What is the thing that each front office needs to research and answer to propel a pennant, to save a season, or to retrench a rebuild?

Can anyone dethrone Aaron Judge from atop the Hitter Power Rankings? Nobody has had any luck so far in 2025 -- Judge is now 5-for-5 as our No. 1 slugger this year, and it hasn’t been a particularly close race.

The Cardinals and the Cubs have one of baseball's oldest and most storied rivalries. There are probably a Big Three in baseball rivalries with the Yankees/Red Sox and Giants/Dodgers being the other two.

As more of the game’s most talented young players embark on their big-league journey, here are our latest MLB rookie power rankings.

Featured in this week’s MLB Power Rankings, Pete Alonso climbs the Mets’ all-time leaderboard, the Phillies’ slide continues, Jazz Chisholm Jr. and Christian Encarnacion-Strand are red-hot since coming off the IL, the Rays and Blue Jays are rolling, hope is fading for the Braves, and much more.

With nine losses in their past 10 games and franchise slugger Harper tossed on the injured list with a recurring wrist injury, the free-falling Phillies have dropped three spots in USA TODAY Sports' power rankings.

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Pete Alonso has reached royalty status in Queens as his 243 blasts passed David Wright for second all-time in Mets history. Reallocating the Juan Soto money toward Max Fried (8-1, 1.78 ERA) is working out well for the Yankees.

The Detroit Tigers have been listed as the No. 1 team in MLB in most major sports outlets' most recent MLB power rankings.