Every week we take a look at the weekly changes in the Baseball Organizational Rankings that we here at AMSTS have created in an effort to quantify the quality of various team’s entire organization.
For those unfamiliar with the Baseball Organizational Rankings, they’re a simple metric that takes winning percentages and weights each tier of major and minor leagues by some AMSTS-defined defaults (but are also user-customizable to play around with different results!).
New this week, the Chicago Cubs have landed the top spot in this week’s overall rankings, mostly on the back of the Major League and AAA affiliates winning six of seven games this week, giving them a 3.8 point bump and with it a jump from fourth to first. The Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers hold on to the second and third spots, while the Cleveland Indians drop to fourth from first overall, losing ground in MLB, AAA and AA.
Meanwhile in the farm rankings, the Indians are holding strong in the top spot, despite having lost 2.8 points this week. Second this week are the New York Yankees, who along with the Mariners, have hopped the Rangers for the second and third spots. The San Diego Padres jumped eight spots on a 4.5 point gain.
On the losing side of things, the worst overall teams saw little movement this week as the Atlanta Braves, Minnesota Twins, and Cincinnati Reds maintain the bottom three spots in the overall rankings, mostly tied directly to their MLB performance. In the farm rankings, the Baltimore Orioles hold the worst spot, followed by the San Francisco Giants.
As always, your miscellaneous facts:
Biggest winner (organizational): Houston, up 7 spots this week to 19th overall.
Biggest winner (farm): San Diego, up 8 spots this week to 17th overall.
Biggest loser (organizational): TIE Baltimore and Colorado, down 6 spots to 21st and 22nd overall.
Biggest loser (farm): Colorado, down 7 spots to 19th overall.
Here are your full week changes for both the full organizational rankings and the farm-only rankings which exclude the MLB affiliates. Of course you can always play around with the Baseball Organizational Rankings yourself if you want to splice the data some more.
Full organization rankings (including MLB)
| Position | MLB Team | Total Rank | Last Week Total Rank | Difference | Last Week Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chi Cubs | 141.3 | 137.5 | 3.8 | 3 |
| 2 | Seattle | 139.5 | 142.2 | -2.7 | 0 |
| 3 | Texas | 139.4 | 141.2 | -1.8 | 0 |
| 4 | Cleveland | 138.8 | 144.3 | -5.5 | -3 |
| 5 | Washington | 138.1 | 136.7 | 1.4 | 0 |
| 6 | Pittsburgh | 132.3 | 130.4 | 1.9 | 3 |
| 7 | NY Yankees | 130 | 131.4 | -1.4 | 1 |
| 8 | Boston | 127.6 | 132.4 | -4.8 | -1 |
| 9 | Philadelphia | 126.7 | 134.4 | -7.7 | -3 |
| 10 | LA Dodgers | 125.6 | 127.5 | -1.9 | 1 |
| 11 | NY Mets | 124.6 | 129.1 | -4.5 | -1 |
| 12 | Kansas City | 123.5 | 119.2 | 4.3 | 2 |
| 13 | Toronto | 123 | 117 | 6 | 4 |
| 14 | San Francisco | 121.2 | 120.9 | 0.3 | -2 |
| 15 | St. Louis | 121.1 | 116.6 | 4.5 | 4 |
| 16 | Oakland | 120.6 | 115.8 | 4.8 | 4 |
| 17 | Miami | 117.3 | 116.6 | 0.7 | 1 |
| 18 | Chi White Sox | 117.1 | 119.6 | -2.5 | -5 |
| 19 | Houston | 115.7 | 109.1 | 6.6 | 7 |
| 20 | Detroit | 115.3 | 114.9 | 0.4 | 1 |
| 21 | Baltimore | 114.8 | 117.6 | -2.8 | -6 |
| 22 | Colorado | 113.5 | 117.3 | -3.8 | -6 |
| 23 | Arizona | 113.3 | 114.7 | -1.4 | -1 |
| 24 | Milwaukee | 112.2 | 109.7 | 2.5 | 1 |
| 25 | LA Angels | 108.6 | 110.8 | -2.2 | -1 |
| 26 | San Diego | 107.9 | 104.1 | 3.8 | 1 |
| 27 | Tampa Bay | 106.6 | 113.7 | -7.1 | -4 |
| 28 | Cincinnati | 105 | 101.4 | 3.6 | 0 |
| 29 | Minnesota | 102.1 | 100 | 2.1 | 0 |
| 30 | Atlanta | 93.4 | 90.4 | 3 | 0 |
Farm rankings (excluding MLB)
| Position | MLB Team | Total Rank | Last Week Total Rank | Difference | Last Week Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cleveland | 85.9 | 88.7 | -2.8 | 0 |
| 2 | NY Yankees | 83.8 | 82.5 | 1.3 | 1 |
| 3 | Seattle | 81.8 | 81.3 | 0.5 | 1 |
| 4 | Texas | 80.9 | 83.8 | -2.9 | -2 |
| 5 | Philadelphia | 77.6 | 79.1 | -1.5 | 0 |
| 6 | Washington | 77 | 77.1 | -0.1 | 0 |
| 7 | Pittsburgh | 76.5 | 72.6 | 3.9 | 3 |
| 8 | Oakland | 74.3 | 74.1 | 0.2 | 0 |
| 9 | LA Dodgers | 73.7 | 75.4 | -1.7 | -2 |
| 10 | Minnesota | 73.3 | 73.9 | -0.6 | -1 |
| 11 | Arizona | 71.5 | 70.9 | 0.6 | 0 |
| 12 | Cincinnati | 71 | 69.5 | 1.5 | 2 |
| 13 | Chi Cubs | 70.7 | 68.6 | 2.1 | 5 |
| 14 | Toronto | 70.3 | 69.1 | 1.2 | 2 |
| 15 | Houston | 69.4 | 68.7 | 0.7 | 2 |
| 16 | St. Louis | 69.2 | 65.5 | 3.7 | 7 |
| 17 | San Diego | 69 | 64.5 | 4.5 | 8 |
| 18 | NY Mets | 68.8 | 70.4 | -1.6 | -5 |
| 19 | Colorado | 67.3 | 70.6 | -3.3 | -7 |
| 20 | Boston | 67.2 | 69.4 | -2.2 | -5 |
| 21 | Detroit | 67.2 | 64.9 | 2.3 | 3 |
| 22 | Milwaukee | 66.9 | 66.2 | 0.7 | -2 |
| 23 | Kansas City | 65.8 | 67 | -1.2 | -4 |
| 24 | Miami | 64.5 | 64.4 | 0.1 | 2 |
| 25 | Tampa Bay | 63.5 | 66 | -2.5 | -3 |
| 26 | Chi White Sox | 63.4 | 63.3 | 0.1 | 2 |
| 27 | LA Angels | 63.3 | 66.1 | -2.8 | -6 |
| 28 | Atlanta | 62.6 | 63.7 | -1.1 | -1 |
| 29 | San Francisco | 61.2 | 59.7 | 1.5 | 0 |
| 30 | Baltimore | 57.9 | 58.5 | -0.6 | 0 |