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I'm a little late getting this up this week. I've been extremely busy and just got around to doing it. I only counted the games up until Sunday.

1 Red Sox (7-6) Last Week-1
2 Diamondbacks (9-3) Last Week-7
3 Yankees (6-7) Last Week-2
4 Angels (7-6) Last Week-6
5 Padres (7-6) Last Week-5
6 Mets (5-6) Last Week-4
7 Brewers (8-4) Last Week-9
8 Cubs (7-5) Last Week-8
9 Indians (5-7) Last Week-3
10 Blue Jays (7-5) Last Week-13
11 Phillies (6-7) Last Week-10
12 Cardinals (9-4) Last Week-18
13 White Sox (7-4) Last Week-16
14 Royals (7-5) Last Week-19
15 Mariners (6-7) Last Week-15
16 Braves (5-7) Last Week-14
17 Tigers (2-10) Last Week-11
18 Dodgers (5-7) Last Week-12
19 Twins (6-6) Last Week-21
20 Athletics (8-5) Last Week-26
21 Rockies (5-7) Last Week-20
22 Reds (6-7) Last Week-17
23 Orioles (7-5) Last Week-24
24 Rays (6-6) Last Week-22
25 Rangers (5-7) Last Week-23
26 Marlins(7-5) Last Week-28
27 Pirates (6-6) Last Week-29
28 Astros (5-8) Last Week-25
29 Giants (5-8) Last Week-30
30 Nationals (4-9) Last Week-27

A few big movers this week, but all in all it's too early to make any big judgements.

1 Red Sox 3-4) Last Week-1. A rough week, but considering the road they've been on already, that was probably to be expected.
2 Yankees (3-3) Last Week-2. Struggled early, but so did most other contending teams.
3 Indians (3-3) Last Week-4. Need Sabathia to start pitching better.
4 Mets (2-3) Last Week-5. Losing Pedro isn't going to help their pitching depth.
5 Padres (4-3) Last Week-6. Finally, a team with a winning record! Peavy looks great early.
6 Angels (4-3) Last Week-7. Currently the only AL team predicted to make the playoffs with a winning record.
7 Diamondbacks (4-2) Last Week-10. Pitching could carry them a long way.
8 Cubs (3-3) Last Week-9. Kosuke Fukudome, welcome to Chicago.
9 Brewers (5-1) Last Week-16. It's early, but I may have underestimated them.
10 Phillies (2-4) Last Week-8. Just their usual slow start.
11 Tigers (0-6) Last Week-3. You simply can't get swept by the Royals and White Sox if you expect to contend in the AL.
12  Dodgers (4-2) Last Week-14. If the offense can produce, this could be the darkhorse team in the NL.
13 Blue Jays (4-2) Last Week-15. Great week against the teams they're trying to catch this year. Keep an eye on them.
14 Braves (3-3) Last Week-12. Struggled with the Pirates. For that alone they drop this week.
15 Mariners (2-4) Last Week-11. I'm not convinced that they are real contenders. Need huge years out of Bedard and Hernandez.
16 White Sox (4-2) Last Week-19. Much better team than last year. Looked real good against Detroit.
17 Reds (4-2) Last Week-18. Darkhorse in the NL Central.
18 Cardinals (5-1) Last Week-20. Where did that come from? 5 wins without a Pujols home run.
19 Royals (4-2) Last Week-21. Pitching looked great in sweep of Tigers. Can they keep it up?
20 Rockies (1-5) Last Week-13. Latest in line of NL champions who struggle to play .500 ball the next year?
21 Twins (3-4) Last Week-17. Will continue to be the Twins. Good pitching, good defense, and be a pesky team for anyone to play.
22 Rays (3-2) Last Week-22. Won a series over the Yankees.
23 Rangers (3-3) Last Week-23. Had some decent pitching this week. If the Mariners drop off, they could contend for 2nd.
24 Orioles (4-1) Last Week-27. Surprise of the week. Doubtful they keep it up for long.
25 Astros (2-5) Last Week-24. Is this really the same franchise that was in the World Series in 2005?
26 A's (3-4) Last Week-25. Won the series against Cleveland and played Boston tough.
27 Nationals (3-4) Last Week-26. Started out 3-0. Then they came back to Earth.
28 Marlins (3-3) Last Week-30. 2 wins against Pirates move them up 2 spots.
29 Pirates (3-3) Last Week-29. Won the Atlanta series, then lost the Florida series.
30 Giants (1-5) Last Week-28. They're terrible. Get ready for 100 losses by the bay.

This is kind of a last minute thing, but I just decided to do it last night. For the first week I'll rank the teams based on my predicted records for this season.

1 Boston
2 New York Yankees
3 Detroit
4 Cleveland
5 New York Mets
6 San Diego
7 Los Angeles Angels
8 Philadelphia
9 Chicago Cubs
10 Arizona
11 Seattle
12 Atlanta
13 Colorado
14 Los Angeles Dodgers
15 Toronto
16 Milwaukee
17 Minnesota
18 Cincinnati
19 Chicago White Sox
20 St. Louis
21 Kansas City
22 Tampa Bay
23 Texas
24 Houston
25 Oakland
26 Washington
27 Baltimore
28 San Francisco
29 Pittsburgh
30 Florida

East
New York 93-69
Philadelphia 91-71
Atlanta 87-75
Washington 68-94
Florida 63-99

Central
Chicago 90-72
Milwaukee 81-81
Cincinnati 76-86
St. Louis 74-88
Houston 72-90
Pittsburgh 66-96

West
San Diego 93-69
Arizona 89-73
Colorado 86-76
Los Angeles 84-78
San Francisco 66-96

Playoffs
AL: Detroit over New York 3-1, Boston over Los Angeles 3-0
NL: New York over Chicago 3-0, San Diego over Philadelphia 3-2
AL: Detroit over Boston 4-3
NL: New York over San Diego 4-1
World Series: Detroit over New York 4-2

Thought about taking Boston again, but I feel like they just have too big of a bullseye on their backs. There are probably a handful of teams who could win it all, but the Tiger fan in me just couldn't pick against the Tigers.

Without taking when each team is playing each other into account(for example, the Tigers playing the Yankees and Red Sox early when the bullpen will struggle most), I went through each teams schedule and approximated how many wins I thought they'd get against each team they played. The standings that came out of it were this.

East
Boston 97-65
New York 96-66
Toronto 82-80
Tampa Bay 74-88
Baltimore 67-95

Central
Detroit 95-67
Cleveland 94-68
Minnesota 76-86
Chicago 75-87
Kansas City 74-88

West
L.A. 91-71
Seattle 87-75
Texas 72-90
Oakland 71-91

Of course any of these records can dramatically changed with injuries. But going into the season, I think this is a pretty good guess for how the standings may look at the end of the se