The Cardinals rise to No. 8 in Bleacher Report’s MLB power rankings after sweeping the Guardians and leapfrogging the slumping Yankees.

Featured in this week’s Power Rankings, Tarik Skubal shows out, the Astros are back among the game’s elite teams, Sonny Gray throws a super-charged Maddux, the Guardians' bats are having a historically-bad June,

We play a lot of close game,” Shildt said, “and we need to figure out a way to add on and have a little bit of margin for error with our pitching group.” It’s the story more often than not. The Padres are three games better than they were through 83 games last year,

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