Re: question

The AL East is the best division, top to bottom, based on talent and year-to-date performances. The Sox & Rays have two of the most complete teams, the Yankees have one of the best offenses & the Jays have one of the best pitching staffs (and the O's are hanging around and playing well themselves). But let's use some statistics, just to show that it's not entirely opinion:

Here are each division's winning percentage:
AL East: .539; AL Central: .468; AL West: .498
NL East: .517; NL Central: .527; NL West: .445

Here are each division's winning percentages when you remove the games which they played against each other (a win & a loss every time):
AL East: .570; AL Central: .445; AL West: .497
NL East: .531; NL Central: .552; NL West: .401

Do those numbers back up our claims? And do we really need to bring up NL versus AL? The AL has clearly been the superior league over the past 10 years. If you disagree with this, you obviously don't have your pulse on MLB at all, so you can stop saying we're wrong. And you want to bring up the Brewers? Really?!? They're a joke and they'd get slapped around in the AL East.

MLB Power Rankings - Week 9 - 5/26/08 By: John Mugatu (35 replies) Mon, 05/26/2008 - 23:06