MLB Rank 2025: Ranking baseball's top 100 players - ESPN

The 2025 MLB season has already brought us eye-popping performances both good (the barrage of Yankees home runs) and bad (Rafael Devers' historic strikeout streak). As the 162-game campaign gets underway, it makes you wonder: Who will be the best player in 2025?

To answer that question, we created our annual MLB Rank list of the top 100 players in baseball. We presented a panel of over 60 ESPN baseball experts with pairings upon pairings of the biggest names in the game and asked them which player will be better this season.

However, that raises a litany of other questions around how to compare players who have vastly different but still important roles across the sport. How do you match up the best starting pitchers against the top sluggers in the game? What about players who don't have much (or any) major league experience? And where do the best relievers land? It seems impossible to pit these stars against one another, but we did it — and one familiar name came out on top.

Our list features MVPs, Cy Young Award winners, veterans fleshing out Hall of Fame résumés and young megastars who could dominate MLB for years to come building their own cases for Cooperstown. But who's No. 1? And where does the best player on your team rank?

ESPN MLB experts Jesse Rogers, Alden Gonzalez, Jorge Castillo, David Schoenfield and Bradford Doolittle broke down why each player is ranked where he is and what to expect from these players this season.

Jump to team's top-ranked player:

American League
ATH | BAL | BOS | CLE | DET
HOU | KC | LAA | MIN | NYY
SEA | TB | TEX | TOR
(No top 100 players: CHW)

National League
ARI | ATL | CHC | CIN
LAD | MIA | MIL | NYM | PHI
PIT | SD | SF | STL
(No top 100 players: COL, WSH)

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