Anybody who really knows me knows how much I don’t like the Los Angeles Dodgers. I don’t mind that they spend a lot of money. ALL of these teams should spend a lot of money, and I give them credit for doing so. They are a big market and they behave like it, and we should all be happy about that. Every owner in baseball is a billionaire though. At a minimum, they could spend their revenue, which is north of $250 million for every team. For my money, the Dodgers are doing what they should. I just don’t like them because I like Philadelphia. We seem to meet a lot over the last 50 years in the playoffs. I’m not supposed to like them.

The Dodgers are a well built team. They have excellent starting pitching, and depth amongst those starters. They have at least three strong Hall-of-Fame candidates in their lineup. Their bullpen sucked all year, but that’s what the starting depth was there to fix. Yamamoto is worth every penny the Dodgers gave him, he is the true #1 starter on that team. Like I said, they’re a good team.

Now, will they threepeat? Shohei Ohtani apparently went full Patrick Mahomes today and called it. Maybe he’ll be more lucky than Patrick. Obviously Snell, Glasnow, and Ohtani’s arms could all fall off at any point and they could be in trouble. Mookie showed signs of slowing offensively this year and Freeman was more “very good” than great. They have some older players who have been staples of that lineup who are not young anymore. They get the benefit of the doubt until someone challenges them next year. Milwaukee and Philadelphia appear to be in the ballgame, but you have to actually get it done once before you get the benefit of the doubt. Toronto got quite close, but Toronto has to start over next season like everyone else, and then show us they are more 2025 than 2024.

This ranking will serve as the last ranking for the 2025 season. There’s some minor movement in the playoff teams, but nothing big. The next time I do one of these rankings will probably be around the Winter Meetings, when free agency gets very hot and rosters are changing. Until then, there’s nothing to really change. So this will be it for now. We’ll probably basically do a monthly ranking in December and January.

Great season guys, great season.

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1. The Los Angeles Dodgers
2. The Toronto Blue Jays
3. The Milwaukee Brewers
4. The Philadelphia Phillies
5. The Seattle Mariners
6. The New York Yankees
7. The Chicago Cubs
8. The Detroit Tigers
9. The Cleveland Guardians
10. The San Diego Padres
11. The Boston Red Sox
12. The Cincinnati Reds
13. The Houston Astros
14. The New York Mets
15. The Kansas City Royals
16. The Texas Rangers
17. The San Francisco Giants
18. The Arizona Diamondbacks
19. The Miami Marlins
20. The St. Louis Cardinals
21. The Tampa Bay Rays
22. The Oakland Athletics
23. The Atlanta Braves
24. The Baltimore Orioles
25. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
26. The Pittsburgh Pirates
27. The Minnesota Twins
28. The Washington Nationals
29. The Chicago White Sox
30. The Colorado Rockies