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MLB Power Rankings After Trade Deadline

The push for October starts now.

Robert Alexander Marcello

Aug 08, 2016

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The MLB trade deadline is now over and the run to October begins. Teams have improved with some trades made and other teams are starting to focus on the next season. Her are my top 10 MLB power rankings.

10. Boston Red Sox

The Red Sox have recently been sliding down the standings. With a bad couple of loses the Red Sox find themselves on the edge of the second wild card spot. The pitching lately has been better but the offense recently has struggled.

9. Detroit Tigers

The Tigers find themselves in a race for the AL Wildcard. The Tigers have been on fire lately with great offense and good pitching. Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez have carried the way for Detroit.

8. Baltimore Orioles

Baltimore is leading the AL east right now. The pitching for the Orioles has been struggling lately but with the offense they have it offset.

7. LA Dodgers

The Dodgers made a big trade at the MLB trade deadline. They added pitcher Rich Hill and Josh Reddick and this helps them big time with the needs they needed. Kershaw is out still and the Dodgers needed pitching help and Hill can fill that role.

6. Toronto Blue Jays

The Blue Jays have made a comeback and find themselves right back in the race. They had a difficult start to the year and now they are one of the hottest teams in baseball.

5. Texas Rangers

The Rangers are in first place in the AL West. The Rangers also made trades at the deadline. They added Johnathan Lucroy and Carlos Beltran to their lineup. The Rangers made themselves even better.

4. San Francisco Giants

The Giants have recently ben playing well. At the start of the second half of the season the Giants went of a losing streak that ended up letting Dodgers right back in the playoff picture. San Francisco can compete with the Cubs in the playoffs but the pitching needs to be spot on if so.

3. Cleveland Indians

The Indians made a trade at the deadline to get Andrew Miller from the Yankees. This makes their bullpen one of the best and come October can shut down an opposing lineup. Miller is a shutdown pitcher in the ninth and can make the difference come the end of the year.

2. Washington Nationals

The Nationals have had a great season so far. Both the pitching and offense had been great and they look like there going to run away with the NL East.

1. Chicago Cubs

The team of destiny, the Chicago Cubs have made people believe they can win it all. Adding Aroldis Chapman sold me on who was the No. 1 team in the power rankings.

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The push for October starts now.

10. Boston Red Sox

9. Detroit Tigers

8. Baltimore Orioles

7. LA Dodgers

6. Toronto Blue Jays

5. Texas Rangers

4. San Francisco Giants

3. Cleveland Indians

2. Washington Nationals

1. Chicago Cubs

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1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

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1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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