The Blue Jays rankings in MLB The Show 25 are a bit puzzling

A year after being on the cover of MLB The Show 24, Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is once again the highest-rated Blue Jays in this year's iteration of the game.

On Wednesday, San Diego Studio held a livestream in conjunction with MLB where they revealed the top seven players for all 30 MLB teams, with Guerrero coming in at a 90 overall for the second season in a row.

The top seven Blue Jays are as follows:

1. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (90)
2. Anthony Santander (87)
3. Jeff Hoffman (86)
4. Kevin Gausman (83)
5. Andrés Giménez (82)
6. Daulton Varsho (82)
7. Yimi García (82)

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. tops Blue Jays MLB The Show rankings

It's no surprise to see Guerrero at the top of the list considering he's one of the best first baseman in all of baseball. In fact, according to San Diego Studio, he's the second-best first baseman in baseball, as his 90 rating was tied with Freddie Freeman for the second-best mark at the position. Bryce Harper was in first with a 95 overall.

Elsewhere, Giménez was tied with Alex Bregman as the eighth-highest rating among second baseman. He came in two points higher than Brice Turang and one point lower than Brandon Lowe and Bryson Stott.

Anthony Satander finished in a five-way tie in the No. 10 spot for outfielder rankings, while is impressive considering two of the outfielders ahead of him (Aaron Judge and Juan Soto) are in the 99 club. Santander was tied with Michael Harris II, Jackson Merrill, Bryon Buxton and Christian Yelich.

Varsho's rating of 82 has him tied with Riley Greene and Jackson Chourio.

Gausman's 83 ranking is a bit of a snub after he opened last year with a 90 rating. While he had a bit of a down year by his standards, he's still one of the most consistent pitchers in baseball with a nasty splitter. He's one of seven pitchers to have an 83 rating — a list that includes former Blue Jay Yusei Kikuchi.

Hoffman's impressive 86 rating makes him the fourth-highest reliever in the game behind Emmanuel Clase, Cade Smith and Mason Miller.

All that being said, the most noteworthy thing about this list is who it doesn't include. After coming in as an 89 overall last year, Bo Bichette has fallen out of the top seven completely, meaning his overall will start at an 81 or lower.

Yes, Bichette only hit .225 in 81 games last year, but he was also playing through multiple injuries on a team that wasn't going anywhere. While we don't know his rating, we know that he'll be lower than the Rockies Ezequiel Tovar (83 rating) and likely slot around Ha-Seong Kim (80 overall), Masyn Winn (80) and CJ Abrams (78).

All four of them are good shortstops, but none of them are better than a healthy Bichette.

Additionally, both George Springer and José Berríos have fallen out of the top of the Blue Jays rankings after they opened last year as the team's No. 4 and 5 overall players. There's a different reason for both players doing so.

For Springer (who started last year as an 81 overall), 2024 marked another down year, so it makes sense that his rating would drop. That said, he's changing positions and seems poised to have a better year.

Berríos was also an 81 overall last year and there's still a chance that he could have the same rating this year since the Blue Jays' top-seven stopped at 82. But it's still a bit surprising that his rating didn't go up considering he's coming off a year where he had his best ERA as a Blue Jay (3.60) in 192 1/3 innings.

On the bright side, Berríos not being in the top-seven speaks to how much the Blue Jays roster has improved since last year. But on the other side, it means that Berríos is going to be ranked at or lower than Erick Fedde, which isn't fair to Berríos.

Regardless, Blue Jays fans will get plenty of time to turn the team into a 10-time World Series champion when MLB The Show 25 drops on March 18 for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and Nintendo Switch.