S U R F R A T
Sporadically Updated Ratings For Ranking AL Teams
By: BosoxBob - 6/10/02
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SURFRAT is a power rankings report done by one of our regular posters (from San Diego) on the message board BosoxBob. This report will be updated at BosoxBob's leisure, as the title explains, updates will be sporadic.
An explanation of how the rankings are calculated can be found at the bottom of this page.
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Rank | Team | RPI | Record | Previous | Comment | |
 | 1 | Y-----s | .728 | 40-23 | 2 | News Flash! Scientists have taught a chicken from Texas how to throw a baseball. |
 | 2 | Red Sox | .726 | 40-20 | 1 | Snakebitten Sox hoping that some Rocky Mountain air can cure their ills. |
 | 3 | Mariners | .653 | 38-24 | 3 | M's experience one of the perils of interleague play - running into a hot pitcher (Prior) or batter (Sosa) - in losing 2 of 3 to the lowly Cubbies. |
 | 4 | Angels | .642 | 36-24 | 4 | Angels breathing down Mariners' necks. First place this week? |
 | 5 | Twins | .532 | 36-27 | 7 | Twins better build up a big lead now because after this month, their schedule gets a lot tougher (e.g. 6 against Boston, 9 against both Seattle and Oakland). |
 | 6 | White Sox | .516 | 31-32 | 5 | Talk about your bad Junes, Chisox are 3-6 so far, and their offense is having a power outage. |
 | 7 | A's | .485 | 32-30 | 8 | Another big turnaround in Oakland this year? Doubtful, but they'll probably make life difficult for the M's and Angels. |
 | 8 | Orioles | .479 | 28-32 | 6 | Good pitching has been keeping the O's in ballgames. Too bad their batters are wielding toothpicks. |
 | 9 | Blue Jays | .430 | 20-33 | 11 | Hmmm, new manager Tosca is 6-1 so far. I guess they should have dumped Bucky-ball earlier. |
 | 10 | Indians | .400 | 30-32 | 9 | Whoever on the Indians' staff is suppose to inform their pitchers that batting practice is over and the game has started isn't doing his job. |
 | 11 | Rangers | .382 | 24-37 | 10 | Things returning to normal in Texas: the pitching sucks, Irabu is a fat toad again, and Carl's on the DL. |
 | 12 | Royals | .359 | 24-36 | 12 | The good news: Royals give Kaufmann Stadium fans something to cheer about this weekend. The bad news: most of the crowd were Cards fans. |
 | 13 | Devil Rays | .295 | 20-41 | 14 | The DRays - the NL's favorite interleague opponent. |
 | 14 | Tigers | .275 | 21-40 | 13 | Are the Tigers a bad team, or what? They should hire Randy Smith back, just so they can fire his ass again! |
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