MLB Power Rankings: October baseball is upon us
Late September brings the end of another baseball season for most, some sadly, some mercifully. Since we’re melancholy sorts, we got to thinking about what we’d miss from each team in 2015:
The rankings (records through Wednesday’s games):
1. St. Louis Cardinals (100-59; Previous: 1) – That time when the Cardinals hired Julian Assange to lead their technical support team. (He’s the WikiLeaks guy.)
2. Pittsburgh Pirates (96-63; Previous: 2) – The Cole Train whistles. Totally.
3. Toronto Blue Jays (92-66; Previous: 4) – “The Donaldson.”
4. Chicago Cubs (93-65; Previous: 5) – AC/DC concerts.
5. Kansas City Royals (91-67; Previous: 6) – The morning-after lineup.
6. New York Mets (89-69; Previous: 7) – Scott Boras.
7. Los Angeles Dodgers (88-70; Previous: 3) – Dunno. They were never on TV. So maybe we’ll miss missing Vin Scully, if that makes sense.
8. Texas Rangers (86-72; Previous: 9) – Checking details of the return policy on Josh Hamilton. Angels get store credit.
9. New York Yankees (86-72; Previous: 8) – A-Rod’s comeback. Unless he’s just setting us up for another one. Then, not so much.
10. Houston Astros (84-75; Previous: 10) – Birthday passwords. Dog-name passwords. Pa55word passwords. GoStros15 passwords.
11. Los Angeles Angels (83-75; Previous: 15) – Disposable left fielders.
12. San Francisco Giants (83-75; Previous: 11) – Odd-year inevitability.
13. Minnesota Twins (82-76; Previous: 12) – That portrait of Torii Hunter in the attic.
14. Cleveland Indians (78-79; Previous: 13) – Rogue fireworks.
15. Washington Nationals (80-78; Previous: 14) – “Where’s my ring?”
16. Boston Red Sox (78-80; Previous: 18) – Hanley in left field, a proud tradition.
17. Baltimore Orioles (77-81; Previous: 16) – Actually, kind of looking forward to next 40-homer guy who leaves.
18. Arizona Diamondbacks (77-81; Previous: 21) – Oliver Perez’s new delivery – part mechanics, part seizure.
19. Tampa Bay Rays (77-81; Previous: 17) – First-half relevance, second-half tacos.
20. San Diego Padres (73-85; Previous: 22) – Those couple weeks in April when the Padres were going to be so exciting. Good times.
21. Seattle Mariners (75-84; Previous: 20) – Welcome back, Franklin Gutierrez!
22. Chicago White Sox (74-84; Previous: 19) – April showers, season sours.
23. Detroit Tigers (73-85; Previous: 23) – Clubbies scrubbing fire retardant from bullpen uniforms.
24. Miami Marlins (69-89; Previous: 27) – Early straw-drawing ceremony to determine new manager.
25. Milwaukee Brewers (68-90; Previous: 25) – The Brewers were really tough on the Phillies, you know.
26. Colorado Rockies (66-92; Previous: 28) – The desperate search for pitching. We’ll miss it next year, too. And the year after. The year after …
27. Oakland Athletics (66-93; Previous: 24) – The Big 3 ride again, on Rascals.
28. Cincinnati Reds (63-95; Previous: 26) – The very nice participation ribbon.
29. Atlanta Braves (64-94; Previous: 29) – Shelby Miller’s 33 courageous attempts to go one on nine.
30. Philadelphia Phillies (61-97; Previous: 30) – Yeah, drawing a blank here.
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