MLB Roundtable: Are there any good teams in the AL West? Are the Giants legit?

The National League is the center of the baseball universe currently, with just four games separating the 21-10 Los Angeles Dodgers and the 17-14 Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West.

The American League? Not so much.

In this week's roundtable, FOX Sports' MLB reporters Rowan Kavner and Deesha Thosar look at the state of the AL and touch on some other topics across the league.

The Angels have fallen off after a strong start. Three of their five division mates have negative run differentials, including the second-place Rangers . The Mariners sit in first as of this writing, and it’s a tenuous lead: does the AL West have a genuinely good team in it in 2025?

Kavner: We might end up with only two or three genuinely good teams in the entire American League. I’m not convinced the AL West will have a 90-win team, but I think it will end up with three teams that finish with somewhere between 84-89 wins. I thought before the season the Rangers were the best team in the division, and I’ll reluctantly stick with that because I still just can’t fathom that the offense will be this bad all season, but it’s a real problem right now. They’ve now lost four straight series, including two to the Athletics. I don’t think the Mariners will maintain the offensive level they’ve been playing at, so hopefully George Kirby comes back soon and the Logan Gilbert injury doesn’t keep him out long term. The Astros are interesting, mostly because of their pitching, but the lineup no longer instills fear the way it did with Kyle Tucker and Alex Bregman. I think the Mariners, Rangers and Astros will all still be fighting for the division title come the final week of the season.

Thosar: Since 2017, the Astros have won the AL West in seven out of