It’s Tuesday and much like every Tuesday this season we have
been bringing to you the weekly Major League Baseball power rankings brought to
you by the USA Today. The Yankees were almost the biggest fallers in last
week’s rankings as the team fell all the way down to the #14 position while the
St. Louis Cardinals lost their strangle hold on the top spot. What will change
this week you may be asking? A whole lot, keep reading.
Like always we start with the biggest rise of the week and
that rise went to the Cleveland Indians who rose to the #17 spot this week up
four spots from last week. The biggest riser moving up just four spots shows
you how much the rankings are beginning to mean as we are no longer seeing
teams moving up eight spots or more in a single week. For the biggest faller
this week we turn to the Boston Red Sox who fell eight spots all the way to the
#24 spot in the rankings. The 24th spot is the worst ranking the
team has had this season down from their highest ranking, the #4 spot. The
Yankees moved up one spot this week to the #13 spot after struggling with the
Oakland Athletics after sweeping the Kansas City Royals.
To finish out the American league East division you have the
Tampa Bay Rays ranked #14, the Baltimore Orioles ranked #16 and the Toronto
Blue Jays ranked at #20. The five worst teams in order according to the
rankings are the Colorado Rockies, the Oakland Athletics, the Miami Marlins,
the Philadelphia Phillies and the Milwaukee Brewers while the five top spots
belong to the St. Louis Cardinals, the Kansas City Royals, the Los Angeles
Dodgers, the Houston Astros and the San Francisco Giants.
We’re starting to see more consistency in these rankings,
less rising and more falling which goes to show you that the sample size is
real right now. Barring trades, returns from injuries and losses from injuries
what you see now is what you may see all season long from your favorite MLB
team.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)