Two of the best offenses in baseball are matching up in the World Series, which begins on Friday night in Toronto.
During the regular season, the Dodgers scored the second-most runs in the Majors, while the Blue Jays were fourth. The two clubs were second and third, respectively, in OPS, and second and fourth in park-adjusted wRC+. They did go about things a bit differently: more home runs and walks for the Dodgers but more contact and fewer strikeouts for the Blue Jays. Yet the end results were similar.
Given that these are the last two teams left standing, it’s no surprise to learn that their lineups have continued to produce in October. In fact, the Toronto offense has been historically good this postseason. While the league as a whole has hit .229/.306/.384 in the 2025 playoffs, the AL champs are at .296/.355/.523 and the NL champs at .256/.340/.430.
In other words, these two pitching staffs have a big challenge ahead of them. And so did we in putting together this World Series edition of the Hitter Power Rankings, as narrowing down these lineups into a list of the top 10 bats took some doing.
Ultimately, some dangerous hitters had to miss the cut. That includes two stars who dealt with injuries down the stretch: the Dodgers’ Will Smith, who returned to action for the NLDS but has slugged .286 since then, and the Blue Jays’ Bo Bichette, who hasn’t played since Sept. 6 but has proclaimed himself “ready” for Friday night. If either were clearly 100% healthy and rust-free, they would have been in the top 10. Also falling short here were players who have come up big for their teams in the postseason, including Tommy Edman and Kiké Hernández for L.A., and Addison Barger, Andrés Giménez and Nathan Lukes for Toronto. There isn’t room for everyone, but any one of those players is capable of taking the biggest swing of the series.
Without further ado, here are the 2025 World Series Hitter Power Rankings.
Obviously. Yes, Ohtani had an eight-game stretch this postseason in which he hit .121 and slugged .182. But he bookended that “slump” with a two-homer effort in Game 1 of the NL Wild Card Series and then a three-homer outburst in the NLCS clincher (when he also, of course, dominated on the mound). Nobody in this series is as dangerous as Ohtani. Nobody will be pitched as carefully as Ohtani. And nobody has as much ability to completely take over a game as Ohtani. As usual, all eyes will be on him.
The first three times Guerrero went to the postseason (2020, ‘22 and ‘23), he batted just .136 without a home run, and Toronto lost all six games it played. This October has been entirely different, for both player and (not coincidentally) team. Guerrero has been the most productive hitter in these playoffs: first in hits (19), homers (six), slugging (.930) and OPS (1.440). He’s had some huge swings already, and now he has a chance to make his mark on the biggest possible stage.
Springer already was one of the best stories of the regular season, putting two subpar years behind him and turning back the clock to produce arguably the best offensive season of his 12-year career. If that wasn’t enough, he’s homered four times and slugged .609 in the postseason, shaking off a knee injury to take the biggest swing by a Blue Jay since Joe Carter walked off the 1993 World Series.
The reigning World Series MVP has already cemented his legacy by leading his team to a championship in two cities: Atlanta and Los Angeles. He has been relatively quiet this postseason (so far) with a .744 OPS but continues to provide the Dodgers with consistent, tough at-bats. Case in point: Drawing a hard-earned, six-pitch walk off Jacob Misiorowski that helped set up the Dodgers’ go-ahead, two-run rally in the sixth inning of NLCS Game 3.
Late in the season, Betts turned the page on an un-Betts-like 2025, batting .299/.343/.557 with six homers and 23 RBIs in September. He followed that up with a big performance in the NL Wild Card Series, including a four-hit game in the clincher. While Betts hasn’t made a ton of noise in the eight games since then, he’s still, you know, Mookie Betts. With his fourth World Series championship on the line — which would be the most among active players — there’s a good chance Betts will make his presence felt.
Betts is one of only five players to appear in more postseason games since 2018 than Muncy (72), who has a .389 OBP in those contests, with 10 more walks (61) than any other player. The Dodgers know that, in big postseason situations, they can count on Muncy forcing the pitcher to throw strikes. He has the ability to make them pay when they do, too. Boosting Muncy’s standing for this World Series is the fact that the Jays have an all-righty rotation; he had a .564 OPS vs. lefties this season but .923 vs. righties.
Some of the players above Kirk on this list were high Draft picks or top signings on the international market. Not Kirk. Signed for $30,000 out of Mexico by the Blue Jays — the only team to offer him a contract — Kirk had to hit (and catch) every step of the way to prove himself. He did that, and then some. Now a two-time All-Star with a long-term contract extension in hand, Kirk has been a key cog in the Toronto lineup all year, embodying the team’s approach by ranking in the 83rd percentile for lowest whiff rate and 95th percentile for lowest K-rate.
If Freeman hadn’t grabbed hold of the World Series MVP Award last year, it might have gone to Hernández, who hit .350 with a .550 SLG in five games against the Yankees. Hernández was such a good fit in his first season with the Dodgers that both sides seemed set on continuing the relationship, with Hernández coming back on a three-year deal. It’s paid off this October, as he’s slugged .585 with four homers and 11 RBIs, which ranks second only to Guerrero.
Unlike many in the Toronto lineup, Varsho will rack up the swings and misses and the strikeouts. He doesn’t walk a ton and just completed his third straight season with a sub-.300 OBP. In 2025, though, his 15.9% barrel rate put him alongside the likes of Ronald Acuña Jr., Mike Trout, Rafael Devers and Springer. Only a handful of big league regulars turned a higher percentage of their plate appearances into big flies than Varsho (7.4%), who went deep twice and slugged 1.000 against the Yankees in the ALDS.
Had we been given this World Series matchup and asked to put together these rankings before the postseason began, Clement probably would not have garnered strong consideration. A key player on this year’s Toronto roster? Absolutely. But that was thanks more to versatility and defense than a particularly potent bat. While we hesitate to put too much emphasis on the small sample size that is the postseason, Clement has been too successful this October to ignore. He’s now only the 19th player to record at least 18 hits over his first 11 career playoff games, and he’s batting .429 with a 1.063 OPS.
