Another good week of baseball in the Bronx and another week
that the USA Today really didn’t notice. What’s going on here? Is the
publication simply waiting for the youth movement to fail and for the Yankees
to fall? Do they not believe this team has a legit shot, and I am not saying I
think they do or they don’t by this statement before I get flamed in the
comments section and on Twitter, at making a run at the second Wild Card
playoff spot in the American League? What’s really going on here guys? Explain…
The Yankees finished the week still at the #17 slot in the
rankings, no movement whatsoever. To round out the rest of the American League
East the Toronto Blue Jays finished 5th while the Boston Red Sox
finished 6th overall in the rankings. The Baltimore Orioles finished
the week ninth while the Tampa Bay Rays finished the week in the #22 spot.
The Top Five teams according to the rankings are the #1
Chicago Cubs, the #2 Washington Nationals, the #3 Cleveland Indians, the #4
Texas Rangers and the #5 Toronto Blue Jays. The five worst teams according to these
same rankings are the #26 Oakland Athletics, the #27 Los Angeles Angels of
Anaheim, the #28 Minnesota Twins, the #29 Arizona Diamondbacks and the #30
Atlanta Braves. It’s always the Cubs at the top and always the Braves at the
bottom. Always.
The biggest rise of the week went to the Kansas City Royals
who rose Six spots to the #13 position, congratulations to them. The biggest
fall of the week went to the Milwaukee Brewers who fell three spots to the #25,
try to pick that up next week.
This is one of the final set of rankings before the August
31st waiver-wire trade deadline so check in next week and the week
after so we can diagnose just what went down, if anything, and how it may
affect the potential playoff pushes this season.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)