Inside MLB - Latest Power Rankings

With the All-Star break behind us and the trade deadline rapidly approaching, it figures to be a busy couple of weeks around the baseball landscape.

This week's power rankings reflect just one series' worth of games, as the All-Star festivities made it an abridged week, so there was not as much shuffling as normal.

When putting together this list, we considered the following factors:

• Last week's record
• Quality of opponent
• Key injuries/trades
• Recent performance beyond the last week

While those four areas remained the deciding factors in where teams moved in the rankings, the focus of this week's team-by-team write-ups is what we can expect on the trade market between now and the July 31 deadline.

The goal, as always, is to be as objective as possible. But a certain amount of subjectivity will always come into play with something like this.

Just remember: This is a fluid process. Teams will rise and fall on a weekly basis relative to where they ranked previously. You keep winning, you keep climbing—it's as simple as that.