In the latest ESPN Power Rankings, the Boston Red Sox regained the #1 spot after taking a 1 week break from the list.  The Sox 62-40 record is the best in baseball.  The Mets jumped up a surprising 6 spots to #4.  The Mets all of the sudden have the best record in the NL again.  The Yankees have somehow moved up from 11th to 5th.

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The Sox deserve to move back into the 1 spot, after taking 3/4 from the very talented Cleveland Indians.  Last week, I complained that the Mets deserved to be higher than 10th and were not worse than 3 other NL teams.  While I do think the Mets are the best team in the NL, #4 may still be a little high for them, as the AL is so much better than the weak NL.  The Yankees makes absolutely no sense to me.  They're beating up on some of the worst teams and pitching staffs in baseball (TB, KC) and they should get rewarded for that?  There is no way in hell that the Yanks are a better team than the Angels (#6), who happen to have a 4.5 game better record.  In reality, it wouldn't matter anyways if the Yanks were #5, because they'd have to get past DET or CLE for the wild card and BOS for the division.  None of that will happen.  I still believe the Yanks will miss the playoffs...lets see them beat some teams that are even remotely mediocre.