Final 2025 offseason grades for all 30 MLB teams - ESPN

Spring training is here. Games have started. The offseason is mostly over, although a few significant free agents remain unsigned and we might yet see a couple of final big preseason trades — maybe Nolan Arenado or Dylan Cease.

But with the market mostly sorted as we prepare for the Japan Series that's less than three weeks away, let's get to our final offseason grades. (As a reminder, we're grading on a bit of a curve: We don't expect small-market teams to spend like the Dodgers or Yankees, but we do expect them to do something.)

So, who's the big winner? That's an easy call: The team that won it all last season has gotten even better and deeper.

Jump to a team:

AL East: BAL | BOS | NYY | TB | TOR
AL Central: CHW | CLE | DET | KC | MIN
AL West: ATH | HOU | LAA | SEA | TEX

NL East: ATL | MIA | NYM | PHI | WSH
NL Central: CHC | CIN | MIL | PIT | STL
NL West: ARI | COL | LAD | SD | SF

Additions/moves: RHP Roki Sasaki, LHP Blake Snell, LHP Tanner Scott, RHP Kirby Yates, OF Teoscar Hernandez (re-signed), IF Hyeseong Kim, OF Michael Conforto, RHP Blake Treinen (re-signed), LHP Clayton Kershaw (re-signed), IF Enrique Hernandez (re-signed), signed OF Tommy Edman to five-year extension

Gone: Walker Buehler, Jack Flaherty, Gavin Lux

Payroll: Up $63 million

What kind of offseason did the Dodgers have? They signed two-time Cy Young winner Snell — and he might not even be the best starter they added. Sasaki, who has No. 1 starter upside (like just about every other member in this rotation), is especially valuable because he'll be making the league minimum. The Dodgers also signed arguably the top left-handed reliever in the game in Scott while Yates was probably the second-best right-handed reliever last season.

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