Every week we take a look at the weekly changes in the Baseball Organizational Rankings that we here at AMSTS have created in an effort to quantify the quality of various team’s entire organization.

For those unfamiliar with the Baseball Organizational Rankings, they’re a simple metric that takes winning percentages and weights each tier of major and minor leagues by some AMSTS-defined defaults (but are also user-customizable to play around with different results!).

New this week, the Chicago Cubs have maintained the top spot in this week’s overall rankings, mostly on the back of the Major League and AAA affiliates both having lost only two games this week, which raised their overall rank one point, from 141.3 to 142.3. That one point made all the difference, as in second place, the Texas Rangers hopped up a spot this week, gaining 1.9 points, while the third place Cleveland Indians gained 2.3 points, to 141.1, meaning the top three teams are more or less neck and neck. The Seattle Mariners drop to fourth from second overall, losing 2.4 points.

Meanwhile in the farm rankings, the Indians continue their dominance of the top spot, down 0.7 points from last week, but still holding on to a 3.1 point lead. Second this week are the Mariners, who have hopped the New York Yankees, for the second and third spots respectively.

On the losing side of things, the Atlanta Braves hold on to the bottom spot, losing an additional 2.6 points this week. The Braves have an astonishing 14 point gap between themselves and the second worst organization (according to the computers). That team? The dropping-like-a-rock Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, who lost 3.8 points and 4 spots this week, sitting at 104.8. Above them sit the Minnesota Twins, and Cincinnati Reds maintain the third and fourth worst spots in the overall rankings, mostly tied directly to their MLB performance, though both trending positive this week. In the farm rankings, the Baltimore Orioles continue to hold the worst spot, followed by the Kansas City Royals, who dropped an astonishing 13 spots in the Organizational Rankings, while dropping 6 in the farm rankings. It’s been a rough week for Royals fans.

Finally, as always, your miscellaneous facts:

Biggest winner (organizational): Baltimore, up 6 spots this week to 15th overall.

Biggest winner (farm): Tampa Bay, up 6 spots this week to 19th overall.

Biggest loser (organizational): Kansas City, down 13 spots to 25th overall.

Biggest loser (farm): Kansas City, down 6 spots to 29th overall.

Here are your full week changes for both the full organizational rankings and the farm-only rankings which exclude the MLB affiliates. Of course you can always play around with the Baseball Organizational Rankings yourself if you want to splice the data some more.

Full organization rankings (including MLB)

Position MLB Team Total Rank Last Week Total Rank Difference Last Week Position 1 Chi Cubs 142.3 141.3 1 0 2 Texas 141.3 139.4 1.9 1 3 Cleveland 141.1 138.8 2.3 1 4 Seattle 137.1 139.5 -2.4 -2 5 Washington 133.4 138.1 -4.7 0 6 NY Yankees 131.8 130 1.8 1 7 Pittsburgh 128.8 132.3 -3.5 -1 8 LA Dodgers 127.7 125.6 2.1 2 9 Philadelphia 127.6 126.7 0.9 0 10 Boston 126.7 127.6 -0.9 -2 11 NY Mets 126.2 124.6 1.6 0 12 San Francisco 121.8 121.2 0.6 2 13 Toronto 121 123 -2 0 14 St. Louis 120.4 121.1 -0.7 1 15 Baltimore 120 114.8 5.2 6 16 Houston 117.8 115.7 2.1 3 17 Miami 117.7 117.3 0.4 0 18 Detroit 116.3 115.3 1 2 19 Arizona 115.1 113.3 1.8 4 20 Oakland 114.8 120.6 -5.8 -4 21 Chi White Sox 114.1 117.1 -3 -3 22 Tampa Bay 113.9 106.6 7.3 5 23 Milwaukee 113.4 112.2 1.2 1 24 Colorado 113.1 113.5 -0.4 -2 25 Kansas City 112 123.5 -11.5 -13 26 San Diego 111.6 107.9 3.7 0 27 Cincinnati 106.4 105 1.4 1 28 Minnesota 106.2 102.1 4.1 1 29 LA Angels 104.8 108.6 -3.8 -4 30 Atlanta 90.8 93.4 -2.6 0

Farm rankings (excluding MLB)