The Hottest MLB Players In The Game Today

Major League Baseball (MLB) is full of dedicated and talented athletes who also happen to have swagger and sex appeal, and it has been since its advent. As far as former players go, we could probably write an encyclopedia-length list with the number of hot men that have played the game. Even if we were to stick to recent memory, there are far too many men — from Anthony Recker to Chris Davis to Trevor Plouffe — to wrangle with. So, we focused our list on the hottest players in the game today, which still proved to be a difficult task. It might not seem like a lot of work to cobble together a list from the current MLB rosters, but the issue was not finding our favorite hotties, it was finding too many.

Though active rosters are capped at 26 players, an extended roster can include up to 40 men. And since there are 30 teams in the MLB, that means there were well over a thousand players we had to consider. There must be something in the water (or Gatorade?) too, because there happens to be an exorbitant amount of sexy dudes in the MLB. There are many, many hunks we could have included — Brandon Crawford, Noah Syndergaard, Mike Trout, Danny Mendick, Mitch Haniger, Eric Hosmer, and more — but we had to make some tough cuts and we stick by them. In no particular order, here is our list of 20 of the absolute hottest MLB players in the game today.

There is nothing that is not hot about Max Kepler. Seriously, even his first name, Maximilian, is sexy. The German-born athlete, who joined the MLB in 2015, has played for the Minnesota Twins for the entirety of his major league career. He is probably not leaving baseball anytime soon — he has a massive 35-million-dollar, five-year contract with the Twins — but The Athletic and other sources reported that he may be traded in 2023. Still, if things don't work out in his favor, he could totally have a career as a male model. Yes, Kepler is that fine.

From his sculpted jawline to his piercing blue eyes to his cheeky smile, Kepler's face is immaculate. At 6'4" and 225 pounds and with a muscled but not bulky physique, Kepler's body is great as well. He does not have a ton of pictures on his Instagram, but that hasn't stopped us from recognizing his beauty. So too have others, which is why he's number one on Ranker's list of "The Hottest Baseball Players of 2023." Kepler also has a spot on SportyTell's 2022 piece, "41 Hottest Baseball Players in The League Right Now," and in 2019, was listed as one reason for women to be baseball fans in a super gender-stereotypical article by Barstool Sports.

Nolan Arenado joined the MLB in 2013 and played eight years for the Colorado Rockies before the St. Louis Cardinals acquired him in 2021. According to The Denver Post, not only did the Cardinals fork up $51 million for Arenado, but they also sent over five players in the trade. So, yes, Arenado is a big deal player who is in high demand for his athleticism. We are going to focus on his good looks and sex appeal, though, both of which Arenado has in spades. And sure, he has been with his wife for years — ever since high school — but that has not stopped us from daydreaming about the hunky third baseman.

Arenado has been named one of the MLB's hottest by many publications, was featured in E! Online's 2015 gallery devoted to photos of sexy baseball players, and is currently ranked second on Ranker's "The Hottest Baseball Players of 2023." He has no official Instagram or Twitter — so don't expect thirst traps any time soon — but there are multiple fan accounts on Instagram that have tens of thousands of followers and feature good pictures of the star athlete. Plenty of these photos highlight Arenado's fantastic smile, sexy scruff, and great head of hair.

In 2022, People magazine included outfielder Aaron Judge in their yearly "Sexiest Man Alive" issue, causing sports media to react — even the MLB website posted a story on it, and Sportskeeda came out with a collection of photos that they said proved Judge's sexiness. Judge is one of the few MLB players to ever be featured on People's "Sexiest Man Alive" lists (Derek Jeter was the last one before him), but even on baseball-focused rankings of hotness, Judge often makes the cut. 

Judge's MLB career began in 2016 when he was drafted by the New York Yankees, for whom he still plays. He was the 11th best player in the league in 2022, up from number 21 the previous year. With his skills on the field and his major sex appeal, it makes sense that Judge has a rather large online following. He has 1.6 million Instagram followers, even though he rarely posts photos that are not game pics available in other places. As Sports Illustrated noted when he joined the league, Judge is one of the biggest MLB players — literally. Per the article, Judge is 282 pounds of bulk in a giant 6'7" frame. "Look at Judge. Look at him. That's scary, man. That's the scariest thing I've ever seen," former MLBer David Ortiz told Sports Illustrated. Change "scariest" to "sexiest" and we can get on the same page.

Kiké Hernández loves to show off — and we are certainly not complaining. In 2019, he did a "bend and snap" that caught the attention of media outlets, including Instinct Magazine, and caused waves across "gay Twitter," per LGBTQ Nation. On multiple occasions, the center fielder's twerking has also made the news, and even TMZ re-posted a locker room video of Hernández popping that booty back in 2019. Is it simply a playful sense of humor or an acknowledgement of his own hotness and how thirsty fans are for him? We don't know, but we are here for it. Hernández, who has been declared one of the hottest MLB stars by SportyTell and Ranker, has a level of swagger and sex appeal that most could only dream of.

Hernández joined the MLB in 2014, and his team affiliation has changed quite a bit. He began his career with the Houston Astros, was quickly traded to the Miami Marlins, then quickly traded again to the Los Angeles Dodgers. He was with the Dodgers for six seasons before joining his current team, the Boston Red Sox, in 2021. Despite (or maybe because of) his jumps around the league, Hernández has cultivated a large online following. As of this writing, he has 766,000 Instagram followers and over 218,000 Twitter followers, all of whom would likely be fine should he decide to post a new twerking video. In the meantime, there are plenty of photos that show off Hernández's gorgeous face and bulging biceps.

Akil Baddoo is the youngest athlete on our list, both in terms of chronological years as well as time spent in the MLB. But even though he has not been on the national stage for a long time, Baddoo is hard not to notice. He started his major league career with the Detroit Tigers in 2021, and immediately, his physical attractiveness came to our attention. Baddoo has a beautiful smile and sexy well-groomed beard, in addition to a smoking hot body. Take a peek at any photo of him in action and note his giant quads, for example. You won't be sorry you Googled!

As a newer MLB player on a relatively low-ranking team, Baddoo has not yet amassed a huge following. He has only 35,000 Instagram followers and a minimal (for a professional athlete) 10,000 Twitter followers. However, we're certain that number will grow. That is not to say that no one else has noticed his good looks, as he earned a place on Ranker's "The Hottest Baseball Players Of 2023" as well as SportyTell's "41 Hottest Baseball Players in The League Right Now." Baddoo's Instagram has only the occasional thirst trap, but it has plenty of photos highlighting his big arms, winning grin, and piercing stare. He's still in his mid-20s, so we can look forward to ogling Baddoo for plenty more years to come if things go according to plan.

Kris Bryant is a hard man to follow, but if anyone could do it, it is James McCann, another legitimate hunk. At 235 pounds, McCann is a solid slab of beef that looks mightily good on the field or off of it — like in his modeling shots for fashion brand Lawrence Hunt, for example. The catcher started his MLB career in 2014, playing for the Detroit Tigers for his first five seasons. He then spent two years with the Chicago White Sox before joining the New York Mets, his current team, in 2021. He may not be one of the highest-profile players in the league — he has a modest 70,000 Instagram followers and a roughly equal number of Twitter ones — but McCann is definitely one of the sexiest ones.

In 2016, Cosmopolitan magazine included McCann on their list of the "30 Hottest MLB Players of All Time," and he is only getting hotter with age. Now in his 30s, McCann is not crazy ripped (we know this from shirtless vacation photos on his Instagram!) but we don't think he needs to be. He still has great biceps, and his lower body is killer, as you would expect from a catcher. His face is his moneymaker, though, and probably the reason why he has been included on so many hot lists. We are particularly fond of his smile, especially when it is featured in the cute family photos he is fond of posting.

Alex Kirilloff is another younger MLB player who has caught our eye with his good looks and sex appeal. Kirilloff joined the league in 2021, playing with the Minnesota Twins, but has struggled with an injured wrist that took him out of commission before the end of both the 2021 and 2022 seasons when he had to get surgeries, per MLB.com. By January 2023, Kirilloff was swinging a bat again. This made us rejoice, mostly so we can see him in his uniform again.

Kirilloff has a much lower profile than the rest of the men on our list, with not even 10,000 Instagram followers and just under 6,000 Twitter followers, as of right now. You won't find any thirst traps or even shirtless vacation photos from Kirilloff either, but he is hot enough that he can spice up even the tamest social media photos. Kirilloff has gorgeous skin (he is, after all, only in his 20s) and an adorable smile, plus a sexy layer of scruff and soulful brown eyes. These features helped him land on Ranker's "The Hottest Baseball Players Of 2023," as did his fit, lean frame.

Let's talk about underrated hotties and focus in on Adam Duvall, a super cute center fielder who for some reason has only 47,000 Instagram followers, as of this writing. At least some media outlets have recognized his hotness, since he is on Cosmopolitan's list of "The 30 Hottest MLB Players of All Time" as well as SportyTell's 2022 article, "41 Hottest Baseball Players in The League Right Now." Still, Duvall deserves a bigger following, if only for his perfect jawline and amazing head of hair. He also has a muscular frame and a sexy smile, so we will blame his lower follower count on the fact that he has not posted to his grid since 2019, and not a lack of interest in him.

Beyond looks, Duvall deserves a larger following as a good player who has been in the league for nearly a decade. He started in the MLB with the San Francisco Giants in 2014 but has moved around a lot. He has been on the Cincinnati Reds, the Miami Marlins, and the Atlanta Braves (twice), and signed a one-year deal with the Boston Red Sox. On top of that, he has spoken out about living with Type 1 diabetes on multiple occasions, once telling the MLB Network that he aims "to be an advocate that you can do whatever you want to do," and has actively worked with the Taylor Hooton Foundation — which focuses on appearance and performance enhancing substances — for years.

Cody Bellinger is smoking hot. He is so hot, actually, that on two occasions female fans have rushed onto the field to try to touch him. And while we don't advocate storming into a baseball game, we do understand the urge to hug Bellinger (and if we did not, the shirtless photo of him in bed that his girlfriend shared in 2020, would have convinced us). Bellinger doesn't really have any bad features, so it's a matter of choosing the best of the best. His perfect bone structure and sparkling blue eyes are probably our faves, and they keep Bellinger looking great whether his hair and/or beard are long or short at the time.

Bellinger joined the MLB in 2017, and he has been with the Los Angeles Dodgers for the entirety of his time in the league. Even though he dropped a whopping 89 spots in MLB's rankings, the center fielder was still ranked in the top 100 for 2022 (he was 99). But we are here to talk about how much of a zaddy he is, not his ball playing, so let's get back to that. Bellinger has made it onto many a hot baseball player lists, and he is also very popular on social media. He has over 900,000 Instagram followers and a Twitter following of 227,000, though he is more active on the former (but still not very active).

Alex Bregman is a controversial player, depending on who you ask, because of the Houston Astros cheating scandal from 2017. Bregman joined the Astros in 2016 and has been playing for them ever since, so he weathered the storm in the aftermath of the scandal but did not experience any personal fallout beyond some trash talking online MLB fans. But we are not going to blame Bregman for something that is far larger than just him and he certainly meets the criteria for this list, because he is a major hottie. Plus, Bregman has a lot of supporters, including over 725,000 Instagram followers and more than 330,000 Twitter followers.

Bregman was the 29th best player in the league for 2022. And as we said, he is also one of the prettiest. Bregman has a cute, cheeky smile and adorable dimples, as well as a great jawline, beautiful eyes, and a rocking body (which we got a great view of thanks to one of his teammates posting a shirtless Bregman on his story in 2018). Both SportyTell and Ranker have named Bregman one of the MLB's hottest, thanks, in no part, to his good looks, but probably also his swagger and charisma.