The 2025 MLB season has already brought us eye-popping performances, both good (the barrage of Yankees home runs) and bad (Rafael Devers' historic strikeout streak). As the 162-game campaign gets underway, it makes you wonder: Who will be the best player in 2025?
To answer that question, we created our annual MLB Rank list of the top 100 players in baseball. We presented a panel of over 60 ESPN baseball experts with pairings upon pairings of the biggest names in the game and asked them which player will be better this season.