Tiers of contending teams for the 2025 MLB season

It’s very much that time of year again, which is to say that it’s time to prepare ourselves for the 2025 baseball season the same way we’ve done it for the last few years – by breaking down the 30 teams into a handful of nebulously defined tiers.
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