MLB power rankings for start of August

By Rick Morris

NOTE: Rankings from the start of the season to the last installment are in parentheses.

TOP TIER

1 Oakland (1-1-3-1-1-1)

2 Los Angeles Angels (14-6-6-6-2-2)

SECOND TIER

3 Los Angeles Dodgers (5-8-10-10-4-10)

4 Baltimore (16-16-15-13-5-4)

5 Detroit (8-4-4-5-8-5)

6 Washington (7-10-11-11-11-6)

7 St. Louis (11-11-7-7-10-3)

8 Toronto (19-18-5-4-14-16)

9 San Francisco (4-3-1-2-9-8)

10 Milwaukee (2-2-2-3-3-11)

11 Kansas City (10-9-21-9-12-20)

12 Pittsburgh (26-24-22-21-15-12)

13 Seattle (24-19-18-16-7-9)

14 Atlanta (3-5-8-8-6-7)

15 Cleveland (27-26-26-18-19-14)

16 New York Yankees (13-17-9-15-16-15)

17 Cincinnati (15-14-17-17-13-13)

THIRD TIER

18 Tampa Bay (21-21-24-28-20-17)

19 Chicago White Sox (18-20-20-20-18-19)

20 Miami (17-12-12-12-17-22)

21 New York Mets (9-15-16-25-23-21)

FOURTH TIER

22 San Diego (25-25-25-26-21-27)

23 Arizona (30-28-29-30-29-23)

24 Minnesota (22-22-23-24-22-24)

25 Boston (20-13-19-22-25-18)

26 Houston (29-30-28-23-26-26)

27 Chicago Cubs (28-29-30-29-27-29)

28 Philadelphia (23-27-27-27-28-25)

FIFTH TIER

29 Colorado (6-7-14-14-30-28)

30 Texas (12-23-13-19-24-30)

BIGGEST RISERS: Kansas City (9 spots), Toronto (8 spots), Los Angeles Dodgers (7 spots), San Diego (5 spots)

BIGGEST FALLERS: Atlanta and Boston (7 spots), Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Seattle and St. Louis (4 spots), Philadelphia (3 spots)

RANKINGS BY DIVISION – 1 POINT PER RANKING SPOT FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL TEAM, LOWEST SCORE IS BEST

1 AL EAST 71

2 AL WEST 72

3 AL CENTRAL 74

4 NL CENTRAL 83

5 NL WEST 86

6 NL EAST 89

AL 217

NL 258