Fooled By Randomness

Who's the best team in the AL? If you said the Angels, you're wrong, though you're in the company of a fairly smart community.

To compare the Angels with the Red Sox and Rays, I present ten statistical categories, along with where each team ranks (among the three) in that category:

	LAA	Bos	Tam
W-L	1st	3rd	2nd
Third-order W-L	3rd	1st	2nd
OBP	3rd	1st	2nd
SLG%	3rd	1st	2nd
OPS allowed	3rd	1st	2nd
Run differential	3rd	1st	2nd
ERA	3rd	2nd	1st
xFIP	3rd	2nd	1st
Def. Efficiency	3rd	2nd	1st
Zone Rating	3rd	2nd	1st

I think this pretty much speaks for itself.