It’s official: as of Sunday, your Baltimore Orioles are the No. 1 team in MLB.com’s Power Rankings for the first time since the site started doing these over a decade ago. Wrote MLB’s Will Leitch to commemorate the occasion:
That’s right, Orioles fans: Your climb from the bottom (and you were definitely in 30th a couple of times, not that long ago) is complete. For the first time in MLB.com Power Rankings history, the Baltimore Orioles top our rankings. I suspect their fans would prefer, say, a World Series, or even a playoff series victory, but hey — No.