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MLB 13 The Show - Overall Team Ratings, Including Batting, Pitching and Defense

11:57 AM - February 22, 2013 by Steve_OS

Thanks to chrisjohnson83 (who has already confirmed his legit copy of the game with me), we have screenshots of the overall team ratings for MLB 13 The Show. This includes batting, pitching and defensive team ratings.

The ratings are accurate as of the January 24th roster update, so there will probably be subtle changes before release date on March 5th.

Overall Team Rating

1. Detroit Tigers
2. St. Louis Cardinals
3. Boston Red Sox
4. Los Angeles Angels
5. Toronto Blue Jays
6. Texas Rangers
7. Washington Nationals
8. Atlanta Braves
9. Cincinnati Reds
10. Philadelphia Phillies
11. New York Yankees
12. Los Angeles Dodgers
13. Colorado Rockies
14. Chicago White Sox
15. Arizona Diamondbacks
16. Tampa Bay Rays
17. San Francisco Giants
18. Oakland Athletics
19. Kansas City Royals
20. Milwaukee Brewers
21. Baltimore Orioles
22. Pittsburgh Pirates
23. Seattle Mariners
24. Cleveland Indians
25. San Diego Padres
26. Minnesota Twins
27. Chicago Cubs
28. New York Mets
29. Miami Marlins
30. Houston Astros

Team Batting

1. Detroit Tigers
2. Los Angeles Angels
3. Colorado Rockies
4. Boston Red Sox
5. Texas Rangers
6. Toronto Blue Jays
7. Cincinnati Reds
8. St. Louis Cardinals
9. Washington Nationals
10. Los Angeles Dodgers
11. New York Yankees
12. Atlanta Braves
13. Philadelphia Phillies
14. Milwaukee Brewers
15. Baltimore Orioles
16. Arizona Diamondbacks
17. Chicago White Sox
18. Kansas City Royals
19. Oakland Athletics
20. Pittsburgh Pirates
21. Cleveland Indians
22. San Francisco Giants
23. Seattle Mariners
24. Tampa Bay Rays
25. Miami Marlins
26. New York Mets
27. San Diego Padres
28. Minnesota Twins
29. Chicago Cubs
30. Houston Astros

Team Pitching

1. Philadelphia Phillies
2. Washington Nationals
3. Atlanta Braves
4. St. Louis Cardinals
5. Tampa Bay Rays
6. New York Yankees
7. Toronto Blue Jays
8. Los Angeles Dodgers
9. San Francisco Giants
10. Boston Red Sox
11. Cincinnati Reds
12. Texas Rangers
13. Detroit Tigers
14. Los Angeles Angels
15. Arizona Diamondbacks
16. Oakland Athletics
17. Chicago White Sox
18. Kansas City Royals
19. San Diego Padres
20. Seattle Mariners
21. Cleveland Indians
22. Pittsburgh Pirates
23. Colorado Rockies
24. Milwaukee Brewers
25. Baltimore Orioles
26. Chicago Cubs
27. Minnesota Twins
28. New York Mets
29. Houston Astros
30. Miami Marlins

Team Defense

1. New York Yankees
2. Los Angeles Dodgers
3. Los Angeles Angels
4. Tampa Bay Rays
5. Cincinnati Reds
6. Philadelphia Phillies
7. Atlanta Braves
8. Chicago Cubs
9. Baltimore Orioles
10. San Francisco Giants
11. Texas Rangers
12. Washington Nationals
13. Colorado Rockies
14. St. Louis Cardinals
15. Boston Red Sox
16. Kansas City Royals
17. Arizona Diamondbacks
18. San Diego Padres
19. Detroit Tigers
20. Houston Astros
21. Pittsburgh Pirates
22. Cleveland Indians
23. Seattle Mariners
24. Oakland Athletics
25. Miami Marlins
26. Toronto Blue Jays
27. Minnesota Twins
28. Milwaukee Brewers
29. Chicago White Sox
30. New York Mets

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Member Comments

# 241 Lovesports @ 02/23/13 04:01 PM

Videos please. I've seen like one inning of gameplay so far and the game comes out in less than two weeks. Seriously guys, I really want to see actual game footage

# 242 Lovesports @ 02/23/13 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Padgoi


	As a Yankee fan, I can say: - the Yankees rating looks good. - the Red Sox seem highly overrated, but we all know the developers are Sox fans. They've admitted this in the past. Just a shame it spills into the game. - the Rays seem underrated. - Blue Jays and Angels seem ok to me. - Giants should certainly be higher, though they did lose Melky. Not withstanding PEDs, he did carry them in the entire first half of the season. - Orioles seem substantially underrated.

I agree with you for the most part. I would like to see giants, yankees and oriols higher. I would like to see sox and jays lower. Rays seem fine...maybe a spot or two higher. I think overall the rankings are not terrible but few teams are very questionable. A's should be a lot higher...definitely higher than Blue Jays

# 243 LionsFanNJ @ 02/23/13 04:50 PM

*enters thread*
*looks at Mets rankings*

...well they're not last at least

*leaves thread*

Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

# 244 rts5002 @ 02/23/13 05:16 PM

There's always going to be arguing over player/team ratings, hell look at the top 100 player in 2013 on mlb network, Dickey, Tulo, Castro, Harper, Greinke, Heyward, Rivera, all in the bottom 50. Theyre all great players and anyone of them COULD have been in the top 50 with no arguements, but when youre comparing pitchers, catchers, infielders and outfielders, youre going to get some weird rating in terms of relativity to other players/teams.

I think we can all put this to rest by agreeing the Phillies should be 1st in everything end of story.

Can't wait for ppl who cant take a joke to rip that statement apart!

# 245 HustlinOwl @ 02/23/13 05:22 PM

Jays fans in MLB The Show forum are the new Braves fans

# 246 metsfan4life1 @ 02/23/13 05:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by LionsFanNJ


	enters thread looks at Mets rankings ...well they're not last at least leaves thread Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2

What world are you living in? Lol

# 247 metsfan4life1 @ 02/23/13 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dalger21


	Random thought....Noticing that people here think they are entitled to something because they think they matter more than everyone else simply because they know Ramone or the developers. Strange...

That's an overeaction. Some of the people here probably don't even know whos who. People can say as they please. I don't know why people who have no association with the company of SECA take offense to other peoples comments about ratings. As long as we're not making murder threats or posts that don't have anything to do with the thread, we should be able to say what we want without getting thrown down as wanting or being "spoiled"

# 248 nemesis04 @ 02/23/13 07:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Padgoi


	As a Yankee fan, I can say: - the Yankees rating looks good. - the Red Sox seem highly overrated, but we all know the developers are Sox fans. They've admitted this in the past. Just a shame it spills into the game. - the Rays seem underrated. - Blue Jays and Angels seem ok to me. - Giants should certainly be higher, though they did lose Melky. Not withstanding PEDs, he did carry them in the entire first half of the season. - Orioles seem substantially underrated.

Funny, when we are at the events I never see one Red Sox fan on the development team.

# 249 djo201 @ 02/23/13 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by nemesis04


	Funny, when we are at the events I never see one Red Sox fan on the development team.

Not with you and tabarnes there intimidating them

# 250 nomo17k @ 02/23/13 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by djo201


	Not with you and tabarnes there intimidating them

h&v is also a Yankee fan.....

# 251 nemesis04 @ 02/23/13 07:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nomo17k


	h&v is also a Yankee fan.....

So is 42 and nyyanks. All have been there this year.

# 252 Glenn33 @ 02/23/13 08:25 PM

Oh boy...gonna be a long year

# 253 CabreraMVP @ 02/23/13 08:48 PM

People need to understand why the Giants are ranked so low. Yes, they won the World Series, but look at the roster. Guys like Gregor Blanco helped them in real life, but he's not going to be highly rated in the game. Even Scutaro isn't the type of guy who will be rated highly in a video game.

The Giants are better than the sum of their parts. If you break them down player for player, they are nowhere near being the most talented team in baseball. But they had an odd group of guys who were able to grind out games and win. But that doesn't translate to a video game.

# 254 CabreraMVP @ 02/23/13 08:56 PM

"In the AL, they finished with 7th best record, 7h best run differential, losing road record, losing record outside the Central, all this despite playing in the weakest division and getting to beat up KC, Cle, Min, and an average Chi. They might have the worst defense in AL, and are slow everywhere. They get an easy playoff road and have Verlander and Miggy/Prince so people think they are some juggernaut."

The ratings aren't based on last years records, they are based on current rosters. The Tigers upgraded each of their weaknesses that made them struggle so much last year.

Brennan Boesch had a -1.5 WAR last year. He's replaced by Torii Hunter who had a WAR of 5.5.

Delmon Young had a -1.2 WAR last year. He's replaced by Martinez who had a 3 WAR in '11

They have a full year of Omar Infante, who is a huge upgrade offensively and defensively from what they got in the first half of last year from Raburn who hit .190.

And they have a full season of Anibal Sanchez.

Defensively, Austin Jackson and Hunter are two of the best (if not the best) at their positions. Infante is a very good defender and he's replacing one of the leagues worst 2nd basemen (Raburn.) Andy Dirks is the everday LF and he's just slightly below average. Even Jhonny Peralta is one of the better defenders at shortstop, despite his range. They aren't the worst.

Is it really hard to see why they are ranked highly? They were an 88 win team who got rid of all their bad players and replaced them with well above average players. They improved every single aspect of their team that could have been improved.

And also they have 3 of the best players in the league so that will boost their ratings too. And Jackson is becoming one of the games better center fielders. But they aren't top heavy, they have a great team because of the supporting cast.

# 255 thaSLAB @ 02/23/13 08:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nemesis04


	So is 42 and nyyanks. All have been there this year.

We absolutely need more Tigers fans! Only ranked #1? Are you kiddi... oh wait... Never mind.

-- Sent from the Future...

# 256 Lovesports @ 02/23/13 09:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CabreraMVP


	"In the AL, they finished with 7th best record, 7h best run differential, losing road record, losing record outside the Central, all this despite playing in the weakest division and getting to beat up KC, Cle, Min, and an average Chi. They might have the worst defense in AL, and are slow everywhere. They get an easy playoff road and have Verlander and Miggy/Prince so people think they are some juggernaut." The ratings aren't based on last years records, they are based on current rosters. The Tigers upgraded each of their weaknesses that made them struggle so much last year. Brennan Boesch had a -1.5 WAR last year. He's replaced by Torii Hunter who had a WAR of 5.5. Delmon Young had a -1.2 WAR last year. He's replaced by Martinez who had a 3 WAR in '11 They have a full year of Omar Infante, who is a huge upgrade offensively and defensively from what they got in the first half of last year from Raburn who hit .190. And they have a full season of Anibal Sanchez. Defensively, Austin Jackson and Hunter are two of the best (if not the best) at their positions. Infante is a very good defender and he's replacing one of the leagues worst 2nd basemen (Raburn.) Andy Dirks is the everday LF and he's just slightly below average. Even Jhonny Peralta is one of the better defenders at shortstop, despite his range. They aren't the worst. Is it really hard to see why they are ranked highly? They were an 88 win team who got rid of all their bad players and replaced them with well above average players. They improved every single aspect of their team that could have been improved. And also they have 3 of the best players in the league so that will boost their ratings too. And Jackson is becoming one of the games better center fielders. But they aren't top heavy, they have a great team because of the supporting cast.

If we are looking at it player for player then Yankees and Angels have the best lineups imo

# 257 TrainerMatt21 @ 02/23/13 11:18 PM

#3 Red Sox

As a Sox fan, I approve this (fully knowing that we are not the third best team in the league

). Honestly, I'll be happy if Lester can periodically find the strike zone, Clay B. doesn't tear a hamstring sipping from the water fountain, and Lackey remembers why he was once a major league pitcher. Ortiz and Pedroia have been carrying this team for a while now. Need huge seasons from them, Ellsbury, Middlebrooks, Drew, and something from Napoli/Saltalamacchia.

Anyways, nice!

# 258 Bondsfan @ 02/24/13 12:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CabreraMVP


	People need to understand why the Giants are ranked so low. Yes, they won the World Series, but look at the roster. Guys like Gregor Blanco helped them in real life, but he's not going to be highly rated in the game. Even Scutaro isn't the type of guy who will be rated highly in a video game. The Giants are better than the sum of their parts. If you break them down player for player, they are nowhere near being the most talented team in baseball. But they had an odd group of guys who were able to grind out games and win. But that doesn't translate to a video game.

I agree 100% regarding the Giants offense. Absolutely they arent going to translate into high ratings. Its the pitching staff ranking 9th that boggles my mind. One of the best bullbens in baseball and a rotation 1-5 that ranks up there with any team in baseball. Thats what has me scratching my head.

Then again, do the team ratings take in to effect the whole 40 roster instead of just the MLB 25? Maybe thats watering done their ratings?

# 259 ERA @ 02/24/13 02:11 AM

Glad to see my A's up there!

And how in the hell are the Red Sox #3?!

# 260 ParisB @ 02/24/13 03:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bondsfan


	I agree 100% regarding the Giants offense. Absolutely they arent going to translate into high ratings. Its the pitching staff ranking 9th that boggles my mind. One of the best bullbens in baseball and a rotation 1-5 that ranks up there with any team in baseball. Thats what has me scratching my head. Then again, do the team ratings take in to effect the whole 40 roster instead of just the MLB 25? Maybe thats watering done their ratings?

Giants pitching is overrated. They were 11th in the NL in road ERA. People completely dismiss park factors when looking at team stats and player stats. Considering the entire MLB, they were ranked 27th in defense errors committed and fielding percentage, and 12th in runs scored. Seeing them at 17th overall isn't as far fetched as it may seem.

Yes, Giants won the world series. But like the previous guy said, talent wise they don't stack up. Any of the top 15 teams in baseball can beat anybody in a 7 game series. Guys like Scutaro played out of their minds. They can make the post season pretty easily playing in the NL West, and from there the playoffs are a roll of the dice. Teams like the Nationals, Braves, Reds, and Cardinals look better on paper (and were during the regular season statistically). Even the Dodgers if it wasn't for the injuries especially to Kershaw and Kemp would have finished ahead and Giants were close to not even making the playoffs.

Yes, they won, congrats...but I don't think it makes them automatically the undisputed #1 team in baseball. They're not any more scary to face than the teams mentioned above, plus AL teams like the Rangers, A's, Angels, Tigers, Yankees, Baltimore, and even Toronto.

There's lots of good teams in baseball. I don't think people realize that not too much separates the #3 through #17 teams in the major leagues. A lot of it depends on injuries, timing, luck, and playing in the right division.

So yea, it's just a video game. The players ratings total them to 17th...big whoop. Video games don't capture hot streaks and chemistry the same way.

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