Invite to the regular MLB Power Rankings. If you didn't figure it out from the a little altered lyrics to the "New Girl" motif track-- I have actually never ever seen that show, yet I know the damn track-- we're examining in on every team's freshest faces this week. It's The New Individual Edition!AdvertisementAs constantly, these positions are brought to you by our triune of mental ability: me, Zach Buchanan Yankees Store, along with Nick Groke as well as Stephen Nesbitt. We guarantee we absolutely read the remarks as well as promise we are not psychologically affected by them at all at all.Read the newest version of MLB Power Rankings.Guess the amount of gamers on the Rays' active roster were gotten this offseason.Time's up. What's your answer?Two. And also it was just one prior to Zach Eflin returned from the injured listing Sunday. Eflin signed a three-year, $40 million take care of the Rays this winter, and also currently he has a 2.81 period across three begins. The other offseason pick-up presently with the Rays' major-league club is Kevin Kelly, a Rule 5 reducer gotten for money from the Rockies. That's it. The Rays primarily ran it back-- just without Kevin Kiermaier, Corey Kluber, Ji Man Choi, Mike Zunino, Brooks Raley, Nick Anderson, Jimmy Yacabonis, Ryan Yarbrough, JT Chargois, J.P. Feyereisen, et al.-- and also are April's best team. New guys? Who requires 'em ?!-- Stephen Nesbitt2. Atlanta BravesRecord: 14-8
Last Power Position: 2Don' t allowed the existing four-game skid distract you from the fact the Braves took care of to barely take part in free firm yet still squash their offseason acquisitions. Nick Anderson? Quality arm (regardless of contributing to Sunday's collapse). Kevin Pillar? Great handwear cover. A number of economical and wise finalizings right there. But just how 'spell them trades? Sean Murphy has actually been even much better than advertised in Atlanta, with a 1.033 OPS after coming over from Oakland in a three-team trade this winter. Joe Jimnez is another bullpen option off to a solid start-- and also healthy and balanced, unlike fellow offseason profession includes Kolby Allard and also Lucas Luetge. And Sam Hilliard, acquired from the Rockies for bottle Dylan Spain, has been wonderful in center area, playing plus protection as well as splashing baseballs to the song of a. The three-team smash hit sell mid-December in between the Brewers, Braves and A's that swapped, like, 60 players was a head-spinner. Never ever mind trying to quality the trade. Just listing all the players is hard sufficient. Long story short, the Makers desired to update from Victor Caratini as their No. 1 catcher and they landed William Contreras to do it. Until now, he has been an upgrade. Caratini last year was about 17 percent below league average as a player. This year, Contreras is regarding 15 percent far better than league average. A 30-percent swing. In this day and age, there truly aren't way too many good hitting catchers. It's a down period. As well as with every one of MLB's guidelines changes, catchers have a lot more obligations behind the plate.