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 Thursday, August 16th games:
The rankings from last week are in parenthesizes.
1. (1) New York Yankees – 4.17
2. (2) Washington Nationals – 4.09
3. (4) Cincinnati Reds – 4.07
4. (3) St. Louis Cardinals – 4.03
5. (5) Texas Rangers – 3.81
6. (9) Atlanta Braves – 3.70
7. (8) Detroit Tigers – 3.65
8. (15) Tampa Bay Rays – 3.58
T9. (6) Arizona Diamondbacks – 3.57
-- (7) Los Angeles Angels – 3.57
11. (14) Chicago White Sox – 3.48
12. (12) Los Angeles Dodgers – 3.46
13. (11) San Francisco Giants – 3.44
14. (13) Oakland Athletics – 3.39
15. (10) Pittsburgh Pirates – 3.34
16. (16) Boston Red Sox – 3.31
17. (18) Baltimore Orioles – 3.09
18. (17) Milwaukee Brewers – 3.07
19. (19) Philadelphia Phillies – 3.04
20. (20) New York Mets – 2.94
21. (24) Kansas City Royals – 2.89
22. (21) San Diego Padres – 2.85
T23. (22) Toronto Blue Jays – 2.77
-- (23) Miami Marlins – 2.77
25. (25) Seattle Mariners – 2.74
26. (26) Minnesota Twins – 2.51
27. (28) Chicago Cubs – 2.46
28. (27) Cleveland Indians – 2.41
29. (29) Colorado Rockies – 2.28
30. (30) Houston Astros – 2.14