And so, early in the first week of the MLB regular season, we launch our inaugural edition of the MLB Power Rankings, as voted and remarked on by SB Nation MLB bloggers Jim McLennan, Will McDonald, Sam Page, Kyle Lobner, Jeff Sullivan, and Randy Booth. The top three may surprise you. Or they may not, at all.
MLB Power Rankings: Looking Ahead To A Season Of Mystery And Intrigue
Hi there, and welcome to the first-ever run of the SBNation MLB Power Rankings. What is a ‘power ranking,’ you ask? Let’s break it down. Dictionary.com defines ‘power’ as:
That about captures it. A power ranking, for our purposes, serves to rank Major League baseball teams on a 1-through-30 scale by their perceived capability of doing something. Indeed, the team that finishes last is deemed least able to do something, while the team that finishes first may be able to do anything, at any time, whenever it wants. It’s a scale that, like none other, is able to separate the likely doers from the likely do-nothings.
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