MLB power rankings: Dominant LA Dodgers already lapping mediocre field
Back-to-back World Series champions top MLB power rankings with blistering start.
Legendary NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle once floated his dream of an uber-balanced league where every team finished 8-8, a combination not totally outlandish given the abbreviated nature of the schedule. In Major League Baseball , 30 teams finishing 81-81 is, of course, a near-mathematical impossibility, although the 2026 season is already trending that way. Save for one team.
Guess who? The Los Angeles Dodgers may already be lapping the field just 15 games into the season. At 11-4, they're every bit the super team folks envisioned once the two-time champions added $60 million outfielder Kyle Tucker to the mix, winning at a .
786 clip while leading the big leagues in home runs and OPS. Yet it's the performance of everyone else that truly makes the Dodgers seem a cut above. Twenty-six of 30 teams are within 3 ½ games of each other, a massive logjam of teams between 9-6 and 6-10, with only the Dodgers and 10-6 San Diego Padres and the Chicago White Sox (5-10) resembling outliers of any sort.
Will the big blog of so-so teams break up eventually, and the standings gain greater definition? Perhaps. For now, though, there's little surprise at the top of USA TODAY Sports' power rankings.