MLB Rank 2025 in-season update: Ranking baseball's top 50 players - ESPN

A week into the 2025 MLB season, we created our annual MLB Rank list of the top 100 players in baseball to answer the question: Who will be the best player in 2025?

More than four months later, we asked 17 ESPN MLB experts to give their ranking of the top 50 players in the sport this season. We averaged those lists to create our first MLB Rank in-season update — giving us a chance not only to take a look at who has excelled this season, but also see what we got right (and wrong) on our initial top-100 player ranking.

Our list features the MVPs and Cy Young Award winners you'd expect, as well as the budding young megastars who have broken out this season and could dominate MLB for many years. However, because we asked voters to rank players based on their overall impact on the 2025 season — combining what they've done with what we expect them to do the rest of the way — you won't see notable names such as Mookie Betts, Yordan Alvarez or Ronald Acuña Jr. on this list.

So, who's No. 1? Where does the best player on your team rank? And how different does this top 50 look compared with our top 100 at the beginning of the season? To go with our updated ranking, 10 of our voters also broke down what each player has done and what to expect over the final months of the season.

More: Snubs, surprises and more

Jump to team's top-ranked player:

American League
ATH | BAL | BOS | CLE
DET | HOU | KC | MIN
NYY | SEA | TEX | TOR
(No top 50 players: CHW, LAA, TB)

National League
ARI | CHC | CIN | LAD
MIA | NYM | PHI
PIT | SD | SF | WSH
(No top 50 players: ATL, COL, MIL, STL)

What he has done so far: Judge has followed his historic 2024 season with another historically productive campaign that has him on a path toward his second