Full regular-season grades for all 30 MLB teams - ESPN

There are still a few days left in the regular season and a couple of playoff spots up for grabs, but let's hand out some final regular-season team grades. A few of these could change depending on who makes the playoffs and who doesn't, but with the majority of 2024 in the rearview mirror, we can grade with a good degree of certainty.

Teams are graded against their preseason expectations but also on criteria such as: Did they improve from last season? Did they show some positive development with young players? Did the front office moves in the offseason or at the trade deadline work out?

Let's get right to it, starting with our highest grades.

Jump to a team:

American League
BAL | BOS | CHW | CLE | DET
HOU | KC | LAA | MIN | NYY
OAK | SEA | TB | TEX | TOR

National League
ARI | ATL | CHC | CIN | COL
LAD | MIA | MIL | NYM | PHI
PIT | SD | SF | STL | WSH

The Brewers won their third division title in four years and fourth in the past seven — they haven't had a losing season (not counting the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign) since 2016 — in a year when that wasn't necessarily expected to happen. They lost manager Craig Counsell to the division-rival Cubs and replaced him with bench coach Pat Murphy. They traded ace Corbin Burnes right before the start of spring training, a signal that maybe this would be a step-back season. Closer Devin Williams wasn't active until July due to a back injury and then Christian Yelich, the team's best hitter who was having his best season in years, went down in July.

It would have been easy for things to fall apart, but they didn't. The organization made a lot of smart decisions along the way. The Brewers didn't panic when 20-year-old Jackson Chourio struggled the first two months, instead sticking