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One of the best features of our site is Derek Rhoads’ injury visualizations. You can access the Injured List Ledger, the Recovery Dashboard, and the Four-Year Injury Map from the Tools pulldown on the site. You can use them to learn various aspects of injuries during.
The IL Ledger provides a good answer to the question, “Which teams got hurt the most by injuries in 2025?” Scroll down to the IL Team Totals graphic, and you’ll see that the Dodgers (2,201), Astros (2,004), Mets (1,977), Orioles (1,829), Red Sox (1,753), Tigers (1,627), Diamondbacks (1,530), and White Sox all had over 1,500 players’ games lost to the injured list this year. (That Dodgers total is equivalent to over 13 players in the IL every day of the season.) At the other extreme, the Phillies (389), Cardinals (447), Giants (700), Twins (790), Cubs (921), and Mariners (952) all lost fewer than 1,000 games.
But some injuries are costlier than others. The Astros lost 12.4 wins, measured by WARP, due to injuries last year, losing Yordan Alvarez, Ronel Blanco, Spencer Arrighetti, and others for most of the season. Orioles lost 12.2 wins, the Dodgers 11.3, the Rangers and Braves 10.6, and the Yankees 10.2. Note that this is based on preseason WARP. We didn’t project much WARP last year for players like Gerrit Cole, who injured his UCL in spring training, and projected only 0.7 wins for his teammate Giancarlo Stanton, knowing he’d miss the first couple months of the year with an elbow injury, so his projection was based on an estimated 241 plate appearances. (Nailed it: He got 249.) The Braves lost the eighth-fewest days but the fourth-most wins, with costly injuries to key players Reynaldo López, Chris Sale, Spencer Schwellenbach, Spencer Strider, Austin Riley, and Sean Murphy torpedoing their season. The White Sox lost only 1.7 wins, the Giants 2.0, the Rockies 2.7, the A’s 2.8, and the Cardinals 2.9. Nobody else missed out on fewer than 3.7 wins.
