Week 1 MLB Power Rankings

Fantasy Baseball Dugout is proud to have one of the six voting spots in Yardbarker’s Blogger Poll for MLB Power Rankings 2010. In addition to providing our insight on ranking each MLB team 1-30, we also monitor the AL West each week and drop a little insight on each team.

See below for our week 1 rankings. All the links below point to our team archive pages. Our analysis of each AL West team is also spread throughout the post. A couple things have changed since last week, but the Yanks and Phils remain 1-2. I try not to let the top teams move too much when there’s such a small sampling of games.

Now some sprinkle:

• Bay Area baseball is bubbling to start the season – the Giants are up 8 spots from the preseason rankings, the Oakland A’s are up 10.
• The Blue Jays are up 12 spots, but there’s no doubt in my mind they will fall once they start playing in their division.
• The Mets dropped 11 – did I overrate them to start the year?

Now the rankings:

1. New York Yankees
2. Philadelphia Phillies
3. St. Louis Cardinals
4. Tampa Bay Rays
5. San Francisco Giants
6. Boston Red Sox
7. Los Angeles Dodgers
8. Colorado Rockies
9. Minnesota Twins
10. Detroit Tigers
11. Los Angeles Angels
12. Seattle Mariners
13. Oakland Athletics
14. Arizona Diamondbacks
15. Toronto Blue Jays
16. Pittsburgh Pirates
17. Atlanta Braves
18. Cincinnati Reds
19. Texas Rangers
20. Florida Marlins
21. Milwaukee Brewers
22. New York Mets
23. Chicago Cubs
24. Chicago White Sox
25. Kansas City Royals
26. Cleveland Indians
27. Washington Nationals
28. Baltimore Orioles
29. San Diego Padres
30. Houston Astros

After reading these rankings, I know you will want to pick me apart for some of them. Feel free to voice any concern over these rankings in the comments below.

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