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The careers of two huge names in baseball, the Texas Rangers' Prince Fielder and New York Yankees' Alex Rodriguez, came to their respective conclusions this week.

Qualifying the careers of both will certainly be a popular topic in baseball circles over the coming weeks.

But with much still to be determined in the 2016 season, other storylines continued to percolate. What teams and players made headlines this week?

We have reached what can be considered roughly the three-quarter mark of the 2016 MLB season, and that means it's time for an updated look at the top 100 players in the game.

While previous editions of this list have taken into account things such as a player's track record and future expectations, we're far enough along that this time around the only thing that matters is performance here in 2016.

With two months to go in the 2016 MLB season, a number of teams are already looking ahead to the future after selling at the deadline.

That's exactly what we'll do here.

Baseball is nearly impossible to predict on a year-in and year-out basis, but what follows is an attempt at projecting how the league will look three years from now.

Unlike in the other major professional sports, there is no instant return for MLB clubs with their draft picks. Teams have to wait for their amateur selections to work their way through the minor league ranks before showing what they can do against big league competition.

Now that we've had some time to digest what went down at the MLB trade deadline and have seen how teams are faring with their new roster additions, it's time for another look at how all 30 teams stack up.

The Texas Rangers briefly climbed into the No. 1 spot in these rankings thanks to their flurry of deadline activity, but their stay at the top was short-lived. We have a new top team once again this week.

Some might look at Mark Teixeira's time with the New York Yankees and call him a dud, noting that the eight-year, $180 million deal that he signed in December 2008 resulted in only one World Series title. But you can't argue with the man when he says that he "gave [Yankees fans] everything [he] had," as he did at the press conference announcing his retirement at season's end.

Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig has largely been a mystery since he made his MLB debut in 2013.

He has flashed unbelievable talent and athleticism that suggests he could be among baseball’s best to play the game. But off-the-field drama, injuries and a questionable work ethic have gotten in the way of that.

This past week, the Dodgers decided he will have to figure it out elsewhere, at least for the time being.

The team demoted him to Triple-A.

The MLB trade deadline has come and gone, and along with some notable veterans changing teams, there was also the usual bevy of prospect talent changing hands.

With that in mind, what follows is an updated look at where all 30 farm systems rank, as well as an updated look at each team's top 10 prospects.

The following factors helped determine the rankings of players and teams:

The 2016 MLB trade deadline came and went Monday afternoon. After a flurry of activity, the MLB landscape has been significantly altered.

Generally a Monday morning staple, we held off an extra day on this week's MLB power rankings so as to include all of the deadline action in determining where teams fall this time around.

While recent performance still played a role in shifting positions, as it does in our normal rankings, the main focus this time around was on what teams did at the deadline.

Friday saw us take a look at the best that baseball had to offer in July. Now it's time to look at the other end of the spectrum—the worst of the worst.

Appearing on July's All-Dud team doesn't mean that these players are, like Donny Kerabatsos, out of their element, only that they've found themselves in a horrendous funk that can't end fast enough.