Power
Rankings
Since
this is an odd week I’m just going to look at the time after the All Star break
till the point I’m at for stat collection. Next Power Rankings will be back to the normal schedule.
1)
St. Louis Cardinals
2)
Boston Red Sox
3)
Atlanta Braves
4)
Tampa Bay Rays
5)
Oakland Athletics
6)
Los Angeles Dodgers
7)
Detroit Tigers
8)
Cincinnati Reds
9)
Pittsburg Pirates
10)
Baltimore Orioles
Decided to try a new format this
week since I’m starting to get repetitive. As I’ve stated before there’s only so many times I can say,
“this team is good”. Card’s still
hold the top spot for me and with a RISP BA of .351 it’s hard to argue
why. Tampa Bay has been on a tear
and could very well take over the top of the hill in the East. Wil Myers and David Price have turned
this team around and this could be a dogfight to the end. While the A’s have had a little rough
patch hitting in the last 2 weeks the pitching has been solid and I don’t see
that changing at this time. The
Dodgers just wow. This is a turn
around and how I expected the team to play, I stand behind calling them the
biggest disappointment of the first half but they look poised to really give
the Cards a challenge. Puig may be
getting the talk but Hanley Ramirez has been this teams savior and it’s sad to
see him not get the credit he deserves.
Pirates are still in this and have just as much of a chance to take the
division as the Reds do. Orioles
are the dark horse here and their chances of making it in keep getting slimmer
but they’re still in the fight.
Bottom
5
26)
New York Mets
27)
Milwaukee Brewers
28)
Chicago White Sox
29)
Miami Marlins
30)
Houston Astros
I don’t believe there are many
surprises down here, the lose of Ryan Braun has obviously hurt the Brewers
offense but there wasn’t much there in the first place. Mets and ChiSox have just been bad and
that’s not likely to change by the end of the season especially since the Sox
are in sell mode already trading All Star Jesse Crain to the Tampa Bay
Rays. Miami and Houston are still
bad but on the bright side they do have good futures in store for them. Astros traded their closer to the
Tigers for the 4th best prospect in the system; upon the trade he
became the Astros 16th best in the system. Actually says a lot about the teams system but that’s for
another time.