The Milwaukee Brewers have been the biggest surprise of the 2025 season, separating themselves from the rest of the league with an unbelievable 73-44 record.
The Brewers have won nine in a row, sport an MLB-high plus-132 run differential and are owners of the best record in baseball by a whopping five games. Since June 1, the Brewers are an MLB-best 42-16.
Elsewhere around the league, the Los Angeles Dodgers took two of three from the Toronto Blue Jays, but showed their flaws in Sunday’s series finale.
The San Diego Padres continue to gain ground on LA, setting up what will be an incredible six games in 10 days between the teams over the next two weeks.
More news: Dave Roberts Calls Out Shohei Ohtani for 2 Critical Mistakes in Dodgers Loss to Blue Jays
Over in the American League, the New York Yankees are continuing to plummet, having lost seven of nine games since the trade deadline. The Blue Jays have emerged as the AL’s best team, but the Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros and Seattle Mariners are not far behind.
MLB Power Rankings
- Milwaukee Brewers (73-44)
- Philadelphia Phillies (68-49)
- Los Angles Dodgers (68-50)
- Chicago Cubs (67-50)
- Toronto Blue Jays (69-50)
- Detroit Tigers (68-51)
- Houston Astros (66-52)
- San Diego Padres (66-52)
- Boston Red Sox (65-54)
- Seattle Mariners (66-53)
- New York Yankees (62-56)
- New York Mets (63-55)
- Cincinnati Reds (62-57)
- Cleveland Guardians (61-56)
- Texas Rangers (60-59)
- San Francisco Giants (59-59)
- St. Louis Cardinals (60-59)
- Arizona Diamondbacks (57-61)
- Kansas City Royals (58-60)
- Tampa Bay Rays (57-62)
- Miami Marlins (57-61)
- Minnesota Twins (56-61)
- Los Angeles Angels (56-62)
- Atlanta Braves (51-67)
- Baltimore Orioles (53-65)
- Athletics (53-67)
- Pittsburgh Pirates (51-68)
- Washington Nationals (47-70)
- Chicago White Sox (43-75)
- Colorado Rockies (30-87)
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This is a really goofy article. Noah, it’s still pretty early into the second half, the dodgers imo are just starting to hit their stride, yesterdays game ultimately could’ve gone both ways, both teams fought, losing by 1 run isn’t the end of the world, the box line stats like the dodgers getting 10 walks and 10+ hits doesn’t actually mean anything because it’s just one game, if it were a regular occurrence then that’s something to worry about but overall it’s just 1 game. Besides the huge losing streak caused the dodgers to fall back but that was due to injuries, the brewers would be devastated if they had injuries like NY and LAD, their team is built on sand and just another one of those “really good but fell short” teams like the 2021 Giants, 2017 Guardians, 2023 Orioles, 2019 Twins, 2020 Athletics, ETC.
10 hits, 13 walks, 1 – 10 with RISP, bases loaded in both the 8th and the 9th and only scoring one run, for a total of 4 runs, is not really goofy, but pathetic. That neither Shohei nor Mookie could deliver in the 9th with one out is not good. The huge losing streak you refer to of 8 games, their longest since the 2017 season, is also not good. Getting swept at home 3 times (Angels, Astros, Brewers) and once on the road (Brewers) is a bad sign. And that 8 game losing streak is basically offset with their 8 game winning streak to start the season. And hopefully they turn the corner, but their bullpen can’t hold a lead or a tie just when the starting rotation is starting to get somewhat healthy.
And finally, since the midpoint of the season, LAD is a rather unimpressive 18 – 19. That’s a long enough stretch to be a concern with their mediocrity. That’s almost 1/4 of the entire season. If they don’t improve on that .486 winning percentage, that would be 90 wins – likely not enough to win the division and maybe not enough to even make the playoffs. They have a pretty weak schedule for those 44 games, so hopefully they get healthy at the right time and play like this team should be capable of. Sub .500 is not what they should aspire to, but lately, they have. And who cares about the other teams – this is an LAD site.
That they are the #3 in the power rankings based on this is a bad joke.