Tigers maintain power ranking slots
posted in Power rankings |ESPN kept the Tigers at number two, with this explicable reasoning:
No. 1 could have gone to the White Sox, Tigers or Red Sox, all deserving candidates. Yet despite the Tigers having baseball’s best record and the Red Sox riding a 13-game winning streak, we’re sticking with the White Sox, who’ve done nothing to warrant a sudden drop.
Yeah, they’ve only lost two games this week, including one to AAA PITTSBURGH! They’re still a top 3 team but power rankings measure what’s going on at the time, and losing to Pittsburgh and Houston in a week? I’d rather see Boston at No. 1 right about now.
On to the Tigers:
Detroit has two starters (Kenny Rogers and Justin Verlander) at the top of the AL wins list.
Dayn Perry of Fox Sports kept the Tigers at No. 1, writing:
The Tigers are now on pace for a franchise-record 111 wins, and their strength of schedule to date ranks a respectable 10th in all of baseball. They’re riding a 16-of-18 hot streak, and up next is Jim Leyland�s old squad, the foundering Pirates. Overall, think of it this way: the Tigers can go 41-42 over their final 83 games and still win 95 on the year. Since the inception of the Wild Card, every AL team winning at least 95 games in a season has made the playoffs.
Boston was No. 2 and Chicago No. 3.
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