{"id":423641,"date":"2026-08-04T15:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423641\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T15:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T15:46:11","slug":"mlb-power-rankings-on-to-the-final-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/423641\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB power rankings: On to the final stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Padres and Diamondbacks both needed pitching.<\/p>\n<p>The Padres added two starters without subtracting from the big-league roster. The Diamondbacks added none.<\/p>\n<p>So one team clearly won the deadline \u2014 although Arizona outbid San Diego for Lars Nootbaar \u2014 but that didn\u2019t matter much on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Pfaadt out-dueled Michael King, the Phillies also won and the Padres dropped two games behind both Arizona and Philadelphia in the race for the NL\u2019s final two wild-card spots.<\/p>\n<p>The setback also shaved the Padres\u2019 playoff odds at Fangraphs.com from 29% to 23.3%.<\/p>\n<p>The final stretch is only just beginning, but the Padres need to reverse course in the desert quickly this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The top-10 \u2026<\/p>\n<p>1\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Milwaukee Brewers (69-42; Last week: 1)<br \/>\n2\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Los Angeles Dodgers (69-44; LW: 2)<br \/>\n3\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Atlanta Braves (67-45; LW: 3)<br \/>\n4\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago Cubs (64-49; LW: 6)<br \/>\n5\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Tampa Bay Rays (65-46; LW: 4)<br \/>\n6\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 New York Yankees (63-50; LW: 5)<br \/>\n7\u00a0\u00a0 |\u00a0\u00a0 Boston Red Sox (60-51; LW: 8)<br \/>\n8\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Chicago White Sox (59-52; LW: 7)<br \/>\n9\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0 Arizona Diamondbacks (60-53; LW: 12)<br \/>\n10 |\u00a0\u00a0 Philadelphia Phillies (60-53; LW: 10)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 and the rest<\/p>\n<p>11 |\u00a0\u00a0 SAN DIEGO PADRES (58-55; LW: 15)<br \/>\n12 |\u00a0\u00a0 Miami Marlins (58-55; LW: 16)<br \/>\n13 |\u00a0\u00a0 Pittsburgh Pirates (57-57; LW: 9)<br \/>\n14 |\u00a0\u00a0 Detroit Tigers (54-58; LW: 20)<br \/>\n15 |\u00a0\u00a0 Cleveland Guardians (57-56; LW: 14)<br \/>\n16 |\u00a0\u00a0 St. Louis Cardinals (56-57; LW: 13)<br \/>\n17 |\u00a0\u00a0 Washington Nationals (55-59; LW: 11)<br \/>\n18 |\u00a0\u00a0 Houston Astros (58-56; LW: 22)<br \/>\n19 |\u00a0\u00a0 Minnesota Twins (56-57; LW: 19)<br \/>\n20 |\u00a0\u00a0 Seattle Mariners (55-58; LW: 18)<br \/>\n21 |\u00a0\u00a0 Texas Rangers (55-57; LW: 17)<br \/>\n22 |\u00a0\u00a0 Baltimore Orioles (54-58; LW: 21)<br \/>\n23 |\u00a0\u00a0 Cincinnati Reds (53-58; LW: 23)<br \/>\n24 |\u00a0\u00a0 Toronto Blue Jays (53-60; LW: 24)<br \/>\n25 | \u00a0\u00a0San Francisco Giants (47-65; LW: 25)<br \/>\n26 |\u00a0\u00a0 New York Mets (47-66; LW: 26)<br \/>\n27 |\u00a0\u00a0 Kansas City Royals (46-67; LW: 27)<br \/>\n28 |\u00a0\u00a0 Colorado Rockies (45-67; LW: 30)<br \/>\n29 |\u00a0\u00a0 Los Angeles Angels (43-69; LW: 28)<br \/>\n30 |\u00a0\u00a0 Sacramento Athletics (45-67; LW: 29)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Padres and Diamondbacks both needed pitching. The Padres added two starters without subtracting from the big-league roster.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,1334,74,76,75,2611,127],"class_list":["post-423641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}