Editor’s Note: This article is part of our Rankings & Tiers series, an evaluation across sport about the key players, front offices, teams, franchises and much more.
Welcome to The Athletic’s fourth annual MLB Position Player Tiers, where we rank the top 100 position players in baseball based on their expected all-around hitting, fielding and baserunning value for the 2025 season and group them with similarly ranked players in the following six tiers:
• Best of the best
• MVP contenders
• All-stars
• Steady and solid
• 30-something regulars
• 20-something regulars
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Players are not ranked individually within each tier, so they’re listed in alphabetical order. We’ll leave any additional debate to the readers. For the fifth and sixth
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