2013 MLB Power Rankings – Week 24
With September comes the start of the new television season. This week’s rankings keep that in mind, as you’ll find each team with the show you’ll most likely find on their clubhouse TVs.
With September comes the start of the new television season. This week’s rankings keep that in mind, as you’ll find each team with the show you’ll most likely find on their clubhouse TVs.
With a win over the Texas Rangers on Monday night, the struggling franchise continued their miracle season and made a little history in the process. Rookie Gerrit Cole outdueled Rangers ace Yu Darvish for a 1-0 victory, giving Pittsburgh its 82nd win of the season and clinching a record over .500 for the first time since 1992.
The first half of the MLB season has come to an end and, with it, 10 teams have staked their claims to playoff spots. While that is a good position for those teams to hold, it is hardly a guarantee the landscape will look the same come October. Last year, four of the teams that …
There is a change atop our MLB power rankings. That may not be news in itself, though the Cardinals have spent nearly a month enjoying the perch. The news is the team replacing them. The Pittsburgh Pirates are the best team in baseball for the first time since about the days of General Custer. Unlike …
The 2013 MLB Power Rankings have just become interesting. With the recent surge of the Toronto Blue Jays, it’s safe to say that the American League East is now a five-team race. The AL East is now the only division in baseball in which every team has a win percentage above .500, and there are …
The bookends of our weekly power rankings remain unchanged as the St. Louis Cardinals continue to maintain their hold on the top spot and the Miami Marlins are, once again, looking up at everyone. The Cardinals are coming off a very marginal week, but they still have the most complete team and none of the …
Drew Storen invited the St. Louis Cardinals to dinner. On the menu: meatballs. When Adam Wainwright dug the Cardinals in a 6-0 hole after two innings, all seemed swell in the nation’s capitol. Before the game was over, Adam Wainwright already sealed the deal. The Nationals and Cardinals not were competing at any juncture during Wainwright’s …
The St. Louis Cardinals got to Nationals starter Jordan Zimmermann and they got to him early. In an MLB playoff season that was leaning in favor of the away team, the Cardinals did everything in their power to reverse that trend. Zimmermann just never looked right on Monday night—kind of like the ads for Cougartown …
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