2012 MLB Power Rankings: May 14th
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 10 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)
| 1. | Texas Rangers | +1 | 72.2 | 5.1 | 2.9 |
| 2. | St. Louis Cardinals | -1 | 67.4 | 5.1 | 3.4 |
| 3. | New York Yankees | +6 | 56.1 | 5.0 | 4.3 |
| 4. | Los Angeles Dodgers | - | 55.2 | 4.1 | 3.7 |
| 5. | Baltimore Orioles | +3 | 55.0 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 6. | Philadelphia Phillies | +17 | 54.2 | 3.7 | 3.3 |
| 7. | Arizona Diamondbacks | -2 | 53.7 | 3.8 | 3.5 |
| 8. | Washington Nationals | +2 | 53.2 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| 9. | Chicago Cubs | +7 | 52.6 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
| 10. | Tampa Bay Rays | -7 | 52.5 | 4.2 | 4.0 |
| 11. | Atlanta Braves | +3 | 52.1 | 4.2 | 4.0 |
| 12. | Toronto Blue Jays | -1 | 51.5 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 13. | Cincinnati Reds | +8 | 49.9 | 3.8 | 3.8 |
| 14. | Los Angeles Angels | +5 | 49.6 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 15. | Boston Red Sox | +2 | 49.1 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 16. | Houston Astros | -10 | 48.8 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
| 17. | Cleveland Indians | -2 | 48.5 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 18. | Detroit Tigers | +6 | 47.9 | 3.6 | 3.8 |
| 19. | Chicago White Sox | -12 | 47.7 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 20. | Miami Marlins | - | 47.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 21. | Kansas City Royals | -8 | 46.4 | 3.8 | 4.2 |
| 22. | New York Mets | +4 | 46.4 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
| 23. | San Francisco Giants | -11 | 46.2 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
| 24. | Seattle Mariners | -6 | 45.5 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 25. | Oakland Athletics | +2 | 44.8 | 3.2 | 3.7 |
| 26. | Milwaukee Brewers | +3 | 42.7 | 4.0 | 4.8 |
| 27. | Colorado Rockies | -2 | 42.5 | 4.2 | 4.9 |
| 28. | San Diego Padres | -6 | 41.5 | 3.0 | 3.8 |
| 29. | Minnesota Twins | +1 | 40.2 | 3.3 | 4.1 |
| 30. | Pittsburgh Pirates | -2 | 39.2 | 2.9 | 3.9 |
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