I don’t think anyone can deny it anymore, this New York
Yankees team is for real. Many wondered when the team would fold or the “new”
would wear off with all these young guys and prospects they keep throwing out
there and despite all the tales of horror the Bronx Bombers keep winning. The
Yankees were on a seven-game winning streak entering Sunday before having that
streak snapped ending another very impressive week of baseball in the Bronx. Did
the USA Today take notice and how far did they rise in this week’s standings?
Keep reading…
The bias against this Yankees team continues. Did the
Yankees move a spot this week after climbing within a game or less of the Wild
Card this week? Nope. They stayed at #14. You can go 6-1 in a week and not
climb a spot? Whatever. To round out the rest of the American League East, you
know that division the Yankees can still win and have beat up on this week, you
have the Boston Red Sox 5th overall, the Toronto Blue Jays 7th,
the Baltimore Orioles 8th and the Tampa Ray Rays 24th
overall.
The biggest rise of the week went to another New York team
but not the Yankees, no it went to the Mets who rose three spots to the #10
position. The Mets also went 6-1 this week so what’s good for one should be
good for the other, right? Especially when three of those six Yankees wins came
at the expense of the team leading their division at the time. The biggest fall
of the week went to the Toronto Blue Jays, the team who got swept by the
Yankees and swept out of first place for the time being, who fell two spots to
the #7 spot.
The Top Five teams according to the rankings are the Chicago
Cubs, the Washington Nationals, the Texas Rangers, the Cleveland Indians and
the Boston Red Sox. Meanwhile the five worst teams in the rankings are the #26
Cincinnati Reds, the #27 San Diego Padres, the #28 Arizona Diamondbacks, the
#29 Atlanta Braves and the #30 Minnesota Twins. To see where your team fell if
it’s not listed here head over to the USA Today and check out their weekly MLB
power rankings for yourself.
Three weeks. That’s all that’s left to decide the regular
season in Major League Baseball for 2016. Three weeks. I’m not sure I would
even call it a marathon or a sprint at this point, it’s a flat out run. Need a
win. Get a win. Not that any of them will matter here on these rankings apparently.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)