Following our reset of the SI power rankings format coming out of the All-Star break, this is my first time taking on this task by myself. As you may come to learn over my weeks at the wheel, I’m not much for intros. You’re just here for the rankings, so let’s get to it:
30. Arizona Diamondbacks (Last Week: 30)
29. Texas Rangers (LW: 27)
Texas’s active 12-game losing streak is the third-longest in the majors this season, behind only Arizona’s 17-gamer and Baltimore’s 14-gamer. The Rangers have scored just 20 runs against 80 runs allowed during the skid, which includes defeats by the scores of 14–0 (to the Tigers), 10–0 and 10–2 (to the Blue Jays).