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Fagan: Baseball Power Poll: Red Sox rise to the top

 
It was a tight race for the top slot, but the Sox get the nod this week because they swept last week's No. 1 team, the Rays, and all the Cubbies did was waltz through the anemic N.L. West. (link)

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