Well, the good folks over at the World-Wide Leader have graced the Internets with the first in-season ranking of all 30 MLB teams.
Let's look at some of the biggest changes after Week 1; your thoughts and opinions are welcome of course.
Let's cut right to the chase ... the AL East has four of the top nine teams ranked, including your Blue Jays at a hale and hearty #8 ...
The Yankees -- your pre-season #1 -- are now #2, behind only the Phillies, who started the year at #3. The Red Sox, who started the year at #2 are now one spot ahead of the hometown heroes at #7, while the Tampa Bay Rays are one spot behind the Jays at #9. The Yanks, Bosox and Rays started the year at 1-3-4, so even at 2-7-9 this week, they've fallen quite a ways!
And the largest improvement from the pre-season through Week #1? That'd be your Blue Jays, jumping all the way from #25 into that eighth slot.
The biggest drops? That takes us to the left coast, where the L.A. Dodgers plummeted from #10 to #19, which is almost as far as the fall of their neighbors, the Los Angeles-ish Anaheim Angels of California, who cratered to #20 all the way from #8.
The Pirates have escaped the cellar, moving from #30 up to #24, while the new basement dwellers, and this shouldn't come as a surprise if you've been paying attention, is MLB's sole remaining winless club, the Astros.
Eleven teams are within two spots (either direction) of where they began, while three -- Texas at #12, Cincinnati at #18 and Cleveland at #26 -- are exactly where they started. I was born in Ohio and live in North Texas, so there's something to be said here about consistency, only I have no idea what it is that needs to be said.
After all that ... take a look at the list yourself. See anything glaringly wrong or amiss? And how 'bout them Jays?
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