As the month of June winds to a close, the Major League Baseball landscape is starting to show a clearer line between contenders and non-contenders, though more than a few clubs still reside in the middle ground.

Featured in this week’s Power Rankings, Tarik Skubal shows out, the Astros are back among the game’s elite teams, Sonny Gray throws a super-charged Maddux, the Guardians’ bats are having a historically-bad June, James Wood gets the Barry Bonds treatment, and the Marlins are unstoppable.

There have been some mitigating circumstances around Seattle's drop from No. 13 to No. 15 in the latest MLB Power Rankings from The Athletic. That's not to say tuning in to a Mariners game to see if MLB home run leader Cal Raleigh can't connect again isn't a worthy reason to watch.