It’s my third season sharing the Sports Illustrated power ranking duties with Nick Selbe, and this time of the year is always the most difficult for us to cleanly list these teams from worst to best. It’s hard to decide how much weight to put on preseason expectations and what has actually happened on the field in a small sample size.
What I’m saying here is, don’t be too hard on us. We’re not sure why the Pirates and A’s don’t have losing records, either.
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30. Cincinnati Reds (LW: 27)
The Reds not only won their first game in two weeks by beating St.