WhatIfSports.com utilizes its award-winning baseball simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 30 teams in baseball.
To come up with the rankings, using only their statistical performance to date this season, each team is simulated against every other team 100 times – so that all five pitchers in the current rotation start ten times
at each location. Rosters, rotations and stats are up-to-date through Saturday.
(Note: This means that if a pitcher who was in the rotation was recently put on the DL, he will not be included in the simulations. This is true of position players as well, but an injury to a position player will usually have a lesser impact on the weekly results.)
Teams Ranked by Winning Percentage
(everyone plays everyone 100 times)
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Los Angeles Dodgers | +1 | 66.4 | 5.4 | 3.7 |
| 2. | Tampa Bay Rays | +1 | 63.3 | 5.8 | 4.4 |
| 3. | New York Mets | -2 | 59.2 | 5.5 | 4.5 |
| 4. | St. Louis Cardinals | +1 | 58.5 | 4.6 | 3.8 |
| 5. | New York Yankees | +4 | 56.6 | 5.7 | 5.1 |
| 6. | Minnesota Twins | +6 | 54.3 | 4.9 | 4.4 |
| 7. | Boston Red Sox | - | 54.1 | 5.4 | 4.8 |
| 8. | Los Angeles Angels | +2 | 53.0 | 5.3 | 5.0 |
| 9. | Texas Rangers | +2 | 52.7 | 5.0 | 4.7 |
| 10. | Philadelphia Phillies | -4 | 52.0 | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 11. | Toronto Blue Jays | -7 | 51.5 | 5.1 | 4.9 |
| 12. | Colorado Rockies | +5 | 51.5 | 5.1 | 5.0 |
| 13. | Chicago Cubs | - | 51.3 | 4.4 | 4.3 |
| 14. | Milwaukee Brewers | -6 | 51.2 | 4.9 | 4.7 |
| 15. | Detroit Tigers | +1 | 51.0 | 4.7 | 4.6 |
| 16. | Baltimore Orioles | +12 | 50.1 | 4.8 | 4.9 |
| 17. | Florida Marlins | -3 | 48.9 | 4.3 | 4.5 |
| 18. | Pittsburgh Pirates | +9 | 48.8 | 4.5 | 4.7 |
| 19. | Seattle Mariners | +4 | 48.2 | 4.1 | 4.2 |
| 20. | Washington Nationals | +2 | 47.7 | 4.7 | 5.0 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 21. | Cincinnati Reds | -6 | 47.3 | 4.4 | 4.6 |
| 22. | Atlanta Braves | -2 | 46.2 | 4.1 | 4.4 |
| 23. | Arizona Diamondbacks | -4 | 46.2 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
| 24. | Cleveland Indians | -3 | 45.8 | 4.9 | 5.3 |
| 25. | San Francisco Giants | +4 | 45.7 | 3.9 | 4.4 |
| 26. | Chicago White Sox | - | 42.1 | 4.1 | 4.8 |
| 27. | Houston Astros | -2 | 41.4 | 4.5 | 5.4 |
| 28. | Oakland Athletics | -4 | 40.8 | 3.7 | 4.5 |
| 29. | Kansas City Royals | -11 | 40.3 | 4.2 | 5.4 |
| 30. | San Diego Padres | - | 34.0 | 4.0 | 5.6 |
Paul Bessire is the Product Manager of Content and Quantitative Analysis for WhatIfSports.com, a division of FOX Sports Interactive. With any comments, questions or topic suggestions, Paul can be reached at BtB@whatifsports.com. Thanks!
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