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Here are the first Power Rankings of 2023
While it’s still the offseason, the New Year provides a perfect mile-marker for baseball fans. It’s almost the halfway point between the World Series ending, and Spring Training games beginning. At MLB.com, we produce two way-too-early Power Rankings during the offseason. The first one lands before the confetti has even → Read More
Top 5 hold strong in latest Power Rankings
The Yankees have had their struggles recently (to put it mildly), but they helped themselves over the weekend when they swatted away the team that is likely their biggest threat in the AL East division. The Yankees’ second-half spiral allowed the Rays, and to a lesser extent, the Blue Jays, → Read More
Power Rankings: Surging clubs shake up Top 5
As recently as a month ago, it looked as if no team would be able to surpass the Yankees in the race for the best record in the American League. That has changed. The Astros, who have won four in a row and are 7-3 in their past 10, own → Read More
Power Rankings: Did the Deadline shake up the hierarchy?
Now that the Trade Deadline \-\- one of the wackiest, zaniest, action-packed Deadlines we’ve seen in recent times -- is behind us, it’s time to take a look at where teams landed in our first Power Rankings of August. There wasn’t a ton of movement from our last pre-Deadline rankings, → Read More
New No. 2 in Power Rankings heading into second half
The All-Star Game took place a week later than usual, which means that even with the slight extension of the season due to the lockout, most teams are already well past the 90-game mark. Some storylines relevant at this point come as no surprise -- the Yankees and Astros are → Read More
Power Rankings: Yanks, Astros pacing field
If the postseason began today, four of five teams from the American League East would be in. Let’s assume for now that the Yankees run away with the division, which looks likely, given their 13-game lead over the second-place Red Sox. That leaves Boston, Toronto and Tampa Bay as the → Read More
Power Rankings: Shakeup in the Top 5
The Astros and Yankees’ four-game series over the weekend provided great theater, and gave us what might very well be a preview of more drama to come in October. The series had everything -- two walk-off hits by Aaron Judge, an Astros combined no-hitter (the second time they’ve done this → Read More
Power Rankings: NY, SoCal clubs hold strong
Is it too early to start talking about the Wild Card race? Probably, but let’s do it anyway. In total -- American League and National League combined -- 13 teams are either in the top three in their respective races, or within five games of the third spot. Some you’re → Read More
Here are the Power Rankings through May
Memorial Day weekend has always been loosely considered a significant point on the baseball calendar. By this time, teams that are likely to be relevant in their division races in September are starting to separate themselves from the pack, while you may see others who played a little over their → Read More
The first Power Rankings of the regular season
As is the case at this point of the season every year, our Power Rankings tally was all over the place among our group of voters. It’s way too early to glean much from less than two weeks of play; win-loss records, more often than not, indicate very little at → Read More
Opening Day Power Rankings: Who’s No. 1?
The regular season is almost here, which means it’s time for that time-honored, unscientific, occasionally polarizing rite of passage we call Opening Day Power Rankings. On paper, ranking the teams is easy. It also invites the very real possibility that we’ve both overestimated and underestimated more than half the teams → Read More
Final Rankings of '21 offer sneak peek at '22
The offseason is only a week old, but in our fast-paced world, it’s never too early to start looking ahead to what’s next. Only one team ends a baseball season at the top of the heap, which means 29 other teams, absent parades and pep rallies, have already started looking → Read More
Power Rankings: Who's top among final four?
If baseball’s postseason was like the NCAA college basketball tournament, it’s highly likely there would not have been a single perfect bracket left in contests by the time the final four was set. A couple of teams that have advanced to their respective League Championship Series were expected to be → Read More
Power Rankings: How playoff teams stack up
Are we having fun yet? After an exhilarating regular season that took all 162 games before the postseason field could be set, we’re on to October -- the real October, when the stakes are high, nerves are shot and every pitch of every inning matters. With that, we present our → Read More
Power Rankings: Top 5 gets new member
With four weeks remaining on the schedule, there are still a few key races to keep an eye on. While leads in the AL East (Rays), AL Central (White Sox) and NL Central (Brewers) are all but wrapped up, things are still unsettled in the NL East, where the Phillies → Read More
Power Rankings: All eyes on Wild Card races
The Wild Card races are growing increasingly more interesting, even in the National League, where the top spot is all but sewn up by the team who doesn’t win the National League West. The Dodgers are in first place in the NL Wild Card race by 9 1/2 games, so → Read More
All the big trades reorder Power Rankings
There’s no perfect time to start watching Wild Card races in earnest, but the end of the Trade Deadline always seems to be a good marker. In a way, it serves as an unofficial signal that we’re deep into the season, and it’s OK to examine those standings with a → Read More
Power Rankings: Watch the AL Wild Card
The American League Wild Card race is packed with teams that most of us have come to expect to be postseason contenders over the years. But there are also a couple of newcomers that have jumped into the mix, including two from the AL West division: the Mariners and Angels. → Read More
Power Rankings: New No. 1 after first half
We use the term “first half” loosely, because, obviously, all 30 teams passed the 81-game mark more than a week ago. But the All-Star break -- and the days immediately following, before play ramps up again -- provide the perfect time to gauge where teams are and what they have → Read More
Power Rankings: Who's on top at midpoint?
Typically, the midway point of the season is also around the time when teams mostly hold steady in our Power Rankings. There’s usually not a ton of dramatic jumps or drops, a sign a lot of clubs are settling into whatever they’re going to be this season, even those off → Read More