{"id":142636,"date":"2025-09-14T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142636\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T13:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T13:10:08","slug":"2025-mlb-playoff-picture-baseball-standings-projections-odds-as-al-west-nl-wild-card-races-heat-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/142636\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 MLB playoff picture: Baseball standings, projections, odds as AL West, NL wild card races heat up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Barely two weeks remain in the 2025\u00a0MLB<\/a> regular season. As September rolls along, the Major League Baseball playoff picture is coming into focus. The MLB-leading Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>\u00a0became the first team to clinch a postseason berth<\/a> on Saturday and the Philadelphia Phillies are close behind.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> are the other division leader in the National League as they look to hold off the\u00a0San Diego Padres<\/a>\u00a0to capture another division crown. The Padres, Chicago Cubs and New York Mets are currently in wild card position in the NL, but the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds are making September charges to try and catch New York.<\/p>\n

There are some tighter races in the American League. The Seattle Mariners and Houston Astros are neck-and-neck as they fight for the AL West title, and there’s a logjam in the AL wild card race behind the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees. The Detroit Tigers and Toronto Blue Jays lead the AL Central and East, respectively.<\/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 Mariners vs. No. 6 Astros
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 <\/p>\n

z – clinched playoff berth
e – eliminated<\/p>\n

MLB wild card standings <\/p>\n

New York Yankees<\/p>\n

83<\/p>\n

65<\/p>\n

+2.5<\/p>\n

Boston Red Sox<\/p>\n

81<\/p>\n

68<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Houston Astros<\/p>\n

81<\/p>\n

68<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

Texas Rangers<\/p>\n

79<\/p>\n

70<\/p>\n

2.0<\/p>\n

Cleveland Guardians<\/p>\n

77<\/p>\n

71<\/p>\n

3.5<\/p>\n

Kansas City Royals<\/p>\n

74<\/p>\n

75<\/p>\n

7.0<\/p>\n

Chicago Cubs<\/p>\n

84<\/p>\n

64<\/p>\n

+8.5<\/p>\n

San Diego Padres<\/p>\n

81<\/p>\n

68<\/p>\n

+5.0<\/p>\n

New York Mets<\/p>\n

76<\/p>\n

73<\/p>\n

—<\/p>\n

San Francisco Giants<\/p>\n

75<\/p>\n

73<\/p>\n

0.5<\/p>\n

Cincinnati Reds<\/p>\n

74<\/p>\n

74<\/p>\n

1.5<\/p>\n

Arizona Diamondbacks<\/p>\n

74<\/p>\n

75<\/p>\n

2.0<\/p>\n

St. Louis Cardinals<\/p>\n

72<\/p>\n

77<\/p>\n

4.0<\/p>\n

2025 World Series odds <\/p>\n

(All odds via Caesars<\/a>\u00a0as of Sept. 14)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Dodgers: +400Philadelphia Phillies: +550Milwaukee Brewers: +700Detroit Tigers: +750New York Yankees: +850Toronto Blue Jays: +850Seattle Mariners: +1100San Diego Padres: +1200Chicago Cubs: +1400Houston Astros: +1600Boston Red Sox: +1600New York Mets: +2500<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Getty Images Barely two weeks remain in the 2025\u00a0MLB regular season. As September rolls along, the Major League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142637,"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-142636","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\/142636","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=142636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}