After a brief hiatus for the Home Run Derby (congrats, Big Dumper) and the All-Star Game (congrats, National League), it's time to get back to business with power rankings heading into the second "half" of the 2025 Major League Baseball season.

If you're counting, that's every first-place team and one second-place team that all struggled, to some extent, late in the first half. Again, sometimes you just need a little break. So many good teams limped into the All-Star break, but they'll all come back fresh and relaxed on Friday.

Now that the All-Star Game is over, and we begin the second “half” of the season -- teams actually have only 64-67 games remaining at this point -- it is perhaps worthwhile to take one last look back at the first “half” for each team.