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By Andrew Perna

The Opsera is a statistic RealGM Executive Editor Chris Reina created in order to objectively rank teams by how well they hit (OPS) and pitch (ERA).

In order to determine the Opsera rating for each, we take their OPS, multiply that number by 10 to move the decimal point over one place to the right and then subtract their ERA from that number.

Below are the rankings through the Sunday, July 8th games:
The rankings from last week are in parenthesizes.

1. (1) New York Yankees - 4.23

They have a seven-game lead in the AL East. At this time last season, they trailed the Red Sox by a game.

2. (2) Texas Rangers - 4.20

Josh Hamilton has slowed down, but still has a line of .308/.380/.635 with 27 home runs and 75 RBI, both baseball bests.

3. (3) Washington Nationals - 4.08

This may not seem true, but the Nationals are fourteen games up on the Phillies in the NL East.

4. (4) Cincinnati Reds - 3.93

Joey Votto is raking, but has not gotten much attention -- .348/.471/.617 with 14 home runs and 48 RBI.

5. (5) St. Louis Cardinals - 3.84

They are averaging 4.95 runs and have an OPS of .775 without Albert Pujols. In 2011, St. Louis scored 4.7 runs per game with a .766 OPS.

6. (6) Los Angeles Angels - 3.83

Mike Trout could become just the third player, and first since Ichiro in 2001, to win both the Rookie of the Year and MVP awards in the same season.

7. (T11) Pittsburgh Pirates - 3.57

It would take a pretty drastic collapse for the Pirates to finish below .500.

8. (T11) Detroit Tigers - 3.56

They have underachieved, but sit less than four games behind the White Sox in the AL Central through the first half.

9. (7) Los Angeles Dodgers - 3.53

10. (9) Chicago White Sox - 3.51

11. (13) Arizona Diamondbacks - 3.49

12. (8) Boston Red Sox - 3.48

13. (15) Atlanta Braves - 3.41

14. (10) San Francisco Giants - 3.33

15. (14) New York Mets - 3.31

16. (16) Oakland Athletics - 3.29

17. (17) Tampa Bay Rays - 3.16

18. (20) Milwaukee Brewers - 3.12

19. (18) Toronto Blue Jays - 3.09

20. (19) Baltimore Orioles - 2.99

21. (21) Philadelphia Phillies - 2.96

T22. (22) Kansas City Royals - 2.85

-- (24) Cleveland Indians - 2.85

24. (25) Miami Marlins - 2.83

25. (23) San Diego Padres - 2.75

26. (26) Seattle Mariners - 2.53

27. (29) Chicago Cubs - 2.50

28. (28) Colorado Rockies - 2.49

29. (27) Houston Astros - 2.45

30. (30) Minnesota Twins - 2.34