Power Rankings are worth exactly nothing, and we only pay attention to them when a local team is rated particularly high or particularly low — and even then, championships are not awarded based upon what a random set of writers think (at least now that college football changed its ways).
But I will pause to note that the Twins have moved into the top five of the ESPN baseball power rankings for the first time this season, at the No. 5 spot.
Yes, they are deemed the fifth-best team in baseball by ESPN at this moment, and the second-best in the American League behind the Astros. There are no parts of that sentence that would have made any kind of sense two months ago, so let's just acknowledge it and appreciate it for what it is.
The Royals, who are in town starting Monday night, by the way, are No. 6. It should be a low-scoring series punctuated by whichever bullpen is best, which means it will likely instead be a bunch of 8-7 slugfests.
