Cardinals find themselves in a very similar place to the other teams in the fringes of the NL Wild Card picture, sitting within two games of the Giants, Reds, and Diamondbacks.

With that said, it feels like the Cardinals are the team from that group that is least likely to make a September push. They sold at the trade deadline, after a brutal month of July that saw them lose two-thirds of their games (8-16). August actually represented a real improvement, but not enough to inspire confidence to expect them to make a run.

Still, the Cardinals have plenty of young players to keep an eye on in the final month of the season, like Ivan Herrera behind the dish, Masyn Winn at shortstop and Victor Scott II in center field, giving them plenty of talent up the middle.

Sitting at 70-71 with 21 games left to play, the Cardinals young core has something to play for, as they should push to at least finish the season with a winning record.

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19. San Francisco Giants: (Previous Rank: 20)

August Record: 14-14

The San Francisco Giants have shot up the standings a bit over the last few days, as they just enjoyed a series at Coors Field where they picked up wins in every game.

The Giants hot streak extends beyond just the one sweep though, with San Francisco having won four series in a row, starting with an impressive win over the Brewers, before sweeping the Cubs, beating the Orioles and now sweeping the Rockies.

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While this stretch has been amazing, the question is if it is sustainable. Prior to winning 10 of their last 11 games, the Giants lost 11 of their previous 13 games. Streaky team, or coming on strong at the right time?

September will tell us who the Giants truly are, and if their star players come together with Rafael Devers, Matt Chapman and Willy Adames anchoring the lineup, and Logan Webb and Robbie Ray leading the rotation, maybe San Francisco is the team that pushes the Mets in the Wild Card after all.

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18. Cleveland Guardians: (Previous Rank: 18)

August Record: 14-13

The Cleveland Guardians enter play on September 4th right back where they started, sitting with a .500 record with 24 games left to play. Still only three games back from a playoff spot, the Guardians can still dream of going on a run and have the winning pedigree that you can’t discount.

Even without Emmanuel Clase, their bullpen is rock-solid at closing out games, and Jose Ramirez continues to be one of the very best players in all of baseball, but around him, the lineup has not been very good.

Ultimately, we kept them at 18, because few teams behind them really asserted themselves to move the Guardians down on the list, but this team is a far-cry from what they were last year, when their season ended in the ALCS.

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17. Tampa Bay Rays: (Previous Rank: 16)

August Record: 13-13

We might as well take everything we just said about the Cleveland Guardians and copy and paste it into this section to talk about the Tampa Bay Rays. One game over .500, the Rays have flirted with that line all season.

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Outside of June, when they won 17 of their 27 games, the Rays have finished every month this season within two games of .500 on either side. They lost 18 of their 25 contests in July, erasing their hard work from June to hit the trade deadline two games under .500.

After a soft-sell, the Rays seem to just be playing out the string, but they still feature plenty of talented arms and a 22-year-old 40-home run hitter in Junior Caminero.

Whether it all comes together like it did in June is to be determined, but there are less talented teams ahead of the Rays on this list.

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16. Arizona Diamondbacks: (Previous Rank: 23)

August Record: 17-12

One team that made its presence felt when we updated these power rankings was the Arizona Diamondbacks, who shot up seven spots despite all of the talent they traded at the deadline.

The D-Backs have won seven of their 10 series since the start of August, their best string of baseball all season. Zac Gallen has pitched like an ace again, sporting a 2.20 ERA across his last seven starts, while a quartet of Corbin Carroll, Geraldo Perdomo, Blaze Alexander, and Ketel Marte lead an offense that has scored the fifth-most runs in baseball since the deadline.

While they probably dug a hole too deep to climb out of, the D-Backs deserve some recognition for how well they have played after waiving the proverbial white flag on July 31st.

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15. Cincinnati Reds: (Previous Rank: 13)

August Record: 12-15

Few teams have been more puzzling for us to figure out this year than the Cincinnati Reds.

They technically were buyers at the deadline, but only picked up a glove-first third baseman in Ke’Bryan Hayes and a back-end starter in Zack Littell. Still, Littell rounded out a young rotation that is very talented, headlined by ace Hunter Greene (now off the IL) and All-Star Andrew Abbott.

Nick Lodolo has been solid for the Reds all season with a 3.22 ERA across 24 starts, and Brady Singer has come on strong lately, with a 2.41 ERA in his last six starts. Getting consistent run production for their rotation has been the Reds biggest problem.

Until the Giants swept the Rockies this week, the Reds spent a good amount of August as the team chasing the Mets in the Wild Card race, albeit without making up much ground. This weekend, the Mets will come to town, giving the Reds a chance to launch themselves back into the race.

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14. Texas Rangers: (Previous Rank: 14)

August Record: 14-14

The Texas Rangers may be the team that has most underperformed this season, when you consider that they have pitched to an MLB-best 3.47 ERA and have the seventh-best run differential in baseball, yet they have hardly ever been more than a few games over .500.

Even after losing Nathan Eovaldi, the Rangers still have a great rotation, led by Jacob deGrom, and one of the more underrated bullpens in baseball. They just can’t find enough consistency with their lineup, and have struggled to string together wins all season.

Based on their Pythagorean Win-Loss record, the Rangers should be 81-60, not 72-69, so maybe the law of averages will tilt their way, and they can knock off either the Astros or the Rangers to sneak into a playoff spot.

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13. Kansas City Royals: (Previous Rank: 15)

August Record: 16-12

The Kansas City Royals have climbed a bit in our power rankings, coming off what was a solid month of August after being buyers at the trade deadline.

Mike Yastrzemski has finally given this team a leadoff hitter who can get on base in front of Bobby Witt Jr. and the recent promotion of top prospect Carter Jansen has added another iron in the fire for their offense. Jac Caglianone was activated off the IL as well, as the Royals are looking to catch some lightening in a bottle with their top prospects entering the fray.

A veteran rotation could step up in September, and Witt is the best shortstop in baseball, making this a team that can’t be counted out down the stretch.

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12. Houston Astros: (Previous Rank: 9)

August Record: 13-15

Outside of the shortened season in 2020, the Houston Astros have won the AL West for seven consecutive seasons. With 140 games in the book for 2025, the Astros find themselves right back at that familiar position atop the division.

The Astros look a lot different this year without Alex Bregman and Kyle Tucker, but the return of Carlos Correa has brought some championship identity back to this roster. Yordan Alvarez’s return off the IL only added to that mix, with Jose Altuve continuing to be the foundation for which everything else has been built.

While there is a winning pedigree to draw on for this team, the loss of Josh Hader, and the recent struggles of ace Framber Valdez have left them looking rather vulnerable with a few weeks left to play. That is why we are predicting the Mariners will pull out this division by putting them ahead of Houston in our power rankings.

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11. Seattle Mariners: (Previous Rank: 10)

August Record: 15-12

On the opposite end of the spectrum from the Astros’ consistent divisional dominance, the Seattle Mariners have not won the AL West since 2001, but have a great chance to end that drought this season.

With an MVP candidate in Cal Raleigh, who is supported by a deep lineup of stars with Julio Rodriguez, Josh Naylor, and Randy Arozarena, the Mariners look better on paper than maybe ever before. With that said, their pitching has not lived up to the billing this season, and that has this team still fighting for their playoff lives in September.

Hopefully, the Mariners find a way to put it all together down the stretch, because this is as wide-open as the AL West has been in recent memory.

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MLB’s Top 10 Best Teams Right Now

10. New York Mets: (Previous Rank: 4)

August Record: 11-17

Since August 1st, the New York Mets have hit .287/.364/.506, with a 144 wRC+ as a team. Each one of those marks led Major League Baseball, along with their 201 runs scored, and their 10.7 combined fWAR among their position players.

Yet, they somehow managed to lose 17 of their 28 games in August, dropping from a half-game up on the Phillies in the NL East to over five games back by the end of the month.

This is because their pitching has been a disaster, with top starters Kodai Senga and Sean Manaea both floundering, and trade deadline acquisition Ryan Helsley looking like a shell of himself with an 11.45 ERA across his first 14 appearances.

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The Mets have been carried recently by the emergence of top 100 prospects Nolan McLean and Jonah Tong, with McLean starting his big league career 4-0 with a 1.37 ERA.

Still, it will take more than just a few rookies though to put the pieces together for the Mets. If the veterans don’t step up, there is every chance this team can waste a great lineup and fall out of the playoffs if they repeat their August swoon in September.

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9. New York Yankees: (Previous Rank: 12)

August Record: 16-12

Sometimes, all it takes is some favorable matchups on the schedule for a team to get right.

That has been the case lately with the Yankees, who took advantage of a recent string of games against the Nationals and the White Sox to reel off six-straight wins before finally losing one in Chicago at the end of their four-game set.

That series brought an end to a turbulent month of August, which saw the Yankees lose seven of their first nine games post-deadline, before coming on strong to win 14 of their final 19.

The stage is now set for a great finish in the AL East, with the Yankees and Red Sox both 3.5 games back of the Blue Jays for first place.

If the Blue Jays hold off their rivals, we very well could get a Wild Card series between the Yankees and Red Sox, with whoever finishes with a better record getting the chance to play host.

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8. Boston Red Sox: (Previous Rank: 11)

August Record: 17-11

The Boston Red Sox entered the month of July with a losing record, but got hot and rode a 10-game winning streak into the All-Star break. The Red Sox have not looked back since, as they hold the best record in the American League dating back to July 1st, going 36-19 over a 55-game span.

One of the key cogs to that run has been standout rookie Roman Anthony, who unfortunately just went on the IL with a strained oblique. Likely done for the season unless the Red Sox make a deep playoff run, Boston will have to fill a big hole in their lineup, which could allow the Yankees to sneak past them when it is all said and done.

Luckily for Boston, they play host to the Yankees in their final regular-season matchup against their division rival next weekend.

The Red Sox have had their number this year, winning eight of 10 matchups head-to-head, which is why we gave them the nod in our rankings despite the Anthony injury.

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7. San Diego Padres: (Previous Rank: 8)

August Record: 16-12

The biggest winners at the trade deadline, the San Diego Padres added two huge bats to their lineup with Ramon Laureno and Ryan O’Hearn, lengthening a lineup that could be rather top-heavy.

Laureno has hit the ground running, smacking seven home runs in his first 31 games with the club, while posting a 166 wRC+. The competition for at-bats has brought out the best in Gavin Sheets, who leads the team with his 196 wRC+ since August 1st.

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Yet the biggest addition the Padres made was landing flamethrower Mason Miller, who has pitched to a 1.50 ERA across his first 12 appearances with San Diego. The addition of Miller is really looming large now with the season-ending injury Jason Adam just suffered.

Even without Adam, the Padres have a super-bullpen and plenty of bats to like in their starting lineup. Where they still have question though is in their starting rotation, as they hope to get Michael King back before the playoffs, and are counting on better performances from Dylan Cease and Yu Darvish.

Nobody wants to see the Padres in a playoff series, but there are more holes they are trying to cover up than the top four teams in the National League that we will get to at the top of our rankings.

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6. Detroit Tigers: (Previous Rank: 7)

August Record: 16-12

The Detroit Tigers have completely run away with their division, and very well could be the first team that officially punches their ticket to October. The Tigers did a lot of their work early this year, but some struggles in the middle of the dog days should not be counted against them when they have been sitting on this kind of a lead.

They have the best pitcher in baseball atop their rotation, and they picked up a closer at the deadline in Kyle Finnegan, who went the entire first month with the team without giving up a run. With a top-10 offense in baseball, and a great manager in A.J. Hinch, the Tigers are not going to be an easy out come October.

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5. Toronto Blue Jays: (Previous Rank: 5)

August Record: 15-12

The Toronto Blue Jays shot up into the top five of our power rankings last month after posting an outstanding July that saw them play 10 games over .500. Building off a few strong months prior to that as well, where they racked up 16 wins a month, the Blue Jays were getting too good to ignore.

In August, the Blue Jays did not further assert their dominance to be considered over some of the top NL powerhouses, but they also did not lose any meaningful ground to drop them below the other top contenders in the American League.

The Blue Jays have a battle on their hands with the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox each nipping at their heels in the AL East. But for now, the Jays are on top, and deserve to hold onto their spot with a month to play to prove they can back it up.

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4. Los Angeles Dodgers: (Previous Rank: 6)

August Record: 15-13

The next time we make these rankings, it is going to be a narrowed-down field of 12 teams who will enter the postseason, and there is every chance the Dodgers will find themselves right back at the No. 1 spot where they began this season.

Not that we will throw the 162-game sample out completely, but let’s not forget, this is still the reigning champs.

Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell, and Tyler Glasnow is a nightmare trio to face in any playoff series, and that’s not even factoring in the future Hall of Famer still spinning a low 3.00 ERAs at 37 years old in Clayton Kershaw.

This team has dealt with a bit of the World Series hangover we have grown accustomed to with past champions, but they also have the ability to shake it off better than most with their collection of talent.

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3. Chicago Cubs: (Previous Rank: 2)

August Record: 15-14

The Chicago Cubs are an interesting team to watch this September. On one hand, they are set to make the playoffs for the first time since the pandemic, having their best full season since 2018.

On the other hand, they have let the Brewers take the division from them, and have little time left to get back in the race.

Through the first two months of the season, the Cubs looked like they were going to run away with the NL Central, but ever since, they have seemingly sleepwalked through the dog days of this season. Outside of seven games played in March (3-4) due largely to the Tokyo Series, the Cubs have not posted a losing month all year.

Since June 1st, the Cubs have played five games over .500 at 42-37, which is solid, but a far cry from the 33-18 stretch they enjoyed from April through May. Having already opened up September with a series win over the Braves, the Cubs are looking to get hot again at the right time and ride that momentum through October.

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2. Philadelphia Phillies: (Previous Rank: 3)

August Record: 18-11

The Phillies jumped to No. 3 in our last power rankings due to their additions at the deadline of center fielder Harrison Bader, and more importantly, closer Jhoan Duran at the trade deadline.

While it has only been a month, it is certainly looking like Dave Dombrowski hit a big home run with how those deals have panned out so far. Across his first 13 appearances with the Phillies, Duran allowed just two earned runs over 10 2/3 innings pitched. He struck out 13 batters without issuing a walk and converted nine of his 10 saves.

The crazy part is that Bader may have been even more impactful, as their new center fielder has hit .313/.385/.488, with a 142 wRC+ across his first 26 games. Combined with the 96 games he played in Minnesota prior to the trade, Bader is pacing towards the best season of his career with a 123 wRC+.

The Phillies plugged two pretty big holes on their roster with replacements. With a new starting center fielder and one of the best closers in baseball, the Phillies are looking as dangerous as any team in the National League.

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1. Milwaukee Brewers: (Previous Rank: 1)

August Record: 21-9

The last time we updated our power rankings post-trade deadline, the Milwaukee Brewers found themselves atop the list. This was despite the fact that they weren’t big buyers at the trade deadline, and instead due to a two months of domination from June through July, which saw the Brewers win over two thirds of their games going 33-16 across a 49-game stretch.

Fast-forward a month later, and the Brewers improved that winning percentage by winning 21 of their 30 games. This has been the best team in baseball for months now, and August was no different. They entered September with a commanding lead in the NL Central, looking to lock up that division for the third consecutive season.

One key difference this season compared to the Brewers’ last two trips into the postseason bracket is the fact that they are currently in line to lock up a bye. Considering the fact that they have lost each of their first two Wild Card Series under the new format, the Brewers have every reason to go pedal to the medal to the finish of this regular season strong.

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