2012 MLB Power Rankings for July 23rd: Making Straight A's
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 timesโ50 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.)
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Teams Ranked by Winning Percentage
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| 1. | Texas Rangers | - | 62.2 | 4.8 | 3.6 |
| 2. | Washington Nationals | - | 60.0 | 4.4 | 3.6 |
| 3. | New York Yankees | +2 | 57.1 | 5.0 | 4.2 |
| 4. | Cincinnati Reds | +2 | 56.6 | 4.5 | 3.8 |
| 5. | Los Angeles Angels | -2 | 56.1 | 4.5 | 3.9 |
| 6. | Boston Red Sox | +2 | 55.1 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 7. | Detroit Tigers | +2 | 54.7 | 4.4 | 3.9 |
| 8. | St. Louis Cardinals | -1 | 54.1 | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| 9. | Philadelphia Phillies | +12 | 53.0 | 4.2 | 4.1 |
| 10. | Oakland Athletics | +6 | 52.5 | 3.6 | 3.4 |
| 11. | San Francisco Giants | +8 | 51.9 | 4.0 | 3.9 |
| 12. | Los Angeles Dodgers | -1 | 51.4 | 3.9 | 3.8 |
| 13. | Chicago White Sox | -9 | 51.2 | 3.8 | 3.7 |
| 14. | New York Mets | -4 | 51.1 | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| 15. | Pittsburgh Pirates | +2 | 50.9 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 16. | Arizona Diamondbacks | -3 | 50.1 | 4.4 | 4.3 |
| 17. | Milwaukee Brewers | +1 | 48.6 | 4.2 | 4.4 |
| 18. | Minnesota Twins | -6 | 48.5 | 4.1 | 4.2 |
| 19. | Tampa Bay Rays | +4 | 48.1 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 20. | Cleveland Indians | -5 | 47.9 | 4.2 | 4.3 |
| 21. | Miami Marlins | +1 | 47.5 | 3.9 | 4.1 |
| 22. | Chicago Cubs | +2 | 46.4 | 3.8 | 4.2 |
| 23. | Toronto Blue Jays | -9 | 45.2 | 4.3 | 4.7 |
| 24. | Colorado Rockies | +3 | 44.2 | 4.5 | 5.1 |
| 25. | Seattle Mariners | +1 | 44.1 | 3.4 | 3.8 |
| 26. | Kansas City Royals | +2 | 44.0 | 4.1 | 4.6 |
| 27. | Baltimore Orioles | -7 | 43.9 | 3.8 | 4.3 |
| 28. | Atlanta Braves | -3 | 43.8 | 4.1 | 4.6 |
| 29. | San Diego Padres | - | 43.1 | 3.5 | 4.2 |
| 30. | Houston Astros | - | 36.6 | 3.6 | 4.9 |
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