The New York Yankees can trade away any amount of talent
that they want before any trading deadline they want but as long as they are
replacing this talent with players like Adam Warren, Aaron Judge and Tyler
Austin they can keep the good times rolling. By good times rolling I mean
winning and that has been all the Yankees have known to do here lately yet you
couldn’t tell it by checking out the weekly power rankings provided by the USA
Today.
The USA Today has remained stagnant with the Yankees only
seemingly waiting on them to fail so they can drop them down, typical ESPN bias
if you ask me but that’s only if you ask me, but this week the team forced the
hands of the crew over there who actually had the Yankees climb a spot from the
18th position to the 17th position. That will do for now
I guess. Meanwhile the rest of the American League East is doing well in these
rankings with the Toronto Blue Jays coming in 5th, the Baltimore
Orioles coming in seventh while being the biggest fall of the week dropping
from the #4 position, the Red Sox were 9th overall and the Tampa Bay
Rays brought up the rear at the 26th position overall.
The Top Five teams in the league according to the rankings
are the Chicago Cubs, the Washington Nationals, the Cleveland Indians, the
Texas Rangers and the Toronto Blue Jays while the five worst teams according to
those same rankings are the #26 Tampa Bay Rays, the #27 Cincinnati Reds, the
#28 Minnesota Twins, the #29 Arizona Diamondbacks and the #30 Atlanta Braves.
The biggest risers aren’t rising as much as they had been in
previous rankings and the biggest falls haven’t fallen all that far from grace
lately as we see a true sample size start to hit the league. Teams will have
streaky weeks and months, both good and bad, but these rankings are pretty much
what they say they are. The teams in the top half of the rankings are either
destined for the postseason or just on the outside looking in while the teams
in the bottom half are either fighting for their playoff lives or are thinking
about next year and the year beyond already. If you want to see what chances
your team has check out these rankings, they can tell you a lot about what’s
about to happen here in the league. Enjoy.
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