MLB The Show 21 Best Teams (June 2021) - All Team Ratings & Stats

Not sure which team you want to play as in MLB The Show 21? With so many options it can certainly be a challenge. Or maybe you just want to know who San Diego Studio deemed to be among the best teams this time around? We’ve crawled through the entire rankings to put together this listing of every MLB team complete with their assigned values for speed, contact, power, pitching, defense, and overall ratings. Let’s dig in!

Official MLB The Show 21 Team Rankings

All of these are pretty self-explanatory. Speed is a measure of how fast the players can run when fielding or base-running. Contact is how good they are at getting hits. Power is what determines how well they can swing for the fences. The rest is super obvious. Pitching is how well their entire pitching crew ranks compared to the other teams and defense is how well their players field. That’s it!\

Updated on June 23, 2021.

Overall Ranking	Team	Contact	Power	Pitching	Defense	Speed
1	San Diego Padres	11	19	2	2	3
2	LA Dodgers	5	9	1	11	14
3	New York Yankees	22	1	3	4	19
4	Houston Astros	3	17	7	15	10
5	Chicago White Sox	10	10	6	18	4
6	Atlanta	13	5	8	13	11
7	Philadelphia Phillies	4	11	10	28	5
8	New York Mets	25	15	5	22	23
9	Boston Red Sox	1	2	17	7	24
10	Milwaukee Brewers	29	16	4	10	28
11	Oakland Athletics	27	6	12	1	27
12	St. Louis Cardinals	14	18	18	3	17
13	Toronto Blue Jays	7	7	19	25	13
14	Chicago Cubs	20	8	14	5	21
15	Tampa Bay Rays	21	3	16	8	6
16	Los Angeles Angels	17	28	9	26	18
17	San Francisco Giants	12	14	11	20	29
18	Washington Nationals	2	12	25	27	16
19	Kansas City Royals	23	22	20	6	8
20	Miami Marlins	26	23	15	23	2
21	Cincinnati Reds	9	4	22	24	26
22	Colorado Rockies	8	20	26	14	1
23	Minnesota Twins	28	21	13	29	30
24	Arizona Diamondbacks	6	25	27	12	15
25	Cleveland	24	26	24	16	12
26	Texas Rangers	18	24	23	19	7
27	Pittsburgh Pirates	15	30	28	9	20
28	Seattle Mariners	30	27	21	17	9
29	Detroit Tigers	16	29	29	21	25
30	Baltimore Orioles	19	13	30	30	22

But What’s the Actual Best Team?

One thing you may have noticed is the numbers don’t entirely match up. The New York Mets, for example, are ranked eight overall despite having awful stats. There are two possibilities here. The first is that there’s somewhat of an opinion built into here based on real world performance. The second, which we think is more likely, is the numbers aren’t weighted equally. How much do these affect actual performance? We don’t know for sure.

We can, however, tell you that the rankings look like this if you average out each of the main skills. If these do actually have an impact the Mets and Milwaukee Brewers are overrated and fall out of the top ten. Lower down the field the Angels and Twins also drop at least five positions each. It also shows the Tampa Bay Rays jumping from 15th to eighth! The Colorado Rockies also climb from one of the bottom teams in the league to firmly in the top half at 11th. Take this as you will. It’s not science or backed up by actual performance in the game. But if the numbers EA assigned to each team actually matters, this is the true ranking by best overall stats.

Team	Actual Average	MLB The Show Ranking
San Diego Padres	1	1
LA Dodgers	2	2
Chicago White Sox	3	5
New York Yankees	4	3
Atlanta	5	6
Boston Red Sox	6	9
Houston Astros	7	4
Tampa Bay Rays	8	15
Philadelphia Phillies	9	7
Chicago Cubs	10	14
Colorado Rockies	11	22
St. Louis Cardinals	12	12
Toronto Blue Jays	13	13
Oakland Athletics	14	11
Kansas City Royals	15	19
Washington Nationals	16	18
Cincinnati Reds	17	21
Arizona Diamondbacks	18	24
San Francisco Giants	19	17
Milwaukee Brewers	20	10
Miami Marlins	21	20
New York Mets	22	8
Texas Rangers	23	26
Los Angeles Angels	24	16
Cleveland	25	25
Pittsburgh Pirates	26	27
Seattle Mariners	27	28
Baltimore Orioles	28	30
Detroit Tigers	29	29
Minnesota Twins	30	23