Handing out 2025 midseason grades for all 30 MLB teams

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We're past due to hand out some midseason grades, so let's hand out some midseason grades.

As we pass the 90-game mark in the 2025 MLB season, my team of the first half isn't the well-rounded Detroit Tigers, who do get our highest grade for owning MLB's best record, or the explosive Chicago Cubs or Shohei Ohtani's Los Angeles Dodgers, but a team most baseball fans love to hate: the Houston Astros. They lost their two best players from last season and their best hitter has been injured -- and they're playing their best baseball since they won the 2022 World Series.

Let's get to the grades. As always, we're grading off preseason expectations, factoring in win-loss record and…