The Yankees are ranked first in Opsera at the All-Star break, but the Rays and Red Sox are third and fourth respectively. Read more »
Christopher Reina - Baseball Analysis
MLB Power Rankings At The All-Star Break
MLB All-Stars Talk About 'The Decison' From LeBron James
Ryan Braun and Troy Tulowitzki talked to RealGM about LeBron James and starting their own big three. Read more »
MLB Power Rankings After Week 12 (July 2)
The Red Sox have charged ahead and are ranked third behind the Cardinals and Yankees. Read more »
MLB Power Rankings After Week 10 (June 14th)
The Yankees are back on top of our rankings, ahead of the Cardinals, Rays, Giants and Rockies. Read more »
MLB Power Rankings After Week 9 (June 7)
The Cardinals have retained the top slot in the power rankings for another consecutive week, trailed by the Yankees, Rays and Giants, who recently called up Buster Posey. Read more »
MLB Power Rankings After Week 8 (June 1st)
The Cardinals have reclaimed the first overall slot in the rankings, while the Rays very narrowly are ahead of the Yankees for second. Read more »
MLB Power Rankings After Week 7 (May 24)
With a +102 run differential, the Rays are ranked first in Opsera for the first time this season. Read more »
MLB Power Rankings After Week 6 (May 17th)
The Yankees have surpassed the Cardinals in the top slot. Read more »
MLB Power Rankings After Week 5 (May 10th)
The Cardinals are ranked first for the second consecutive weeks, narrowly ahead of the Yankees, while the Rays, Giants and Twins round out our top-five. Read more »
Unearned Run Cost
The goal of Unearned Run Cost (URC) is to show how many extra runs a team gives up due to their errors or how successful the team is in not allowing those errors to cost them on the scoreboard. Read more »
MLB Power Rankings After Week 4 (May 3rd)
Behind a pitching staff that has given up just 66 earned runs in over 231 innings, the Cardinals are ranked first in Opsera. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Phillies Bring In Money Truck For Howard
Ryan Howard will make $25 million annually throughout the majority of his 30s thanks to a contract from Philadelphia that already seems bloated. Read more »
RealGM MLB Power Rankings After Week 3 (April 26)
After the third week of play, we have our third different leader in Opsera, with the Giants joining the Yankees in Week 2 and Phillies in Week 1. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Rays Sign Zobrist To Extension


The Rays bought out the prime of Ben Zobrist with a five-year contract extension. The versatile switch-hitter was second in all of baseball in WAR in 2009. Read more »
RealGM MLB Team Rankings After Week 2 (April 19)
The Yankees are atop the second rankings of 2010, ahead of the Giants, Cardinals, Phillies and Twins. Read more »
Brett Anderson And The Game's Best Young Pitchers


Brett Anderson has yet to give up a run in 12 innings during the 2010 season. He is a 22-year-old southpaw with a low to mid-90s fastball and a great slider that are good enough to put him in the conversation with the likes of Lincecum, Felix and Greinke. Read more »
Early Increases For 25 Hitters
This is the time of the MLB season in which the common chorus is that we must fear the small sample size. How did the current top-25 hitters fare in 2009? Read more »
RealGM MLB Team Rankings After Week 1 (April 12)
After the first week of 2010 MLB action, two teams that made a blockbuster offseason trade, the Phillies and Blue Jays, are ranked first and second respectively. Also in the top-five are division leaders in Detroit, San Francisco and Oakland. Read more »
Baseball's Best Profiteers
Forbes has released their list of all 30 MLB team's operating income from 2009 and there were just two teams that lost, with 28 teams earning a profit. Read more »
Who Can Get Pujols Out?


Which pitcher is best equipped to retire Albert Pujols? It is Wandy Rodriguez, who can offset a fastball with a much slower curve. Unfortunately, they won't meet until the beginning of May and baseball's best player may have 62 homers by then if he continues his current pace. Read more »