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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 an 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. | Washington Nationals | +2 | 61.0 | 4.6 | 3.6 |
| 2. | Cincinnati Reds | - | 59.8 | 4.7 | 3.8 |
| 3. | New York Yankees | +1 | 58.4 | 4.8 | 4.0 |
| 4. | Texas Rangers | -3 | 57.8 | 4.8 | 3.9 |
| 5. | Tampa Bay Rays | +5 | 57.5 | 4.0 | 3.4 |
| 6. | St. Louis Cardinals | - | 56.1 | 4.6 | 4.1 |
| 7. | Los Angeles Angels | -2 | 55.9 | 4.8 | 4.2 |
| 8. | Detroit Tigers | -1 | 53.5 | 4.5 | 4.2 |
| 9. | Oakland Athletics | -1 | 53.4 | 3.9 | 3.5 |
| 10. | Philadelphia Phillies | +7 | 53.1 | 4.2 | 4.0 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 11. | Pittsburgh Pirates | +4 | 52.4 | 4.1 | 3.9 |
| 12. | Milwaukee Brewers | +2 | 51.9 | 4.7 | 4.5 |
| 13. | Atlanta Braves | -4 | 51.0 | 4.2 | 3.9 |
| 14. | New York Mets | -1 | 50.7 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 15. | Baltimore Orioles | +4 | 50.6 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 16. | Chicago White Sox | -4 | 50.3 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 17. | San Francisco Giants | -6 | 50.0 | 4.1 | 4.1 |
| 18. | Arizona Diamondbacks | +3 | 49.3 | 4.2 | 4.2 |
| 19. | Los Angeles Dodgers | -3 | 49.0 | 3.9 | 4.0 |
| 20. | Miami Marlins | - | 48.0 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| Team | Change | Win Pct | RS/G | RA/G | |
| 21. | Toronto Blue Jays | -3 | 47.6 | 3.9 | 4.2 |
| 22. | San Diego Padres | - | 46.3 | 3.9 | 4.3 |
| 23. | Seattle Mariners | +4 | 46.1 | 3.4 | 3.7 |
| 24. | Kansas City Royals | +1 | 45.5 | 4.0 | 4.3 |
| 25. | Minnesota Twins | -2 | 45.5 | 4.1 | 4.5 |
| 26. | Boston Red Sox | -2 | 44.8 | 4.1 | 4.6 |
| 27. | Cleveland Indians | +1 | 41.6 | 3.9 | 4.6 |
| 28. | Colorado Rockies | -2 | 41.2 | 4.5 | 5.3 |
| 29. | Chicago Cubs | - | 36.4 | 3.7 | 5.1 |
| 30. | Houston Astros | - | 35.3 | 3.5 | 4.9 |
Jake Westrich is the Digital Content Coordinator for WhatIfSports.com. He can be reached at jwestrich@whatifsports.com.
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