Here’s a breakdown of how the playoffs would look if the season ended on July 24, 2025. The first three seeds in each league are division winners. The next three are wild-card teams. The first and second seeds in each league receive byes to automatically reach the divisional round. Here's the bracket breakdown:

The SportsLine Projection Model shares its MLB playoff projections while identifying three World Series best bets

Now that the All-Star Game has come and gone, there will be two days of radio silence before the 2025 MLB season recommences its march to the playoffs.

MLB Predictions 2025: World Series Picks, Standings Preview & More March 21, 2025 March 21, 2025 BA Staff 0 Image credit: Ronald Acuña Jr. (Photo by Matthew Grimes Jr./Atlanta Braves/Getty Images)

We put 28 of ESPN's MLB writers, analysts and editors on the spot to predict what will happen in baseball this year, from the wild-card contenders all the way up to the World Series champion, plus ...

Sure, some teams are more likely to win the World Series than others. They say, “hope springs eternal,” and that couldn’t be more true in the case of the 30 MLB teams who are starting 2025 ...