Heading into October, the national media has shifted their view of the 2025 Brewers

There has been a little debate over the last few weeks about who the best team in Major League Baseball is. The Milwaukee Brewers finished the regular season with 97 wins. That's more than any other team in the league, and it gives them home-field advantage for the entire 2025 postseason.

Outside of having the league's best record, the Brewers also finished as a top 3 offense in runs scored and a top 3 pitching staff in ERA. They are about as well-rounded as they come, and their status in the league power rankings has reflected as much.

The Brewers have consistently sat atop MLB.com‘s power rankings in recent weeks, but now that it’s time for playoff baseball, the baseball world is once again disrespecting the Brewers, and the national media is changing their tune. Manager Pat Murphy always says that no matter what, the Brewers will be viewed as an underdog. This is just more proof of his point.

Brewers drop in MLB.com's latest power rankings

Updated power rankings have the Brewers dropping from the No. 1 spot to the No. 4 spot, with the Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Seattle Mariners ranked ahead of them in that order.

"It has been so long since the Brewers made their lone World Series that the team they played has been their division rival for two decades now," writes Will Leitch for MLB.com. "For Milwaukee to win the World Series with the franchise’s best regular-season record, the year we lost Bob Uecker, would feel like the universe smiling on the famously loyal Brewers fans."

Notice how Leitch did not provide a single justification for dropping Milwaukee in the rankings. This is the harsh reality about Milwaukee Brewers. They don’t play in the top television market, and they don’t have the MLB superstars or MVP candidates that exist on other rosters. They very well might be the best team, but nobody is going to give them respect until they earn it in the playoffs.

Let them doubt all they want. The New York Mets were raved about all offseason and after the trade deadline, but they’ll be sitting on their couch watching the Brewers play playoff baseball in the coming weeks.

In the end, the best team will win and nobody should be surprised if Milwaukee is hoisting the Commissioner's Trophy in a few weeks’ time.