2012 MLB Power Rankings: May 7

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)

	Team	Win Pct	RS/G	RA/G
1.	St. Louis Cardinals	63.2	4.9	3.5
2.	Texas Rangers	62.2	5.0	3.8
3.	Tampa Bay Rays	59.3	4.6	3.7
4.	Los Angeles Dodgers	59.1	4.5	3.6
5.	Arizona Diamondbacks	55.8	4.0	3.5
6.	Houston Astros	55.4	4.2	3.6
7.	Chicago White Sox	55.1	3.6	3.2
8.	Baltimore Orioles	54.6	4.2	3.7
9.	New York Yankees	54.3	5.0	4.6
10.	Washington Nationals	52.5	3.7	3.3
	Team	Win Pct	RS/G	RA/G
11.	Toronto Blue Jays	52.4	3.9	3.6
12.	San Francisco Giants	51.9	3.9	3.7
13.	Kansas City Royals	51.8	4.1	4.0
14.	Atlanta Braves	51.2	4.4	4.3
15.	Cleveland Indians	51.1	4.1	3.9
16.	Chicago Cubs	50.3	3.5	3.5
17.	Boston Red Sox	49.3	4.3	4.5
18.	Seattle Mariners	48.8	3.4	3.5
19.	Los Angeles Angels	48.8	3.7	3.9
20.	Miami Marlins	48.7	3.9	4.0
	Team	Win Pct	RS/G	RA/G
21.	Cincinnati Reds	48.5	3.8	3.9
22.	San Diego Padres	46.5	3.3	3.6
23.	Philadelphia Phillies	45.3	3.4	4.0
24.	Detroit Tigers	44.9	3.7	4.3
25.	Colorado Rockies	44.5	4.7	5.1
26.	New York Mets	43.6	4.3	5.1
27.	Oakland Athletics	40.7	3.0	3.7
28.	Pittsburgh Pirates	39.8	3.2	4.1
29.	Milwaukee Brewers	39.3	3.9	5.1
30.	Minnesota Twins	31.0	3.3	5.2