Every week, we ask all of our baseball writers — both the local scribes and the national team, more than 30 writers in all — to rank the teams from first to worst. Here are the collective results, the TA30.
Congratulations! You made it to this, the 27th and final week of The Athletic’s 2022 MLB Power Rankings, a weekly endeavor of ours to sort through a major league hierarchy independent of pesky figures like win-loss records. There’s nothing like authoring some power rankings to make you feel empathy for Joe Buck. “I’m just the guy in the suit telling you your team lost,” Buck once said. And we’re just the dressed-down people putting a number next to your team.
In any given week, there are somewhere between 35 to 50 of our baseball writers and editors voting on these power rankings, depending on whether Marc Carig was too busy making dad jokes on Twitter. And if your team got dissed, well, it wasn’t James’s fault or my fault; it was somebody else who voted them down, I swear. We actually love your team.
The postseason will soon decide the proper, fully formed pecking order of teams. Until then, here is the last, most definitive list of 2022’s baseball season, with one thing to look back on for every team and one to look forward to this month and beyond.
1. Los Angeles Dodgers
Record: 110-49 Last Power Ranking: 1
One highlight: The entire season is a highlight, just go with it. The Dodgers’ run differential right now is +333, almost 100 runs better than the next ranked team, the Yankees.
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