The 2015 Major League Baseball season officially gets underway on Sunday night with a marquee match-up between the rival Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals on ESPN, but we thought we’d officially get things underway a few days earlier with our pre-season Power Rankings.
Now by their nature, power rankings our subjective by nature and pre-season rankings are even more so. They are often held captive to the whims of the author or more accurately, the extent of their exposure to the game as a whole. We tried to take a bit of that subjectivity out of the equation, but interjecting not one, but four people into the process, including our last three MLB Editorial Directors (Aaron Somers, David Hill, and myself), and our Senior Director of Sports (Joel Wagler) into the voting process. The thought process was that we could come up with a consistent, consensus power ranking.
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It didn’t necessarily work out that way.
To showcase that point, the only consensus we all came to was the number 1 team in the league (we’ll get to that in a second, I promise). Outside of that pick, we had 16 different teams get top 10 nods, with one team (The Marlins) getting a second place vote on one ballot and a 22nd place spot on another. Needless to say, we had some varying opinions, but in the end, we were able to come to an agreed upon power ranking that will surely spark some debate among the masses.
With that in mind, I formerly present the inaugural MLB Power Rankings for 2015.
Next: 6-10: Royals and Tigers and Birds, oh-my!