I’ve watched the 2022 Major League Baseball season pass its midway point, and noticed a familiar pair of teams emerging as likely World Series contenders.

In the American League, the New York Yankees have been baseball’s best team through the first half. With a lineup full of sluggers like Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, the Yankees have been consistently outscoring opponents on their way to the league’s best record. Over in the National League, a star-studded roster with four different MVP award winners has the Los Angeles Dodgers poised to make a run at their fourth NL pennant and second championship since 2017.

NY and LA Both Have Histories of Winning

While other rivals have also delivered strong campaigns this year, the Yankees (watch on YES Network) and Dodgers (watch on Spectrum SportsNet LA) appear to be the favorites to face off for the 2022 World Series. And looking at MLB history, it is unsurprising to see why.

While the dodgers have a .606 win % over the past 10 seasons, the Yankees are the winningest all-time — Source: baseball-reference.com

Over the last ten seasons, the Dodgers and Yankees rank first and second in the MLB in win percentage at .606 and .569, respectively. The Dodgers have earned eight division titles and nine playoff appearances over that span, while the Yankees have had six playoff appearances since 2013. With big-market appeal and resources, the two franchises have gathered elite collections of talent and positioned them as the class of the league in recent years.

But the two teams have been among the MLB’s top franchises for much longer than that. The Yankees have maintained the league’s highest all-time winning percentage at .570 and coupled that with postseason success, winning 27 championships–more than twice as many as any other franchise. The Dodgers rank third all-time in winning percentage at .530.

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Historically, the Yankees are nearly twice as many games above.500 as teh next best team in baseball — Source: baseball-reference.com

The Yanks Have a Solid #1 All-Time

While the Dodgers’ recent run has been one of the more impressive stretches of winning for any franchise in league history, no franchise will challenge the Yankees’ historic dominance anytime soon. At 2,602 games above .500, the Bronx Bombers could lose every game in a 162-game season for the next 16 years and still have a winning record all-time. The Yankees are more than 1,000 games further above .500 than the team with the next-highest win percentage, the San Francisco Giants.

With the Yankees standing head and shoulders above the rest of the MLB, it is unsurprising that New York tops the list of winningest baseball cities. But other cities have also enjoyed generations of baseball success, with 12 of the MLB’s 30 franchises boasting all-time winning records.

Which Cities Have the Teams With the Most Wins?

Researchers at HotDog.com ranked U.S. and Canadian cities according to the all-time winning percentage of each location’s active professional baseball franchises. In the event that a city is home to more than one team, each team’s all-time statistics were ranked separately.

All professional baseball seasons since the founding of the National League in 1876 through July 4th, 2022 were considered. In the event of a tie, the location with the franchise with more total wins was ranked higher. The data was sourced from baseball-reference.com.

Here are the top ten cities with the most baseball victories.

Top 10 Cities With the Most Baseball Victories

15. Toronto, ON

All-time winning percentage: 0.497
Team: Toronto Blue Jays
Total games played: 7,147
Total wins: 3,550
Total losses: 3,594
Total ties: 3
Games >.500: -44

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14. Anaheim, CA

All-time winning percentage: 0.498
Team: Los Angeles Angels
Total games played: 9,734
Total wins: 4,849
Total losses: 4,882
Total ties: 3
Games >.500: -33

13. Houston, TX

All-time winning percentage: 0.499
Team: Houston Astros
Total games played: 9,573
Total wins: 4,777
Total losses: 4,791
Total ties: 5
Games >.500: -14

12. Pittsburgh, PA

All-time winning percentage: 0.501
Team: Pittsburgh Pirates
Total games played: 21,391
Total wins: 10,657
Total losses: 10,594
Total ties: 140
Games >.500: +63

11. Atlanta, GA

All-time winning percentage: 0.502
Team: Atlanta Braves
Total games played: 21,812
Total wins: 10,867
Total losses: 10,791
Total ties: 154
Games >.500: +76

10. Chicago, IL

All-time winning percentage: 0.503
Team: Chicago White Sox
Total games played: 18,901
Total wins: 9,449
Total losses: 9,349
Total ties: 103
Games >.500: +100

9. Detroit, MI

All-time winning percentage: 0.503
Team: Detroit Tigers
Total games played: 18,929
Total wins: 9,478
Total losses: 9,358
Total ties: 93
Games >.500: +120

8. Cincinnati, OH

All-time winning percentage: 0.504
Team: Cincinnati Reds
Total games played: 21,432
Total wins: 10,740
Total losses: 10,553
Total ties: 139
Games >.500: +187

7. Cleveland, OH

All-time winning percentage: 0.512
Team: Cleveland Guardians
Total games played: 18,905
Total wins: 9,632
Total losses: 9,182
Total ties: 91
Games >.500: +450

6. Chicago, IL

All-time winning percentage: 0.513
Team: Chicago Cubs
Total games played: 21,849
Total wins: 11,119
Total losses: 10,569
Total ties: 161
Games >.500: +550

5. Boston, MA

All-time winning percentage: 0.519
Team: Boston Red Sox
Total games played: 18,895
Total wins: 9,763
Total losses: 9,049
Total ties: 83
Games >.500: +714

4. St Louis, MO

All-time winning percentage: 0.521
Team: St Louis Cardinals
Total games played: 21,435
Total wins: 11,082
Total losses: 10,201
Total ties: 152
Games >.500: +881

3. Los Angeles, CA

All-time winning percentage: 0.530
Team: Los Angeles Dodgers
Total games played: 21,232
Total wins: 11,173
Total losses: 9,920
Total ties: 139
Games >.500: +1,253

2. San Francisco, CA

All-time winning percentage: 0.536
Team: San Francisco Giants
Total games played: 21,315
Total wins: 11,341
Total losses: 9,811
Total ties: 163
Games >.500: +1,530

1. New York, NY

All-time winning percentage: 0.570
Team: New York Yankees
Total games played: 18,608
Total wins: 10,561
Total losses: 7,959
Total ties: 88
Games >.500: +2,602

Methodology & Detailed Findings

The data was sourced from baseball-reference.com.

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