Gather ‘round, for it’s time for the final edition of SI’s MLB Power Rankings before the 2019 All-Star Game. This week’s theme? Teams with the biggest gap between their actual records and their Pythagorean records. Whose performance has differed the most so far from what it “should” have been? (Catch up on last week’s rankings here, and read more about this format here.) Onward!
The Royals are and have been self-evidently bad, and there is no quirk of run-sequencing or scheduling or anything else that can make them look good.