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WhatIfSports.com utilizes its award-winning baseball simulation engine to present the most comprehensive and unbiased ranking possible of all 30 teams in baseball each Monday during the regular season.
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 – 50 at home and 50 at the opposing ballpark so that all five pitchers in the current rotation start ten times
at each location.
(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 and injury to one position player
will usually have a lesser impact on the week-to-week results.)
Teams Ranked by Winning Percentage
(everyone plays everyone 100 times)
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | New York Yankees | +5 | 60.0 | 4.7 | 3.6 |
| 2. | St. Louis Cardinals | -1 | 58.1 | 4.5 | 3.7 |
| 3. | Philadelphia Phillies | +5 | 56.0 | 3.8 | 3.3 |
| 4. | Milwaukee Brewers | -1 | 55.8 | 4.3 | 3.7 |
| 5. | Boston Red Sox | -1 | 55.2 | 4.5 | 4.0 |
| 6. | Tampa Bay Rays | +4 | 54.7 | 3.7 | 3.4 |
| 7. | Los Angeles Angels | +2 | 54.7 | 3.8 | 3.5 |
| 8. | Atlanta Braves | +3 | 54.5 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| 9. | Texas Rangers | -4 | 53.8 | 4.4 | 4.0 |
| 10. | Detroit Tigers | +5 | 53.4 | 4.1 | 3.8 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 11. | Arizona Diamondbacks | -9 | 52.6 | 4.1 | 3.8 |
| 12. | Cleveland Indians | -5 | 52.4 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
| 13. | Kansas City Royals | +5 | 52.3 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
| 14. | Colorado Rockies | +3 | 51.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 15. | Cincinnati Reds | +5 | 50.9 | 4.5 | 4.3 |
| 16. | Toronto Blue Jays | -4 | 50.5 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| 17. | Washington Nationals | +2 | 50.3 | 3.5 | 3.5 |
| 18. | New York Mets | +5 | 49.3 | 4.3 | 4.4 |
| 19. | Chicago White Sox | +6 | 48.1 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
| 20. | Florida Marlins | -4 | 47.7 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 21. | San Francisco Giants | -7 | 47.4 | 3.4 | 3.8 |
| 22. | Pittsburgh Pirates | -9 | 47.3 | 3.6 | 3.7 |
| 23. | Chicago Cubs | -2 | 46.7 | 3.9 | 4.3 |
| 24. | Los Angeles Dodgers | - | 45.2 | 3.9 | 4.3 |
| 25. | Baltimore Orioles | +3 | 45.0 | 3.7 | 4.2 |
| 26. | Seattle Mariners | - | 44.9 | 3.0 | 3.4 |
| 27. | San Diego Padres | +2 | 44.9 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
| 28. | Oakland Athletics | -6 | 42.1 | 3.1 | 3.7 |
| 29. | Houston Astros | -2 | 40.3 | 3.7 | 4.8 |
| 30. | Minnesota Twins | - | 34.7 | 3.1 | 4.6 |
Joel Beall is a writer for Whatifsports.com. He can be reached at jbeall@whatifsports.com.
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