2012 MLB Power Rankings for May 21: Tribe Making Moves
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.)
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Teams Ranked by Winning Percentage
(everyone plays everyone 100 times)
| 1. | Texas Rangers | - | 70.1 | 5.1 | 3.1 |
| 2. | St. Louis Cardinals | - | 59.5 | 4.9 | 3.9 |
| 3. | Los Angeles Dodgers | +1 | 59.4 | 4.2 | 3.3 |
| 4. | New York Yankees | -1 | 58.9 | 4.8 | 3.9 |
| 5. | Philadelphia Phillies | +1 | 56.8 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
| 6. | Toronto Blue Jays | +6 | 55.7 | 3.9 | 3.5 |
| 7. | Cleveland Indians | +10 | 55.5 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
| 8. | Baltimore Orioles | -3 | 55.5 | 4.0 | 3.6 |
| 9. | Tampa Bay Rays | +1 | 53.3 | 4.3 | 3.9 |
| 10. | Washington Nationals | -2 | 52.2 | 3.7 | 3.5 |
| 11. | Boston Red Sox | +4 | 51.1 | 4.5 | 4.3 |
| 12. | Atlanta Braves | -1 | 50.8 | 4.1 | 4.0 |
| 13. | Houston Astros | +3 | 50.7 | 3.7 | 3.6 |
| 14. | Detroit Tigers | +4 | 50.7 | 4.0 | 3.9 |
| 15. | San Francisco Giants | +8 | 50.1 | 3.7 | 3.7 |
| 16. | Chicago White Sox | +3 | 49.9 | 3.5 | 3.6 |
| 17. | Chicago Cubs | -8 | 49.2 | 3.6 | 3.8 |
| 18. | Los Angeles Angels | -4 | 49.1 | 3.7 | 3.8 |
| 19. | Miami Marlins | +1 | 48.6 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 20. | Arizona Diamondbacks | -13 | 48.3 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 21. | Cincinnati Reds | -8 | 46.8 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 22. | New York Mets | - | 45.7 | 4.3 | 4.7 |
| 23. | Seattle Mariners | +1 | 45.6 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 24. | Minnesota Twins | +5 | 44.2 | 3.7 | 4.3 |
| 25. | Kansas City Royals | -4 | 43.2 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
| 26. | Milwaukee Brewers | - | 42.5 | 3.8 | 4.6 |
| 27. | Oakland Athletics | -2 | 40.4 | 2.9 | 3.8 |
| 28. | Colorado Rockies | -1 | 40.3 | 4.0 | 4.9 |
| 29. | Pittsburgh Pirates | +1 | 40.1 | 3.0 | 3.8 |
| 30. | San Diego Padres | -2 | 35.9 | 3.0 | 4.4 |
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