Red Hot Texas Rangers Move into MLB Power Rankings Top 5 According to Simulation

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 disabled list, 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	Change	Win Pct	RS/G	RA/G
1.	New York Yankees	-	60.5	4.8	3.8
2.	Philadelphia Phillies	+1	59.4	4.2	3.2
3.	Boston Red Sox	-1	59.0	4.7	3.8
4.	Texas Rangers	+4	58.4	4.7	3.9
5.	Cincinnati Reds	-	57.4	4.4	3.7
6.	St. Louis Cardinals	-2	55.1	4.4	3.9
7.	Los Angeles Angels	-	54.7	3.9	3.5
8.	Tampa Bay Rays	-2	54.3	3.8	3.5
9.	Milwaukee Brewers	+2	52.6	4.3	4.0
10.	Cleveland Indians	-1	52.4	3.8	3.6
	Team	Change	Win Pct	RS/G	RA/G
11.	Detroit Tigers	+3	52.2	4.3	4.1
12.	New York Mets	-2	52.0	4.5	4.3
13.	Arizona Diamondbacks	+5	50.7	4.1	4.0
14.	San Francisco Giants	+1	50.2	3.6	3.5
15.	Atlanta Braves	-3	50.2	3.6	3.6
16.	Chicago White Sox	+3	49.4	3.5	3.6
17.	Florida Marlins	+4	48.9	4.0	4.1
18.	Toronto Blue Jays	-5	48.7	4.0	4.0
19.	Kansas City Royals	+3	48.2	4.0	4.2
20.	Colorado Rockies	+3	47.9	4.1	4.4
	Team	Change	Win Pct	RS/G	RA/G
21.	Pittsburgh Pirates	-1	47.9	3.6	3.8
22.	Washington Nationals	-5	47.6	3.6	3.9
23.	Los Angeles Dodgers	-7	46.8	3.7	4.0
24.	Baltimore Orioles	+6	45.1	4.0	4.4
25.	San Diego Padres	+2	44.1	3.2	3.6
26.	Seattle Mariners	-2	42.8	2.9	3.5
27.	Oakland Athletics	-2	42.1	3.1	3.7
28.	Chicago Cubs	-2	41.9	3.9	4.7
29.	Minnesota Twins	-1	40.2	3.4	4.4
30.	Houston Astros	-1	39.3	3.7	4.7