Three weeks stay within the 2025 MLB common season. As September rolls alongside, the Main League Baseball playoff image is coming into focus. No staff has clinched a playoff spot, however the MLB-leading Milwaukee Brewers are closing in on one. The Brewers keep a large lead within the NL Central, and can seemingly have home-field benefit all through the playoffs.
The Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers are the opposite two division leaders within the Nationwide League as they appear to carry off the New York Mets and San Diego Padres, respectively. The Padres, Mets and Cubs are at present in wild card place within the NL. The San Francisco Giants are making a late-season push, but it surely is likely to be too little, too late.
The most important logjam is within the American League wild card race. The scuffling Seattle Mariners are clinging to the sixth and last AL playoff spot, however a number of groups are nipping at their heels. The New York Yankees and Boston Pink Sox are comfortably in wild card place within the AL, however they each nonetheless path the Toronto Blue Jays within the AL East. The Detroit Tigers maintain baseball’s largest divisional lead within the AL Central and are closing in on their first division title since 2014. The Houston Astros, in the meantime, are attempting to carry off the Mariners and Texas Rangers within the AL West.
As a reminder, MLB now grants 12 playoff berths — a complete of six to the division winners after which three wild card berths in every league. The highest two division winners in every league as measured by general report are rewarded with first-round byes, which suggests they will not should play within the best-of-three Wild Card Sequence that capabilities as that first spherical. The 2025 MLB postseason will get began on Tuesday, Sept. 30.
Now let’s get you caught up on the bracket, standings and extra. All division and postseason projections referenced within the standings come from SportsLine.
2025 MLB playoff image
If the season ended as we speak…
AL byes: No. 1 Blue Jays and No. 2 Tigers
AL Wild Card Sequence: No. 3 Astros vs. No. 6 Mariners
No. 4 Yankees vs. No. 5 Pink Sox
NL byes: No. 1 Brewers and No. 2 Phillies
NL Wild Card Sequence: No. 3 Dodgers vs. No. 6 Mets
No. 4 Cubs vs. No. 5 Padres
American League standings
Nationwide League standings
MLB wild card standings
|
New York Yankees |
80 |
63 |
+4.5 |
|
Boston Pink Sox |
80 |
65 |
+3.5 |
|
Seattle Mariners |
76 |
68 |
— |
|
Texas Rangers |
75 |
70 |
1.5 |
|
Cleveland Guardians |
73 |
70 |
2.5 |
|
Kansas Metropolis Royals |
73 |
71 |
3.0 |
|
Tampa Bay Rays |
71 |
72 |
4.5 |
|
Chicago Cubs |
81 |
63 |
+5.0 |
|
San Diego Padres |
79 |
65 |
+3.0 |
|
New York Mets |
76 |
68 |
— |
|
San Francisco Giants |
73 |
71 |
3.0 |
|
Cincinnati Reds |
72 |
72 |
4.0 |
|
Arizona Diamondbacks |
72 |
73 |
4.5 |
|
St. Louis Cardinals |
72 |
73 |
4.5 |
2025 World Sequence odds
(All odds by way of Caesars as of Sept. 9)
- Los Angeles Dodgers: +400
- Milwaukee Brewers: +650
- Philadelphia Phillies: +650
- New York Yankees: +800
- Detroit Tigers: +800
- Toronto Blue Jays: +1000
- San Diego Padres: +1200
- Houston Astros: +1200
- Chicago Cubs: +1400
- Seattle Mariners: +1400
- Boston Pink Sox: +1600
- New York Mets: +1600
