Power
Rankings: 6/25-7/8
Another
2 weeks have passed and its time for this weeks power rankings and given what
some teams have done I think we’re in for quite a shake up. So no delays lets just jump into this
weeks power rankings and see what teams were at the top.
1. Oakland
Athletics
2. Los
Angeles Angels
3. Los
Angeles Dodgers
4. Baltimore
Orioles
5. Detroit
Tigers
6. Atlanta
Braves
7. Milwaukee
Brewers
8. Washington
Nationals
9. Toronto
Blue Jays
10. San
Francisco Giants
Baltimore
has been on fire being one of the better hitting teams and having the pitching
to match. The Orioles are healthy
and prime to take this division from under the slumping Blue Jays. The A’s made a splash trading for both
Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel both of who strengthen their claim as the best
in baseball. San Francisco and
Toronto have been in some pretty major funks recently and it doesn’t look like
smooth sailing for either team anymore.
Toronto needs pitching pure and simple and the trade that Oakland made
hurt Toronto just as much as the trade helped the A’s. The Giants lost their offense and it
seems like players like Mike Morse are regressing to the mean and averaging
out. It doesn’t mean they’re going
to struggle this bad moving forward but it’s going to be a boxing match all
year between them and the Dodgers.
Speaking of the Angles and Dodgers, both have really been putting it
together and are looking very solid.
The Angeles have been able to grab a few new relief pitchers and help strengthen
they bullpen while the Dodgers have just starting hitting and pitching like
this team should have been doing since day one. The Dodgers are in a prime spot to start grabbing some
pitchers before the trade deadline hits and get some more help in the rotation
and bullpen.
Bottom
5
26. Tampa Bay
Rays
27. Arizona
Diamondbacks
28. Colorado
Rockies
29. Chicago Cubs
30. Philadelphia
Phillies
The
Rays and Diamondbacks have turned their seasons around recently and look much
better than earlier. The Rays in
particular are starting to really come out of that half season long funk that
they seemed caught in. In a
division that is as close as the AL East they may not be out of it just
yet. The Diamondbacks have just
played some solid ball and have gotten some help from rookies really making a
name for themselves. The Rockies
have fallen far from where they were in the first 2 months of the season when
they were considered playoff contenders.
The Home/Road splits just caught up with them in the end and the team is
starting to look closer to what we expected from them rather than what we were
seeing a the beginning of the season.
The Phillies are just bad, pure and simple. The fact that I look at the Cubs as a better team is just
saying a lot about them and it’s a team that needs to just push the button and
blow the team up at this point.
The system is dry and the talent in the majors isn’t really
producing. Domonic Brown is their
starting LF and he was doing worse than Grady Sizmore who was dropped by the
Red Sox. Then promptly signed by
the Phillies for that matter.
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