The stars are out in New York and Los Angeles in the latest edition of our Hitter Power Rankings.
The Hitter Power Rankings are based on a formula, constructed by MLB.com’s data team, that considers players’ recent performance, season-long performance and performance over the past 365 days. Those three categories are weighted so as to place the greatest emphasis on the first two.
Here are the newest Hitter Power Rankings. (All stats are through Tuesday’s games.)
Judge has a stranglehold on the top spot as he continues his historic run. A month and a half into the season, he’s still batting over. 400, and he leads the Majors in basically every hitting statistic — including all three Triple Crown categories. Judge is No. 1 in batting average (.410), on-base percentage (.497), slugging percentage (.770), OPS (1.268), home runs (14) and RBIs (40).
Shohei has been on a hot streak and is playing like he wants his third straight MVP. On the season, he’s now batting .302 with 12 home runs, 10 stolen bases, a 1.035 OPS and a Major League-leading 44 runs scored. Ohtani is one of only three players with double-digit homers and steals this season, along with the Cubs duo of Kyle Tucker and Pete Crow-Armstrong. After his 50-50 season last year, he’s just about on a 40-40 pace so far in 2025.
Freeman has been right up there with his superstar teammate Ohtani, and he’s rocketed into the top five of the Hitter Power Rankings. The World Series MVP is leading the National League batting race with a .366 average, and he also leads the league in on-base percentage (.431), slugging (.714) and OPS (1.145). Since the last Hitter Power Rankings came out at the start of May, Freeman is batting .442 with four home runs and 16 RBIs.
The Polar Bear’s huge season continues. He leads the NL with 15 doubles and 36 RBIs while batting .310 with a 1.008 OPS. With nine home runs, Alonso is on pace for yet another 30-homer season — he’s never failed to eclipse that mark in his five full big league seasons. He just notched his first walk-off of the season, a sac fly to beat the Pirates on a Paul Skenes start day on Monday.
Soto’s “slow” start to the season would’ve been a great start for most Major League hitters. But since the calendar flipped to May, he’s turned it up to the typical Juan Soto level: a 1.077 OPS this month with five home runs, including a pair of multi-homer games.
Bregman has kept up his stellar start with his new team. He has 10 home runs and is batting .304 and slugging .567 with a .949 OPS, setting him up for his best offensive season since 2019, when he was the AL MVP runner-up for the Astros. Bregman’s slugged five homers in his last 14 games.
The 2024 AL MVP runner-up has been electric as usual in 2025. Witt’s 22-game hitting streak came to an end on May 2, but he still has a .952 OPS this month with three home runs and five stolen bases. On the season, Witt is batting .312 with five homers, 14 steals and a Major League-high 17 doubles.
Tatis crushed the first walk-off home run of his career against the Angels on Tuesday, and that was just the latest big hit in his monster season. The Padres star is batting .316 with 11 home runs, eight stolen bases and a .963 OPS, including three long balls in his last four games.
Lindor has gotten off to a much better start this year than last year — and last year he still went on to finish second to Ohtani in the NL MVP race. Lindor leads the National League with 52 hits, and he’s batting .302 this season with nine home runs and six stolen bases. He gives the Mets three players in the top 10 of these Hitter Power Rankings.
Honorable mentions: José Ramírez (Guardians), Cal Raleigh (Mariners), Rafael Devers (Red Sox), Paul Goldschmidt (Yankees), Jackson Merrill (Padres), Corbin Carroll (D-backs), Pete Crow-Armstrong (Cubs)
