2012 MLB Power Rankings for July 9th: Nats Nab Top Spot
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)
| 1. | Washington Nationals | +2 | 60.7 | 4.3 | 3.4 |
| 2. | Texas Rangers | -1 | 58.8 | 5.0 | 4.1 |
| 3. | Los Angeles Angels | +2 | 57.8 | 4.5 | 3.7 |
| 4. | Cincinnati Reds | - | 56.6 | 4.5 | 3.8 |
| 5. | Chicago White Sox | +3 | 56.4 | 4.1 | 3.5 |
| 6. | New York Yankees | +1 | 56.1 | 5.0 | 4.3 |
| 7. | Boston Red Sox | -5 | 55.3 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 8. | St. Louis Cardinals | +1 | 54.7 | 4.8 | 4.3 |
| 9. | New York Mets | -3 | 53.9 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| 10. | Oakland Athletics | +3 | 53.2 | 3.6 | 3.2 |
| 11. | Los Angeles Dodgers | +3 | 51.8 | 4.0 | 3.8 |
| 12. | Pittsburgh Pirates | +5 | 51.7 | 3.9 | 3.8 |
| 13. | Detroit Tigers | -1 | 51.7 | 4.4 | 4.2 |
| 14. | Milwaukee Brewers | +1 | 51.0 | 4.4 | 4.4 |
| 15. | San Francisco Giants | -4 | 50.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 16. | Toronto Blue Jays | +6 | 50.7 | 4.3 | 4.3 |
| 17. | Philadelphia Phillies | -7 | 50.6 | 4.3 | 4.2 |
| 18. | Baltimore Orioles | +1 | 50.0 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 19. | Cleveland Indians | +1 | 49.0 | 4.2 | 4.3 |
| 20. | Arizona Diamondbacks | -2 | 48.6 | 4.4 | 4.5 |
| 21. | Tampa Bay Rays | - | 47.6 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| 22. | Miami Marlins | -6 | 47.5 | 4.0 | 4.2 |
| 23. | Minnesota Twins | +2 | 46.5 | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| 24. | Seattle Mariners | -1 | 45.0 | 3.4 | 3.8 |
| 25. | Kansas City Royals | +1 | 44.0 | 4.1 | 4.7 |
| 26. | Atlanta Braves | -2 | 43.7 | 4.2 | 4.7 |
| 27. | Colorado Rockies | - | 41.2 | 4.8 | 5.6 |
| 28. | Chicago Cubs | +2 | 39.9 | 3.9 | 4.8 |
| 29. | Houston Astros | - | 39.4 | 3.8 | 4.8 |
| 30. | San Diego Padres | -2 | 35.6 | 3.5 | 5.1 |
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