MLB Power Ratings
Our staff has developed MLB baseball power ratings with up to date rankings and how we as handicappers see these teams. We will list our MLB team rankings on a week by week basis and as much as possible. You can check this page for up to date MLB power ratings from Cappersinfo Sports Handicapping. Thanks for visiting and don't forget to check out all the free sports picks in the forums and free picks monitor, other sports betting information, and MLB baseball predictions for sports handicappers!
Cappersinfo Current MLB Power Rankings
(As of Games Completed 8/15/11)
1: Philadelphia Phillies (78-41) – There’s just no denying how good Roy Halladay and the Phils really are. They’ve got 78 wins already on the season, and Halladay already has accounted for 15 directly and a 20-4 record in his 24 starts this season. The addition of Hunter Pence to the outfield is only going to help, but this offense is still lacking if it really wants to make a run at the World Series. Philly had better be winning a ton of games 1-0 and 2-1.
2: Boston Red Sox (73-46) – The boys from Beantown are back in the saddle in the AL East, and though they might not actually win the division, they’ll have no troubles winning at least 90 games and making the postseason. Boston’s pitching staff looks a bit more cut and paste now than it did at the beginning of the season, and adding Erik Bedard just didn’t do it for us.
3: New York Yankees (73-46) – New York drops down a spot behind the Red Sox for now, but separating these two teams is like splitting hairs. The Yanks missed out once again on all of the top pitching names out there at the trade deadline, which has to leave General Manager Brian Cashman wondering his next move. Freddy Garcia and Bartolo Colon pitching in the postseason isn’t appealing.
4: Milwaukee Brewers (71-51) – Could the Brew Crew end up winning more than 60 games this year at home? It sure looks like it’s possible. Zack Greinke has proven to be the perfect pickup for this rotation, and with a six game lead in the NL Central, it’s starting to look like Milwaukee is going to be back in the postseason for the first time since CC Sabathia left town. It looks like a nearly three decade run without a division title is going to come to a close this year.
5: Atlanta Braves (71-51) – Atlanta added the absolutely perfect piece to the puzzle at the trade deadline in Michael Bourne. This was a team with zero speed whatsoever, and now, Bourne has changed all of that. This is quietly a pitching staff that can hang in there with the best in the biz, and if youth is served, the Braves are a heck of a lot more likely to end up in the World Series this year than they were last season.
6: Arizona Diamondbacks (68-53) – Sure, there are teams out there with better records than the D’Backs, but the way that they are playing right now, no one is going to stop them. They’re now 2.5 up in the NL West, and they are playing great ball having won six in a row. Can Arizona really knock off the defending champs? Right now, Manager Kirk Gibson is running away with NL Manager of the Year honors, and he is certainly in the right state to get his team to a division pennant.
7: Texas Rangers (70-52) – It was hairy there for a few weeks, but in the end, Texas has basically put away Anaheim for the top spot in the AL West. Sure, the Rangers could blow this five game lead that they have put together, but we know that the No. 3 ranked offense in the game parlayed with a newly formed bullpen with Koji Uehara and Mike Adams setting up Neftali Feliz that Texas is once again the team to beat in this division, even without an ace like Cliff Lee heading up the staff.
8: San Francisco Giants (66-56) – The G-Men are legitimately in trouble. They’re only 10 games above .500, and though they play a relatively easy schedule for the rest of the season, so do the D’Backs. The offense has gotten nothing from Carlos Beltran, and now he is injured, so there definitely has been no remedy to arguably the biggest problem in baseball. The pitching staff just isn’t good enough this year to get the job done without at least a few competent bats in the fold.
9: Tampa Bay Rays (64-55) – We’re a little surprised that the Rays weren’t really buyers or sellers at the trade deadline, but we know that General Manager Andrew Friedman doesn’t make a move unless he knows that it is going to help his team. The Desmond Jennings era has begun in the outfield in Tampa Bay, which probably means that ultimately, BJ Upton is going to be out of a job. Again, we’re shocked that he wasn’t dealt at the deadline. We know that he’ll go in the offseason.
10: St. Louis Cardinals (65-57) – St. Louis is quietly hanging around, and Chris Carpenter has regained his form, but there just might not be enough time to run down Atlanta and/or Milwaukee. The truth of the matter is that the Cardinals are a fringe Top 10 team in baseball, and that, for the most part, is going to keep you out of the postseason.
11: Detroit Tigers (64-57) – The Tigers kept relatively quiet this year, but they did just make an interesting move, trading for a potentially huge bat in Delmon Young. That means that Magglio Ordonez has probably hit the end of his career. Justin Verlander is still pitching like a Cy Young Award winner, but the rest of this team is average at best.
12: Toronto Blue Jays (61-60) – Hey, if you had to play 19 games against the Yanks, Red Sox, and Rays, you’d be happy to be .500, too. Picking up Colby Rasmus for essentially a song and a dance during the trade season was the second very, very thrifty move made by the Jays in recent years. With a young pitching staff and moves like picking up Rasmus and last year’s acquisition, Yunel Escobar, this team is definitely up and coming for the future.
13: Chicago White Sox (60-60) – Manager Ozzie Guillen and company are still keeping their jobs… for now… Chicago has wavered right around that .500 mark for quite some time this year, but the truth of the matter is that 85 wins is probably going to win this division. There are a ton of games left against the Indians and Tigers, and those are going to be the games that determine which one of these three teams will get into the postseason.
14: Cleveland Indians (60-57) – Sure, Cleveland is in front of Chicago in the AL Central race, but we just aren’t so sure that this club really has the ability to hang in there for another month and change or not. What was once a remarkable home record has dipped to just 33-25, and the addition of Ubaldo Jimenez, though certainly notable, really hasn’t caused any ruckus yet. If it doesn’t and he doesn’t catch fire, this won’t be the year for the Tribe.
15: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (65-57) – The Halos might have one of the Top 12 records in baseball, but that doesn’t mean that they are justified as a top half of the league team right now. Again, just like the Tigers, without Jered Weaver, the Angels really aren’t all that great. They’re five games back and are almost certain to freefall out of the division race and the postseason chase here in the next few weeks.
16: New York Mets (59-62) – The Mets have done a remarkable job hanging around this .500 mark on the season, but they probably aren’t going to end up staying there when push comes to shove. Keep in mind that the team traded K-Rod and Carlos Beltran, and they didn’t get a single inning out of Johan Santana on the campaign. Finishing 20 games out from the best record in baseball would be a triumph.
17: Cincinnati Reds (59-62) – The Reds are probably the next best team in the NL Central this year in spite of the fact that they really have underachieved. There are still dim playoff hopes, but the chances of making up a dozen games in a month and a half are slim and none. The pitching just wasn’t there this season for Manager Dusty Baker and company.
18: Washington Nationals (57-62) – The up and coming Nationals are nine games above .500 at home this year, a mark that is comparable to some of the best teams in the game. Washington kept trying to make moves for the future that failed miserably at the trade deadline, but don’t be surprised if we end up seeing Stephen Strasburg, Bryce Harper, and potentially some legit free agent pickups lead this team towards the postseason in 2012.
19: Minnesota Twins (53-67) – Minnesota only finally packed it in for the year this week, as it decided that it was finally a seller two weeks before the waiver trade deadline for the playoffs. Delmon Young is now gone, signaling the end to deal gone bad a few years back that sent Matt Garza to the Rays with Jason Bartlett.
20: Colorado Rockies (57-66) – The Rocks probably made the right move by sending off Ubaldo Jimenez to the Indians, but they have a heck of a lot of rebuilding to do. Money is going to be tight after giving a slew of cash to Troy Tulowitzki and Carlos Gonzalez in the offseason, so these kids that were acquired in the Ubaldo deal had better be coming up to the bigs in a big time way.
21: Pittsburgh Pirates (57-63) – So much for that .500 mark… The Bucs ended up losing 11 games in a row a few weeks ago, and that was really the end of the dream for making the playoffs and for finishing above .500 for the first time in nearly two decades. Still, we admire the way that the Pirates went for it at the trade deadline and picked up Derrek Lee and Ryan Ludwick, though it’s clear that the moves just didn’t work out.
22: Chicago Cubs (54-68) – The Cubbies had some good stretches of baseball for a few weeks, and Manager Mike Quade might have gotten a huge break by getting Carlos Zambrano to “retire.” Whether Big Z actually ends up hanging it up is a different story, but we know that he won’t be back on this team again unless he can win over his clubhouse mates.
23: Florida Marlins (56-65) – The Fish were probably the biggest disappointment this year. They didn’t really end up competing this season, something that was seen as a foregone conclusion. However, Florida still has some pieces to the puzzle that really could work out in the long run, but with the team moving into a new stadium next year, we just don’t buy the club not trading pieces to the puzzle to restock with some more prospects. Mediocre isn’t going to cut it.
24: Seattle Mariners (53-67) – We love the fact that the Mariners caught the Red Sox in a pickle at the trade deadline, and they ended up making a king’s ransom for Erik Bedard. If any of these prospects pan out, the idea of putting together Felix Hernandez and Michael Pineda with some of these others youngsters really is appealing. The big disappointment this year for the M’s is that Ichiro really is looking like he is decaying for the first time in his career.
25: Oakland Athletics (53-68) – The A’s didn’t do much at the trade deadline, something that was truly puzzling for a team that was supposed to finish above .500 this year. General Manager Billy Beane must really believe in this club for next season, or he probably would have imploded it by July 31st. Still, at 15 games below .500, this has been a tremendously disappointing team on the campaign.
26: Los Angeles Dodgers (55-65) – Hiroki Kuroda really screwed over the Dodgers at the trade deadline by denying the team the access to trade him, and the club turned out to be cash strapped to make any moves to better the team. Still, Manager Don Mattingly doesn’t have a team that should be 10 games below .500… he should have one that is about 20 games below .500. Clayton Kershaw is quietly putting up Cy Young type of numbers, but he won’t win the award when push comes to shove.
27: San Diego Padres (54-69) – The Padres probably surprised some teams by trading away Mike Adams and not Heath Bell at the trade deadline. We wouldn’t have been surprised had both been traded, but knowing that it was only one, it’s a shock that it wasn’t Bell that went. San Diego definitely did a nice job retooling its farm system after going for it last year, but there was so much more that could have been done.
28: Kansas City Royals (50-72) – Are the Royals going to lose 100 games again this year? This is a tremendous AAA club… but the problem is that the AAA club is playing in Kansas City and not actually in AAA. In all seriousness, KC has one of the best farm teams in the league, so the future is bright… whenever that future actually comes.
29: Baltimore Orioles (47-72) – Trades were aplenty for the Orioles at the trade deadline. The young arms just didn’t make the strides this year that Manager Buck Showalter had really hopes for, and we wonder if he has just one more year to try to make this team a little bit more competent.
30: Houston Astros (38-84) – The possibility is really there that the Astros could be the worst team in the history of baseball. They are only on pace to win 50 games this year, and they are fielding a lineup that includes virtually no household names. Both Hunter Pence and Michael Bourne were traded, which really leaves the fans in the Lone Star State nothing to look forward to.
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