Can anyone dethrone Aaron Judge from atop the Hitter Power Rankings?
Nobody has had any luck so far in 2025 -- Judge is now 5-for-5 as our No. 1 slugger this year, and it hasn’t been a particularly close race. But a surging slugger out in the Pacific Northwest is giving it his best shot.
As always, 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.)
1. Aaron Judge, Yankees (Previously: 1)
Judge isn’t giving his competitors here any opening to push him out of first place. Consider this: If you look at Judge’s season in 10-game increments, here is his OPS in each: 1.276, 1.187, 1.229, 1.380, 1.105, 1.220 and (in a five-game chunk, through Tuesday) 1.618. Not only has he not slumped, he has never been anything less than spectacular in 2025.
2. Cal Raleigh, Mariners (7)
And yet, it’s not Judge who leads the Majors in homers. Instead, it’s a switch-hitting catcher with no previous All-Star selections, who takes his cuts at baseball’s toughest park for hitters. Make no mistake: Raleigh was an excellent player before 2025, earning some down-ballot MVP votes in both of the previous two years. But he’s taken it to a completely different level in ‘25, going deep 26 times and slugging .632. Raleigh has a whopping nine homers and an .830 SLG over his past 13 games, but can he continue to rake at such a high level while playing baseball’s most physically demanding position?
3. José Ramírez, Guardians (4)
Ramírez is 32 years old this season, so when he slashed a relatively modest .265/.318/.436 over his first 32 games, it would have been easy to wonder whether 2025 would prove to be the start of his decline phase. Uh, maybe not. All J-Ram has done over his last 32 games is slash .395/.460/.653 with seven homers and 11 stolen bases. Once again, he is carrying the Guardians as he bashes his way toward a seventh All-Star selection.
4. Pete Alonso, Mets (not ranked)
After a torrid start to 2025, the Polar Bear’s bat went on ice over his final 22 games of May (.570 OPS, two homers, 10 RBIs). Now, though? The hibernation is over. Alonso is back to destroying the ball since the calendar flipped to June (1.337 OPS, six homers, 19 RBIs in nine games). MLB’s RBI leader (62) also recently hit his 243rd career homer, passing David Wright for second on the Mets’ franchise list, behind only Darryl Strawberry (252).
5. Shohei Ohtani, Dodgers (2)
By Ohtani’s standards, batting .256/.333/.385 with one homer and zero steals over the first 10 games of June qualifies as a massive slump. But no, we’re not exactly mashing the panic button over here. He still entered Wednesday leading the NL in SLG (.625), OPS (1.011), homers (23), total bases (165) and runs scored (67). And let’s not forget: He’s doing this while pushing toward his return to the mound later this summer.
6. Freddie Freeman, Dodgers (3)
Freeman has taken the typical aging curve that drags most players down in their 30s and laughed in its face. After posting a 143 OPS+ over the final six seasons of his 20s, Freeman currently boasts a 155 OPS+ over the first six seasons of his 30s. With an NL-high .349 average, this may finally be the year the .301 career hitter captures his elusive first batting title.
7. Manny Machado, Padres (9)
Machado hit .279 with a .759 OPS in March/April. He heated up to a .340 average and .954 OPS in May, but the best was still yet to come. Machado is batting .415 with a 1.176 OPS so far in June, with five multi-hit games, four homers and 14 RBIs. Five of those came in a blowout win over the Dodgers on Tuesday night. Machado now leads the NL with 81 hits, and his average is at a career-best .325.
8. Jacob Wilson, Athletics (not ranked)
It was probably overdue for the A’s rookie to crack the Hitter Power Rankings for the first time. Wilson is only 23, but he feels like a delightful throwback to a past era. Despite ranking near the bottom of the league in bat speed, hard-hit rate, barrel rate, chase rate and walk rate, Wilson is batting .366 -- a mark that trails only Judge (a player with a polar-opposite offensive profile). How? Almost never swinging and missing, or striking out, certainly helps.
9. Ketel Marte, D-backs (not ranked)
It’s unfortunate that a left hamstring injury in early April cost Marte 23 games, but he has made the most of his time on the field. Coming off a terrific 2024 campaign, Marte is slashing .292/.420/.583, including .355/.512/.742 with four homers in nine games this June. Going back to last season, Marte’s 48 home runs are 14 more than any other primary second baseman in the sport.
10. Juan Soto, Mets (not ranked)
Well, well, well … look who’s back. There was never any good reason to panic about Soto’s first season as a Met, not even when four straight hitless games dropped his season line to .224/.352/.393 through May 28. And sure enough, in 11 games since that point, he’s hit .378/.549/.784 with three doubles, four homers and a 13-to-5 BB-to-K ratio. True, six of those games were against the Rockies. But given that Soto’s approach and quality-of-contact metrics remain elite, it’s more than likely that his season numbers will be back to normal sooner rather than later.
Honorable mentions: Rafael Devers (Red Sox), Kyle Schwarber (Phillies), Pete Crow-Armstrong (Cubs), Corbin Carroll (D-backs), Riley Greene (Tigers), Francisco Lindor (Mets), Kyle Tucker (Cubs), Ronald Acuña Jr. (Braves), Jeremy Peña (Astros), Alejandro Kirk (Blue Jays)