Teams are starting to sneak up on the Chicago Cubs for the best overall record in the MLB as they begin this week with a 29-13 record, losing their past two games entering Monday’s slate of games.
Will the Cubs keep their lead over the rest of the MLB, or is it the turn of one of the 10 teams who enter this week with at least 25 wins? From the group, four teams (including the Cubs) have 27 or more wins: the San Francisco Giants (27-19), the Washington Nationals (27-17) and the Boston Red Sox (27-17).
At the bottom of the majors, the Minnesota Twins now have the worst winning percentage and lowest number of wins this season with an 11-32 overall record, losing seven of their past 10 games, while the Atlanta Braves are right with the Twins with a 12-31 record. The Cincinnati Reds are the third team in the majors with 15 or fewer wins with an overall record of 15-29, and we’ll talk more about them and their bullpen woes later in these MLB Power Rankings.
With that said, there is a huge difference from the best and the worst teams in the majors, and with the way the season has gone one-fourth of the way thus far, anything can and will occur, it seems, with the 30 MLB franchises. At least at the top of the standings in each division, the largest deficit from first to second is just six games, so it will be interesting to see just how much closer teams can get to overtake the top spot on a weekly basis.
Here are this week’s rankings.
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