Starting rotation? Power at the plate? Every current MLB playoff contender's biggest strength

More than two months into the 2022 MLB season, there are a handful of teams that have clearly set themselves apart from the rest of the league — and some of them have done so by doing one thing really well.

The Yankees — who lead the majors with a 44-16 record, giving them a commanding lead in the best division in baseball — are a prime example.

Take this past weekend: They beat the Cubs in three games by a combined score of 25-8, including an 18-4 rout on Sunday. The previous day, it was an 8-0 win, and perhaps the quintessential example of their blazing start. Aaron Judge hit two home runs, Giancarlo Stanton hit a 119.8 mph laser straight out of a Bond movie for the hardest-hit ball in the majors this season and Gleyber Torres, Jose Trevino and Anthony Rizzo all added to the six-homer barrage.

«I'm a sucker for a good rally — doubles in the gaps, runners in scoring position,» Judge said after the game. «But six solo shots.… That's pretty nice, too.»

The Yankees have a league-leading 98 home runs, 14 more than the second-place Braves. They're also tied for the fewest home runs allowed in the majors at 48 with the Braves and Giants. That's a pretty good formula to success.

New York is rolling as we head toward the start of the summer, but so are a number of other squads. Let's dig into some numbers to see what each of the contending teams over .500 is doing best right now.

The Yankees have astonishingly doubled the home run output of their opponents, giving them a season pace of plus-130, which would break the single-season home run differential of plus-116 held by the 1927 Yankees (Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Tony Lazzeri ranked 1-2-3 in the American League in home runs that season). The 2019 Twins, who hit a record 307