MLB Power Rankings: Fanhouse.com hates the Blue Jays. …and Canadians

Fanhouse.com puts out their week 3 rankings, insults Canadian baseball fans, chooses to ignore every single widely available measure of team performance and then tops things off by ranking Florida as the best team in Major League Baseball despite it becoming obvious to everyone else in the world over the last week that the Marlins can only consistently beat the Washington Nationals.

Hey Fanhouse.com - which team:

• hasn’t lost a series yet this year
• has the most wins in MLB
• has the second fewest losses in MLB
• has the second best winning percentage in MLB
• has scored the most runs in MLB
• has second largest run differential in MLB
• has the second most HRs in MLB
• has the second best Slg% in MLB
• has second best OPS in MLB
• has the most TB in MLB
• has the third best team BA in MLB
• pitching leads the MLB in strikeouts
• has the second best team BAA in MLB
• has the second best team WHIP in MLB
• has second best team K/BB ratio in MLB
• has second best opponent OBP in MLB
• has most fielding assists in MLB
• has most put outs in MLB
• has statistically best defence in MLB
• is also top 10 in OBP, ERA, K/9IP, FPCT and fewest errors
• tagged Millwood for 4 ER (1 more than he had given up in the previous 3 starts combined)
• held Texas’ vaunted offense to a full 2 runs per game below their season average

The Toronto Blue Jays - your number 10 team. Yeah, you guys know your baseball alright.

“Enjoy it while it lasts Canada becuase we’re basing our rankings on something other than team performance” {Ed. Note - dartboard? shoving the names of teams up your asses and seeing which one gets crapped out first?}

Seriously what are you guys basing your rankings on? Look at that list: these aren’t cherry picked stats. This is every single statistical measure of team performance used in baseball. The Jays are first or second in most of them, and are either in the top 5 or top 10 in the rest. This team is dominating opponents in every single facet of the game.

Pitching - top 5
Batting - #1
Fielding - #1

Maybe the reason some of those Canadian baseball fans are comlaining isn’t homerism for the Jays - maybe it’s because your ranking of the Jays is so wildly indefensible that any sane fan reading these “power rankings” would have to wonder if anyone at fanhouse.com knows the first thing about baseball.

…and then they would look at Florida in the #1 position and say to themselves “no… no they don’t”

For the record
Florida Marlins:

• Batting:
  17th SLG, 19th OBP, 19th BA, 15th HR, 19th OPS
• Piching:
  12th BAA, 8th SO, 12th opponent OBP, 12th WHIP, 12th K/BB, 9th K/9
• Fielding:
  16th E(rrors), 15th FPCT, 18th A(ssists), 12th PO

If those numbers don’t set off alarms that scream “SMOKE AND MIRRORS!!!! OUR 11-1 START WAS SMOKE AND MIRRORS!!!!” then it’s time to get someone in to look at your early warning system.

Interesting trivia:
No team in MLB history has ever started the season by winning their first 5 series and not gone on to win their division.