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MLB Team Power Rankings Update: Nationals Take Over at the Top

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Teams Ranked 10th to 1st

This group still has a ton of the usual suspects, but the seventh, eighth and ninth spots are all occupied by teams with less than a 10.0% chance of making the playoffs at the moment. How long can they hold on?

Rank Team nERD Record Playoff Odds Change
10 Tampa Bay Rays 0.48 13-14 16.5% +1
9 Cincinnati Reds 0.51 12-13 4.2% -2
8 Minnesota Twins 0.52 12-11 8.8% +1
7 Oakland Athletics 0.55 11-14 9.3% -3
6 Cleveland Indians 0.57 14-11 85.8% +2
5 Los Angeles Dodgers 0.87 14-13 76.4% +1
4 Arizona Diamondbacks 0.91 16-11 41.6% +6
3 Houston Astros 1.22 17-9 90.8% -1
2 New York Yankees 1.76 15-9 54.2% -1
1 Washington Nationals 1.95 17-8 93.5% +1


Biggest Rise: Arizona Diamondbacks

This is the kind of performance the Arizona Diamondbacks were hoping to have last year, but better late than never, right?

Shelby Miller needing Tommy John surgery creates a void in the rotation that needs to be filled, but this lineup is just humming along. Their team wRC+ over the last seven days is 106, which is middle of the pack, but Paul Goldschmidt (.568), Brandon Drury (.509), A.J. Pollock (.451) and Chris Owings (.421) all posted a wOBA over. 400 during that time.

Biggest Drop: Oakland Athletics

The Oakland Athletics are continuing to hang on by a thread, but if they repeat this past week's performance, they may end up on the outside looking in the next time we check around the league. They went just 1-5 in their past 6 games and watched their playoff odds drop from 17.3% to their current mark of 9.3%.

Their starting rotation led the majors with a 1.4 fWAR over the last seven days, but the offense couldn't help support them -- their team wRC+ of 70 was tied for second worst with the Miami Marlins.