Injuries are an inevitable part of baseball. According to the RosterResource Injury Report, there are currently 229 players on major league injured lists. That’s just under one-third as many as there are on active rosters. It works out to about seven or eight injured players per team. Some injuries are predictable or preventable, while others are the result of pure bad luck. In any case, no team can avoid using the IL entirely, but the most successful clubs are those that can minimize injuries, like last year’s surprisingly successful Tigers and Royals, or find ways to overcome them, like last year’s World Series champion Dodgers. As the 2025 season inches closer to its halfway mark, does one team stand out as the most affected by injuries this year?
The most obvious answer is the Dodgers, who currently have 14 players (all pitchers) on their major league injured list, the most of any team. Since the beginning of the season, the Dodgers have placed 22 players on the IL, which is the highest total in the National League and the second-highest in the majors, behind only the White Sox (23). All of those players have combined to miss 960 games in 2025, according to the Baseball Prospectus Injured List Ledger. That is far and away the highest total in the sport. The Mets rank second with 695 cumulative games missed. The 265-game gap between the Dodgers and Mets is roughly the same size as the gap between the second-ranked Mets and 20th-ranked Mariners (441 games missed). If that’s not enough to illustrate just how many players the Dodgers have lost to the IL, consider this: They have already lost more player games to injury through 68 games in 2025 than a handful of teams lost throughout all of 2024.
What’s more, it’s not like we’re just talking about injuries to depth arms or bench bats. Two-time Cy Young winner Blake Snell has been out with shoulder inflammation since his second start of the season. All-Star starter Tyler Glasnow hasn’t pitched since the end of April. He, too, is nursing a shoulder injury, as is rookie phenom Roki Sasaki. Several key bullpen pieces are out as well, including Blake Treinen (forearm tightness) and Evan Phillips (Tommy John surgery). And of course, none of the IL stats I cited above include Shohei Ohtani, who has not been able to pitch so far this year.
Yet, in terms of total value taken away by injuries since the start of the 2025 campaign, Baseball Prospectus estimates the Dodgers have only lost the third-most projected WARP (Wins Above Replacement Player). WARP is only one way to measure value, and projected WARP is just that: a projection. Still, it’s worth considering that just because the Dodgers have lost the most games to the IL, they haven’t necessarily lost the most value.
The two teams that are ever-so-slightly ahead of the Dodgers in projected WARP lost to injury are a pair of AL East rivals: the Yankees and Orioles. The Yankees are without ace Gerrit Cole, who underwent Tommy John surgery in March. Luis Gil, the 2024 AL Rookie of the Year winner, has also been out all year as he nurses a lat strain. On the position player side, elbow injuries have kept designated hitter Giancarlo Stanton off the field all year, though he recently started a rehab assignment. More Yankees who have missed time at some point include Jazz Chisholm Jr., Clarke Schmidt, Fernando Cruz, DJ LeMahieu, and Marcus Stroman, while closer Luke Weaver recently landed on the IL with a hamstring strain.
As for the Orioles, they have been without Grayson Rodriguez all year. He first went on the IL with elbow inflammation before suffering a lat strain that set him back further. Albert Suárez has been out since his first appearance of the season with shoulder inflammation, while Zach Eflin also missed significant time early in the year. In terms of position players, the Orioles are currently without Tyler O’Neill, Ryan Mountcastle, Gary Sánchez, and Jorge Mateo. Others who have missed time this season include Colton Cowser, Jordan Westburg, Cedric Mullins, and Gunnar Henderson.
Ultimately, all three of the Dodgers, Yankees, and Orioles are neck and neck in value lost to injury, according to Baseball Prospectus. However, I have to wonder if anyone can truly argue the Yankees and Dodgers have been “hit hard” by injuries this year. They’re each in first place in their respective divisions and rank among the top five MLB teams in winning percentage and run differential. According to both FanGraphs and Baseball Prospectus, they have the highest playoff and World Series odds in their respective leagues. Despite all the players they are missing (or have missed at some point), they are thriving. I would make a similar argument about the Mets. They have also lost their fair share of players to injury, including Sean Manaea, Frankie Montas, and A.J. Minter. Nonetheless, the Mets have the best record in the National League, and no team in baseball has given up fewer runs.
The Orioles, on the other hand, have severely underperformed expectations. They sit in last place in the AL East, and their 26-39 record has them looking like potential sellers at the deadline. While their bats have been disappointing, pitching has been their downfall so far. Perhaps they wouldn’t be so far out of contention with a healthy Rodriguez leading their rotation.
To that point, the Baseball Prospectus Injured List Ledger also shows the percentage of a team’s projected WARP lost to injury. By this metric, neither the Yankees nor the Dodgers (and especially the Dodgers) rank as highly. Think of it this way: They’ve both lost a lot of good players to the IL, but those losses haven’t hurt them as badly as they might have hurt other teams, because the Yankees and Dodgers have such talented rosters. As you might expect, the Orioles still rank highly; they’re second in MLB in percentage of projected WARP lost to injury. However, by this metric, a new top contender emerges: the Brewers.
Pitching injuries plagued the Brewers last year, and they have continued to be a problem in 2025. When the Brewers signed Brandon Woodruff to a two-year contract during the 2023-24 offseason, knowing he would likely miss the entire 2024 season recovering from shoulder surgery, they were surely hoping he’d pitch significant innings in 2025. So far, that hasn’t been the case. He was hoping to finally make his 2025 debut this week before a right elbow contusion foiled his plans. In addition to Woodruff, Brewers starting pitchers who have hit the IL at some point this year include Nestor Cortes, Aaron Civale, Jose Quintana, Tobias Myers, and DL Hall. Milwaukee is also missing a pair of outfielders, Garrett Mitchell and Blake Perkins. Finally, star catcher William Contreras has been playing through a fractured finger. He hasn’t missed any time, but his injury almost surely explains his uncharacteristically pedestrian performance at the plate.
The Brewers are also in a very different position than either the Yankees and Dodgers, who seem all but guaranteed to make the playoffs, or the Orioles, who have played so poorly that they might still be under .500 even if everyone on their roster were healthy. Milwaukee is 36-32, 5.5 games back in the NL Central and 2.5 games back in the NL Wild Card race. All the injuries they have suffered could ultimately make the difference between the Brewers making the playoffs for the seventh time in the past eight years or hitting the links come October.
The Marlins and Rockies are two more teams that rank highly in percentage of projected WARP lost to injury, but even more so than the Yankees and Dodgers, their records are reason enough to disqualify them from this conversation. The same is true of the White Sox, who have placed more players on the IL during 2025 than any other team. Perhaps injuries have cost the Marlins, Rockies, and White Sox several wins each, but even with those extra wins, all three clubs would still be in the basement.
A couple more teams it is worth considering are those that might not have lost a lot of value to injury yet, but who surely will as the season goes on. For instance, the Diamondbacks recently lost ace Corbin Burnes for the season to a torn UCL. Stud reliever Justin Martinez is also on the IL with a sprained UCL that could require season-ending surgery. The Red Sox, too, have lost a few key players recently, most notably Alex Bregman, who could miss multiple months recovering from a significant quad strain.
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