If I Were to Do Power Rankings for Week 10…

Jun 14

“When the heat is on, the pain is gone"

-Shaquille O'Neal, Icy Hot Commercial

My apologies for the late upload. Suffering both a head cold and a painful lower back made doing anything this week incredibly difficult. Week 10 also was a fairly big deal as Ian and Katelyn tied the knot that weekend. So other than some upset results, this week was rather tame in terms of any drastic fantasy moves.

So with that in mind, let’s see how week 10 went for everyone and where we all stack up:

Current Standings

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Mike
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James (+1)
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Dan (+1)
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Mark (-2)
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Andrew
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Richard (+3)
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Joey (+1)
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Jon (-1)
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Patrick (-3)
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Ian
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Brooke
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Week 9 Standings

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Once again, the roto snapshot for week 10 for your viewing pleasure.

Week 10 Power Rankings

1. Mike

Mike once again retains his top spot in these rankings. His team continues to do all the things from the weeks before. The only notable news here is the season ending injury for Corbin Burnes. Mike immediately pivoted and traded Andy Pages for Heller’s Dylan Cease. I’m not a Cease man myself, but this is a quality arm that could provide a stopgap to allow Mike’s pitching to continue its bulk dominance. I do believe this is a significant hit on Mike’s ERA though as Cease has been incredibly inconsistent this year to put it nicely. Thankfully, the strikeouts are still there to replace the ones lost by Burnes.

2. James

We’re getting to the point where a team’s consistent placement in the roto standings each week starts to push their power ranking up. James’s team keeps getting it done and in a large part it’s his pitching that does it. The other part is taking on a team like Heller’s who just completely failed to show up this week. The one stat that had me worried for a bit is his home run stat. Despite having a whopping 5 from Pete Alonso this week, James barely tied Heller in that stat as he is 8th in the league for home runs. I say it “had” me worried because it ultimately doesn’t matter because despite not being strong in homers, James is second in Runs, third in RBI, first in AVG, and third in OPS. Who needs homers if you’re getting literally all the other stats?

3. Mark

Despite a week that saw Mark almost get swept, he remains in the top three. This is because I know a cold week when I see one and because this article is so late, I also have noticed Mark’s team has already bounced back from week 10. Regardless, this is a team that seems streakier than I had presumed before. Schwarber, you expect that sort of thing from, but it was interesting to see Freddie Freeman go quiet as well. I think Mark’s biggest problem right now is his team is built on a lot of players that go on these hot streaks. People like Taylor Ward, Josh Naylor, and Josh Smith are just not players you can rely on to stay consistent week to week. And when both they and your reliable bats go cold, your team gets trounced by the 10th place team.

Things aren’t all bad though, Mark still has this army of pitchers at his disposal and that’s before he starts streaming. Winning IP and Ks from Mark will take a lot of luck and skill as it just seems daunting to see all those pitchers in his lineup. Some weeks will see Mark’s ERA and WHIP fail him, but there will be other weeks where he’ll challenge James and Mike for all the pitching categories.

4. Dan

A bit of a confession: I see Dan, my team, and Vinson’s all around the same place now. If I could, I would have them all as tied 4th place teams. But I have to pick someone, and I feel more comfortable with Dan’s team eking out a win than mine or Vinson’s. That being said, he had to lower himself to Jon’s level in terms of streaming pitching thanks to Festa and Luzardo nuking his ratios. This is an area of his team that has the most question marks going forward while his hitting has been solid with Ketel Marte and Isaac Paredes leading the charge this week.

5. Vinson

This team is weird. The players that are still on this roster puzzle me. If this was 2024 Vinson then Kristian Campbel, Brenton Doyle, Michael Harris II, and Mark Veintos would have all been dropped weeks ago. Instead, they’re resting safely in the 5th ranked team. Perhaps we should all be grateful for that as it allowed Joey to bring Vinson to a tie this week. Streaming pulled Vinson’s pitching out of the fire, but the real headlines are how banged up this whole team is. The amount of flexibility has shrunk which makes why he’s holding onto dead weights like Doyle and Campbell so weird. I can easily imagine a yawn from Vinson at this because he really hasn’t been punished at all with holding onto these guys. Vinnie Pasquantino is hitting 500 now and Fried is still doing his thing. I’m poking holes at something that isn’t too worried about any of it.

6. Richard

Look, I’m high on my own supply here. I know it. You know it. This is probably a rank too high for someone who just got to 7th place, but damn did this team perform to all my expectations finally. And it took out one of the top 3 teams in the league. The offense was on fire (CES is back! Trout is healthy!), the pitching hit high marks everywhere (MacKenzie Gore: league leader in strikeouts!). My only regret was not getting SOLDS at the end there. This team is fire incarnate. It’s hot stuff. Everyone wants a piece of it. Men want to be it. But let’s not ignore that this team also was room temperature for the first 8 weeks of the season. That team still exists here somewhere and if the hitting doesn’t keep this up, it’s in for a rough time. Pitching is also lacking as having two hitters on the bench is less than ideal to maximize the pitching bulk stats. But that can be fixed along the way, hopefully.

7. Andrew

The offense still hasn’t shown back up. Worse, he practically got swept by one of the teams he definitely needed a win against if he hoped to catch the top teams. Kerry Bonds, Nolan Aranado, and Trea Turner were the only signs of life on his team this week as they provided 7 of Andrew’s 10 home runs. On the pitching side, he was done in by a series of blow ups. Most notable was Taj Bradley who just had to ruin Evan Longoria day with this garbage outing. This probably wouldn’t have been what killed Heller, but hey just got creamed by reliever blow ups and Dylan Cease. Speaking of Dylan Cease, he won’t be a problem anymore as Heller has upped his offense by trading him away for Andy Pages (and also an injured, probably not pitching this year, GrayRod). So hopefully this helps alleviate the hitting woes a bit.

8. Joey

Joey has quietly had one of the best pitching staffs in the league. You wouldn’t think it when you glance at his team, but the combination of Webb, Yamamoto, Ranger Suarez, and Boyd have produced an incredibly deep rotation to go along with three of the top relievers in baseball. The result is stellar ratios without sacrificing the bulk stats. Where Joey falls short is in his hitting with players like Spencer Steer and Lars Nootbaar having disappointed mightily all season. Losing Bryce Harper also didn’t help matters either.

9. Jon

There was a moment where I thought Jon was showing some life. A lot of his players are healthy now and it looked like they would produce right where they left off. Instead, his team went back to being middling and worse, being on day-to-day status. It’s a frustrating season for Jon and barely grabbing three points against Dan as his ego balloons doesn’t help matters. The early sell also didn’t help, but that’s beside the point now. Here’s the good news: Jazz is back and is finally doing something (albeit one of those day-to-day statuses) and McLain also seems to be slightly back too. Can Jon make a weird late season push like last year? It’s really hard to say based on how his team seems to keep sabotaging him. But maybe?

10. Brooke

Alec Burleson has begun his summer surge. He did it a little later last year, so it’ll be interesting to see if he keeps it up or fades after a month. That’s about the end of the good things to say about Brooke’s offense this week as it was completely barren. Fortunately, she was against Ian who equally was terrible. This matchup was not a great watch. On the plus side, George Kirby seems to be back… unfortunately at a time when Castillo and Crochet seem to be awful. If Brooke’s pitching ever gets on the same page, she’ll be a potent force to deal with. But her offense is always going to hold her back unless she can make some moves.

11. Pat

When we look back at this season will we talk about how much of a waste Ian’s team was with all those first round draft picks or how much Pat squandered his opportunity with the best core of keepers in the league? Pat’s team is dreadful, and it continues to have dreadful decisions with the need to pick up every White Sox or Marlins prospect of the week or every catcher eligible bat while continuing to hold onto faded players like Yastrzemski, Buehler, and Severino from time immemorial. Yes, some of this is incredibly bad luck with Pat. Henderson’s slow start to name a few. But I look at this team and I do not recognize any of these names and worse, none of them are actually performing. So why are they here and what is the plan?

12. Ian

I will say that I’m glad Ian isn’t going down without a fight. Yes, he inflicted this carnage on himself, but he also didn’t have to pick up Christian Walker and Willy Adames. They won’t help him win per se, but they should be better than they currently are and will at least make matches against Ian more challenging than before. Unfortunately, with the exception of JRod, this week was a bit of a letdown for Ian’s team. It also was during a time when Ian was prepping for his wedding so I think we can give him a pass for any mistakes that might have been made. On the plus side, it’s nice to see some life from Barger who is the current fad sleeper for industry analysts right now. Mick Abel also looks cherry which should be making Ian feel pretty good that he at least has a productive Philly on his ailing team.

Performances of the week:

Hitter:

Pete Alonso: 12/30, 9 Runs, 5 HR, 15 RBI, .400 AVG, 1.452 OPS

Pitcher:

Logan Webb: 14 IP, 17Ks, 1.29 ERA, 0.857 WHIP, 17.17 K/BB

Clutch performances of the Week: