MLB.com is not immune to the same market forces that compel us to post for clicks here on McCovey Chronicles. One of the league’s new online practices for this season is to do some sort of weekly power ranking for starting pitchers and it’s a little nutty.
For the moment, let’s forget that this is a San Francisco Giants blog with a firm rooting interest in the starting rotation for the San Francisco Giants (yes, even Blake Snell), and instead focus on what the league’s site is doing.
Starting Pitcher Power Rankings, Opening Day Edition (March 27th)
How Starting Pitching Power Rankings shake out after Strider’s injury (April 10th)
Pair of aces on new teams pace 1st Cy Young poll (April 16th)
This is a lot of polling in a short amount of time, for one thing, and the premises they’re using as a means of redoing the rankings nearly every week feel very sweaty.