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MLB Power Rankings: Week 26
The race for the top spot in the Rankings couldn't be any tighter with one week left in the regular season. Cleveland's run of tremendous play in the second half has them holding on to No. 1 for now, but the Angels, Red Sox and Yankees could all have something to say about that. The 26th edition of AOL's MLB Power Rankings are out, brought to you, the people, by me, your humble editor/producer. I'll be putting these rankings out usually every Monday/Tuesday during the regular season, and each week I'll explain a little bit of my rationale and give the people a chance to basically tell me why I'm wrong. Please be gentle. If you make a good argument, I'm more than willing to address it during the later on in the week.
Surprises and General Oddities
- Barring an epic collapse by one of the top four teams, that will be your top four at the end of next week in some order.
- Where did the Rockies come from? Their weekend sweep of the Padres in San Diego was quite impressive.
- Tough luck for Atlanta. The one thing the Braves couldn't remedy at the deadline was their starting pitching. They've played very well lately, going 6-1 in the past week, but they aren't going to have nearly enough steam to catch the wild-card leaders.
- What about the race for last? The Pirates seemed like a lock to not finish 30th, but they went 0-7 this week and now will need a big finish to stay out of the bottom spot.
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The sox should be #1. JD Drew has been great all spring and dice-k looks to have a great year. the hole schilling left can be filled with their young talent. and if they have the lead going into the 7th you're done with okajima and papelbon. but expect less wins than last year because now the blue jays will be up there with the yankees and sox, and the rays should be over .500, the orioles are bad though
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The sox should be #1. JD Drew has been great all spring and dic-k looks to have a great year. the hole schilling left can be filled with their young talent. and if they have the lead going into the 7th you're done with okajima and papelbon. but expect less wins than last year because now the blue jays will be up there with the yankees and sox, and the rays should be over .500, the orioles are bad though
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Personally i think you did a horrible job on predicting the Phillies all year... Especially in Mid August when you said that it was a same the phillies are still in it because their just getting their hopes up...
Personally, it doesn't matter The Phillies would have gotten to the play offs even if the Mets did not crash... they would have been playing for the Wild card...
personally, i think you did not do so good this season with predicting the Phillies.... they are by far the Hottest team in baseball but you have some kind of Philly bias for some reason and never properly put them in the correct place... -
I would rather you under rank the Phillies. It has done them well. No one saw us coming including the Mets who must have believed in your ranking rather than focus on the Phillies who owns a 12-6 record against the Mets this season. The Phillies don't need an opinion ranking to tell them where they belong. They are #1 in the NL east and they did it on the field rather than by your opinion.
3/27/08 8:12 PM