Power Rankings: April 14-28

Power Rankings: April 14-28

            Another 2 weeks have passed and its time for this weeks Power Rankings.  As a reminder these are my opinions based on stats and my predictions.  So lets get started.

1)   Milwaukee Brewers

2)   Atlanta Braves

3)   Oakland A’s

4)   St. Louis Cardinals

5)   Detroit Tigers

6)   Los Angeles Dodgers

7)   New York Yankees

8)   Texas Rangers

9)   Anaheim Angels

10)         Toronto Blue Jays

It’s such a tough call between Atlanta and Milwaukee now but I gave the edge to the Brewers due to the fact that the offense was a bit better but with the loss of Braun that could be a big factor moving forward.  St. Louis seems to be the odd man out in this list but I just can’t bring myself to take them off the list just yet, the pitching saves them but that offense needs to step it up.  Texas really stepped it up big time both offensively and pitching.  Next week they play like this and they will be higher on this list.  Anaheim is here by virtue that they offense was so good and the bullpen is just so not good, if they can pick it up it could be very interesting.  And last but not least is the Blue Jays who weren’t the most dominate of the list but they also did very well and have slowly crept into my eyes as a true contender for their division.  Though sadly it’s not due to talent as much as the rest of the league is falling to their level but when their injured guys come back they could be a serious threat.

Bottom 5

            26) Houston Astros

            27) New York Mets

            28) Philadelphia Phillies

            29) Chicago Cubs

            30) Arizona Diamondbacks

Houston actually did decent this week, well enough not to be the second to last at least.  New York and Philadelphia are just here at this point but at least both are doing far better than I expected and could be off the list by the next rankings.  Cubs, I don’t think I really need to explain.  Oh the Diamondbacks what can be said?  Well enough to make a blog post about this and one I have written up.  But in short offense is struggling to score the runs while the pitching and defense struggle to keep the opponents from scoring.