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The 2025 MLB Power Rankings continue to change as every week passes. This weekend was Rivalry Weekend across Major League Baseball, pitting some classic rivals against one another. Some questionable rivals squared off as well, sorry Brewers and Twins fans. But the Subway Series capped it off with an epic conclusion between the Yankees and […]

The 2025 MLB season is rolling right along, and we have another edition of the Power Rankings ready for the occasion. We had our first two managerial changes this year. The Pittsburgh Pirates and Colorado Rockies will have new bench bosses for the remainder of the season. How does that change the rankings? The Dodgers […]

The 2025 MLB season is rolling into its second month. As the weather warms up, the great teams begin to separate from the pack, and the terrible teams do too. The MLB Power Rankings are back after a wild week in baseball, and a new team is at the top, the Los Angeles Dodgers. They […]

The first month of the 2025 MLB season is over. That likely means snow games are over for the year, which is good for the fans up north who have been braving the cold. Some teams are tumbling down ClutchPoints’ MLB Power Rankings, but they have plenty of time left to recover. Are the ones […]

The MLB Power Rankings are back after a wild week across baseball. The Reds scored three touchdowns and a field goal on Sunday, Tyler Soderstrom and Cal Raleigh are your home run leaders, and the Cubs and Diamondbacks scored 16 runs in one inning. But this week was about the championship contenders roaring back in both […]

Coming into the 2025 season, all baseball fans knew the National League was the stronger league. But the beginning of this season has proven that to an incredible extent. The fifth volume of our 2025 MLB Power Rankings has National League powers like the Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, and San Diego Padres rising. […]

The first full week of the 2025 MLB season is over. As torpedo bats leak throughout the league, injuries pile up, and teams hit the road for the first time, things are starting to settle. The MLB Power Rankings have already changed a lot in the young season, and this week is no different. Do […]

MLB Opening Day has come and gone and we have a new power rankings to kick off April. Topedo Bats were the topic of the weekend, with the New York Yankees scoring 20 runs with the new, controversial bats. The league has come out and said they’re legal, so expect some big barrels from more […]

MLB Opening Day is here! After a two-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs in Tokyo, the entire league kicks off on Thursday. Our first edition of the MLB Power Rankings for 2025 was all about the offseason moves, but now there’s baseball to talk about. Let’s dive into the power rankings […]

The MLB season is just around the corner as spring training begins and free agency ends. After the Los Angeles Dodgers rolled to a World Series title last year, some of MLB’s biggest free agents ever changed teams. Juan Soto signed the largest deal in North American sports history, Max Fried is now the highest-paid […]

With January already near the halfway mark, the start of MLB Spring Training 2025 draws closer and closer. As pitchers and catchers report, the hot stove simmers and teams are still searching for ways to improve their major league rosters. Based on last year’s results, the Los Angeles Dodgers are the team to beat. Entering […]

As the MLB playoffs inch closer, so too does the end of the line for more than half of MLB teams for the 2024 season. We are already approaching mid-September which means postseason races are coming down to the wire with three weeks remaining in the regular season. It’s hard to fathom how quickly the […]

September is officially here and that means playoff baseball is on the horizon. While we can’t look past the final month of the 2024 MLB regular season, the postseason begins four weeks from today. So much can happen until then to disrupt the standings as division races remain tight and teams jockey for Wild Card […]

The star power around Major League Baseball this season has been nothing short of spectacular and it only gets better as the year progresses. Some of the game’s biggest talents are putting together otherworldly performances on a near-nightly basis as the history books are being rewritten with their jaw-dropping accomplishments. So many milestones have already […]

We are six weeks and a day away from the start of the 2024 MLB playoffs and there is so much to play for during the remainder of the regular season. The most wins of any team right now is 73 with eight total teams sitting on at least 70. No team is on pace […]

When the calendar hits August, it brings a somber feeling to some as summer nears its conclusion. It also signals the start of crunch time around Major League Baseball as the schedule kicks into high gear and playoff races heat up. With only seven Mondays remaining in the 2024 MLB regular season, teams have few […]

Friday is an enormous day in Major League Baseball. It’s the first day that most MLB teams will take the field for the first time with the rosters they’ll carry the rest of the way. With the trade deadline in the rearview mirror, it’s time to begin the 50-game sprint to October. So in the […]

Trade deadline season is every baseball fan’s fever dream. Even as we speak, players are flying across the country at breakneck speeds trying to get themselves to their new teams, all hoping to join a roster that can go deep into October. But while the trades were hogging the spotlight, there were still games to […]

It’s amazing how much different the Major League Baseball season already feels. The All-Star Game ends, everyone relaxes for two days, and then the minute Friday night’s first pitches are thrown, the entire league snaps into MLB playoff mode. With barely a week to go before the MLB trade deadline, everyone is on edge. Not […]

The Major League Baseball season is a marathon, and the All-Star break is our chance to digest three-and-a-half months of madness on the field. So it’s fitting that just as we enter that four-day respite from the MLB action, the league threw us a weekend curveball. Of the teams ranked in our top 10 this […]

The Major League Baseball season has officially passed its halfway point. We know the MLB All-Star rosters. We have standings that matter. And every team is soon going to have to decide what to do at the all-important trade deadline. Needless to say, it’s a big week for the MLB Power Rankings. And we saw […]

Holy cow, did June really go by that fast? The 2024 Major League Baseball season has officially reached its halfway point and in a show of impeccable timing, it’s once again time for a new edition of the MLB power rankings. This week’s biggest risers were the San Francisco Giants, who won back-to-back home series […]

A captivating season continues into the last week of June as the Major League Baseball season rolls on. We’re just three weeks from the All-Star Game now, after which the trade deadline follows soon after, so the 2024  MLB Power Rankings are starting to heat up in a major way. The biggest risers this week, […]

When you think you have the 2024 Major League Baseball season figured out, that’s likely when you’re the farthest away from the truth. It was yet another topsy-turvy week around the league and accordingly, there were some big shakeups in the MLB Power Rankings. The big winners of the week were the St. Louis Cardinals, […]

At the beginning of a Major League Baseball season, every team looks good on paper. And usually, about half of the league is good while the other half is bad, so at some point, the separation becomes clear. But perhaps this season, more than half of the league is actually bad? We’ve played over 40% […]

What’s up with all the lackluster teams across Major League Baseball this season? We’ve finished two full calendar months and are more than a third of the way done with the games, and to this point, only 11 teams have winning records. In case you’ve forgotten, there are 12 teams in the postseason nowadays. So […]

With the Los Angeles Dodgers dropping their last five games, it’s blatantly clear we need a new No. 1 team in the MLB power rankings. And based on recent play, the two candidates are clear. The Philadelphia Phillies and New York Yankees. They’re not only the teams with the best record in each league, but […]

Sometimes, you just have to take a step back and appreciate a truly great week in Major League Baseball. Whether it was Juan Soto, Gunnar Henderson, Kyle Tucker, or Jonny DeLuca, baseballs were flying out of stadiums all week long and superstars and role players alike were producing riveting moments from coast to coast. But […]

We’ve officially arrived at the quarter-turn of the 2024 Major League Baseball season and the MLB power rankings are starting to get much more murky. Head-to-heads, recent results, and overall records all tell different stories, and that could lead even the most seasoned of ranking specialists to rank the top teams a variety of different […]

Six weeks into the Major League Baseball season, the kings have finally been dethroned. The Atlanta Braves stood strong in the top spot of the MLB power rankings for the entire month of April, but thanks to their weekend sweep at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers, it’s Shohei Ohtani and L.A. who claim […]

The Major League Baseball season is chugging along at full speed now, and we’re starting to find out who’s come to play ball versus who’s simply come to collect their checks. This week brought some long streaks, both winning and losing, and those swings in record are reflected by some big shakeups in the middle […]

With three weeks gone in this 2024 Major League Baseball season, the picture is starting to come into focus. Good teams are racking up wins, surprise hot-starters are coming back to earth and bottom-feeders are already waiting for September. Where did your team land in this week’s MLB Power Rankings? Read on to find out. […]

Another tumultuous week across Major League Baseball is certainly reflected in this week’s MLB Power Rankings. Some teams are hitting their strides, some seem destined to hover around .500 and in the case of the Miami Marlins, some just aren’t showing up for the 2024 MLB season in the first place. We’re still at an […]

Major League Baseball, how we missed you. The 2024 MLB season has already kicked into high gear, with potential surprise contenders, massive losing streaks, and historic moments galore. And now that we have a sample size, our MLB Power Rankings might actually carry some weight. There’s plenty of movement in the following MLB Power Rankings, […]

Some say the most wonderful time of year is the holiday season. Others know it’s Opening Week in Major League Baseball. Each of these 30 teams has precious, glorious hope right now, with no scar tissue built up yet from the painful losses that are sure to come. So on the eve of this magical […]

The Texas Rangers won the 2023 World Series. They overcame adversity to do so, as star Jacob deGrom suffered an early-season injury while Adolis Garcia and Max Scherzer both suffered injury concerns in the World Series. Despite all of this, many people around the baseball world still consider the Atlanta Braves to be atop the […]