This Week's Top 10 MLB Takeaways

10) That one-year Ben Sheets signing for $8.5 million looks less super-geniusy for Billy Beane when Sheets has a 7.12 ERA

9) In today's game against the Yankees, six of the nine White Sox hitters started the game hitting under .220

8) You can watch a lot of baseball, on every level, and not see a hitter mess up a suicide squeeze bunt attempt the way Eric Byrnes did

7) Cliff Lee is five months away from free agency / signing a nine figure deal to replace Javier Vazquez in the Bronx

6) Between bomb scares and skyscraper suicides, it hasn't been a very comfortable year for Yankee opponents on the road

5) One game and zero national interest separates four teams in the AL West

4) We're officially 1 to 2 more last place weeks away from hearing how the Dodgers are getting tired of Manny Ramirez's act, regardless of the .415 batting average

3) The unspeakably flawed, doomed and unwatchable Red Sox are two games under .500, which means Red Sox Fan is totally justified in panicking

2) Atlanta looks like it wants to get Bobby Cox's last year over without drama

1) If the Padres keep winning 62% of their games long enough, someone might notice