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Some say the only thing still holding this team in second was the model author's grip on the wheel. The grip slipped. blah blah, i'm not some, am I? Let's call it a type and move on. HR and RBI at 12 each is the good news, the bad news is Andrés Muñoz arrived from Sam on Wednesday and posted a 21.60 ERA in 1.2 innings, doing elaborate things with earned runs in the proud Rollie tradition of expensive acquisitions (Thank you, Sam). The Oracle has been right about this team all season. The Oracle is a piece of shit software.

The re-programming sessions aren't working. Cal Raleigh is shitty. Aaron Judge is hurt, or tired, or both. Connelly Early threw 9.1 innings at a 7.71 ERA and filed it under "things that happened." WHIP slid two points in seven days, and the author of these rankings has been ignoring all of it for three consecutive weeks on grounds that the standings say first. They still say first, I might add, and just when all looked lost, Tarik Skubal materialized on Shadowfax out of the eastern horizon, thundering toward Helm's Deep ready to fend off the Orc army (Rollie and his stupid mustache) and whatever remains of the week belongs to him.

Three lineup sessions for the week, again, but the roster keeps doing the work without supervision. Anthony could only dream of such autonomy. WHIP at 12 points, ERA at 11: the pitching profile is elite. RBI at four and SVH at one are the spots where the standings and the power rank tell different stories. Bryce Eldridge put up 1.356 OPS with three homers and eight RBI. Jazz Chisholm Jr. added four steals. Travis Bazzana went .364 OPS. Three sessions. The ghost pill has been placed. The ranking has been placed. Someone should tell the manager.

Third by roto, third by Oracle, fourth here, edged out by John Henry's recency bias. The shape of this roster is still unusual in a good way: SB and QS maxed at 12 each, winning with speed and innings. ERA and WHIP at six each is the ceiling, and the rotation made sure the ceiling was visible this week.

QS and K at 11 points each; R and OPS at four each. These two facts have been true long enough that writing them down feels like ceremony. Up 9.5 roto points in the last seven days, the league's best recent stretch and the reason this team holds fifth. Alec Burleson put up 1.109 OPS with five homers and eight RBI. Royce Lewis added 1.294 OPS with three homers. Emerson Hancock went 7.00 ERA through nine innings, the week's quiet objection from the pitching side. This is a contender if the bats keep it up.

Fourth in the standings at 91 points, Oracle fifth, sixth here: a franchise that keeps finishing just outside where the roster suggests it should land. OPS at 11 and homers at 10 are the legitimate strengths; WHIP at eight and RBI at eight are functional but unremarkable. Nick Kurtz put up 1.354 OPS with five homers and nine RBI, and Shohei Ohtani added 1.327 OPS with three homers. Chad Patrick answered from the mound with 17.18 ERA in 3.2 innings. ERA slid two points over the last seven days. Zero roto points gained or lost on the week.

The week's biggest jump, up two, driven by a recent-form signal that finally moved after weeks of flat. Ninth in the standings at 46 points, but Jackson Chourio went 1.402 OPS with five homers and ten RBI, the week's best individual hitting line in the league, and the model noticed. Jac Caglianone added 1.239 OPS with two homers. Mike Trout went .586 OPS and provided the counterweight. SVH at three and SB at one are the structural problems Chourio cannot solve alone. Six lineup sessions. The floor has been stubbornly low; the ceiling just showed up briefly.

Down one, last in the standings at 21.5 roto points, Oracle bottom, three lineup sessions for the week. The weekly heat data made the model briefly charitable: Iván Herrera posted 1.197 OPS with two homers and two steals, and Jordan Walker went .757 OPS with ten RBI. Scott Barlow then contributed 18.90 ERA in 3.1 innings. K at one point and WHIP at one point describe the pitching situation without embellishment. Millville's surge pushed this team out of seventh; the standings have not noticed and probably won't.

Down one after a week that slid 2.5 roto points and gave nothing back. The Oracle has this roster sixth overall, which keeps it from falling further, but ERA at one point and R at one point is a combination that generates movement in exactly one direction. Liam Hicks went 1.062 OPS with eight runs, and Kazuma Okamoto added two homers and six RBI. Zach Neto, the highest-ranked player on this roster, went .573 OPS across 35 plate appearances. Brandon Young climbed 412 Oracle spots to land at 824, which is an interesting fact about a player ranked 824th. Pitchers and catchers report in... 238 days. We'll seeya then, doctor.

Up one, eighth in the standings with 55 points, and 48 lineup sessions this week. RBI at nine and R at seven are the selling points. The active-roster projection sees only four contributing players, which is what keeps the season-long effort from translating upward. Zack Gelof went 1.122 OPS with three homers. Max Muncy posted 1.212 OPS with two homers. Brice Turang went .374 OPS in 30 plate appearances. Jack Flaherty is falling in the Oracle. The effort is not in question.

Down one from last week's 10th, which undersells the week's damage. ERA slid three points in seven days and active-roster projection came in thin after the Muñoz-for-Soto trade reduced the active SGP more than the SVH gain covers. SVH at 11.5 is still the one elite number; RBI at two and QS at two are the floor drags that keep the overall score in the bottom third. Juan Soto went 1.272 OPS. Otto Lopez added 1.019 OPS with three steals. Tomoyuki Sugano threw ten innings at 9.90 ERA, which is not the kind of pitching that resolves the quality-start problem. Millville's surge hurts here too.

The Oracle has this roster eighth. The standings say 11th with 31 points. The power model says 12th. These three numbers describe three distinct realities, and the most charitable one requires cherry-picking categories. ERA slid two points and SVH sits at two, HR at one. Bo Bichette went .990 OPS with three homers and eight RBI. T.J. Rumfield added 1.216 OPS with two homers. Aaron Nola threw nine innings at 8.00 ERA. Victor Caratini fell 418 spots in the Oracle in a single week, which is a number that comes with a story nobody is lining up to hear.