{"id":125583,"date":"2025-09-07T13:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125583\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T13:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T13:25:10","slug":"2025-mlb-playoff-picture-baseball-standings-projections-odds-as-yankees-mets-dodgers-jostle-for-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/125583\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 MLB playoff picture: Baseball standings, projections, odds as Yankees, Mets, Dodgers jostle for position"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Three weeks remain in the 2025\u00a0MLB<\/a> regular season. As September rolls along, the Major League Baseball playoff picture is coming into focus. No team has clinched a playoff spot, but the MLB-leading Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> are closing in on one. The Brewers maintain a sizable lead in the NL Central, and will likely have home-field advantage throughout the playoffs.<\/p>\n

The Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> and Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> are the other two division leaders in the National League as they look to hold off the New York Mets<\/a> and San Diego Padres<\/a>, respectively. The Padres, Mets and Cubs<\/a> are currently in wild card position in the NL. The San Francisco Giants are making a late-season push, but it might be too little, too late.<\/p>\n

The biggest logjam is in the American League wild card race. The scuffling Seattle Mariners<\/a> were clinging to the sixth and final AL playoff spot entering Sunday, but there are four teams behind them within three games. The New York Yankees<\/a> and Boston Red Sox<\/a> are comfortably in wild card position in the AL, but they both still trail the Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> in the AL East. The Detroit Tigers<\/a> hold baseball’s biggest divisional lead in the AL Central and are closing in on their first division title since 2014. The Houston Astros<\/a>, meanwhile, are trying to hold off the Mariners and Texas Rangers in the AL West.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, MLB<\/a> now grants 12 playoff berths — a total of six to the division winners and then three wild card berths in each league. The top two division winners in each league as measured by overall record are rewarded with first-round byes, which means they won’t have to play in the best-of-three Wild Card Series that functions as that first round. The 2025 MLB postseason<\/a> gets started on Tuesday, Sept. 30.<\/p>\n

Now let’s get you caught up on the bracket, standings and more. All division and postseason projections referenced in the standings come from\u00a0SportsLine<\/a>. <\/p>\n

2025 MLB<\/a> playoff picture <\/p>\n

If the season ended today…
AL byes: No. 1 Blue Jays and No. 2 Tigers
AL Wild Card Series: No. 3 Astros vs. No. 6 Mariners
No. 4 Yankees vs. No. 5 Red Sox<\/p>\n

NL byes: No. 1 Brewers and No. 2 Phillies
NL Wild Card Series: No. 3 Dodgers vs. No. 6 Mets
No. 4 Cubs vs. No. 5 Padres<\/p>\n

American League standings National League standings MLB wild card standings <\/p>\n

New York Yankees<\/p>\n

79<\/p>\n

63<\/p>\n

+5.0<\/p>\n

Boston Red Sox<\/p>\n

78<\/p>\n

65<\/p>\n

+3.5<\/p>\n

Seattle Mariners<\/p>\n

74<\/p>\n

68<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Kansas City Royals<\/p>\n

73<\/p>\n

69<\/p>\n

1.0<\/p>\n

Texas Rangers<\/p>\n

73<\/p>\n

70<\/p>\n

1.5<\/p>\n

Cleveland Guardians<\/p>\n

71<\/p>\n

70<\/p>\n

2.5<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay Rays<\/p>\n

71<\/p>\n

71<\/p>\n

3.0<\/p>\n

Chicago Cubs<\/p>\n

81<\/p>\n

61<\/p>\n

+5.0<\/p>\n

San Diego Padres<\/p>\n

77<\/p>\n

65<\/p>\n

+1.0<\/p>\n

New York Mets<\/p>\n

76<\/p>\n

66<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

San Francisco Giants<\/p>\n

72<\/p>\n

70<\/p>\n

4.0<\/p>\n

Arizona Diamondbacks<\/p>\n

72<\/p>\n

71<\/p>\n

4.5<\/p>\n

Cincinnati Reds<\/p>\n

71<\/p>\n

71<\/p>\n

5.0<\/p>\n

St. Louis Cardinals<\/p>\n

71<\/p>\n

72<\/p>\n

5.5<\/p>\n

2025 World Series odds <\/p>\n

(All odds via Caesars<\/a>\u00a0as of Sept. 7)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Dodgers: +375Milwaukee Brewers: +650Detroit Tigers: +750Philadelphia Phillies: +750New York Yankees: +800Toronto Blue Jays: +1000San Diego Padres: +1200Houston Astros: +1200Chicago Cubs: +1200New York Mets: +1400Boston Red Sox: +1500Seattle Mariners: +1800<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images Three weeks remain in the 2025\u00a0MLB regular season. As September rolls along, the Major League Baseball…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[592,5654,4996,64,63,1186,83712,5156,5158,5256,5257,5258,5259,5260,83715,5163,83711,5261,5262,1187,83716,1188,5159,2364,591,83709,64736,83713,1830,2704,2365,83714,5160,83717,1189,5157,5162,85,2366,1190,2367,5161,5264,83718,83710,70432],"class_list":["post-125583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-arizona-diamondbacks","tag-athletics","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball-standings","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicago-white-sox","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-dodgers-record","tag-houston-astros","tag-how-many-teams-in-mlb-playoffs","tag-kansas-city-royals","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-mets-record","tag-miami-marlins","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-minnesota-twins","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoff-picture","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-standings","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-phillies-record","tag-pittsburgh-pirates","tag-red-sox-record","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-seattle-mariners","tag-sports","tag-st-louis-cardinals","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-texas-rangers","tag-toronto-blue-jays","tag-washington-nationals","tag-when-do-mlb-playoffs-start","tag-who-will-make-mlb-playoffs","tag-yankees-record"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}