Here are the power rankings after the 10th week of MLB action.
Rank(Pv) |
Team |
Record |
Comments |
| 1(2) |  |
43-24 | The White Sox have continued to pace the league, but the best news about them is Carl Everett’s Hate List including: gays, fans, Wrigley Field, Jose Canseco and the Congressional steroid hearings. Isn’t this the same guy who thinks dinosaurs never existed? |
| 2(1) |  |
41-24 | Albert Pujols has been rather good on the road, reaching base in 31 of the Cardinals 32 road games. |
| 3(6) |  |
39-27 | I don’t necessarily like the Tomo Ohka for Junior Spivey trade, but Frank Robinson certainly wasn’t going anywhere and Spivey will just add depth when Jose Vidro returns as soon as two weeks from now. |
| 4(4) |  |
39-26 | In sweeping the Astros, Baltimore snapped an 11-series losing streak in interleague play. |
| 5(3) |  |
37-26 | Torii Hunter has been hot of late, which is a requirement if the Twins want to catch the White Sox. |
| 6(10) |  |
36-29 | The Red Sox played well last week, and are currently on a four game winning streak with a series against the Pirates coming up. |
| 7(8) |  |
37-28 | Darin Erstad is on a 16 game hit streak, and he’s also the all-time interleague hits leader with 194. |
| 8(13) |  |
36-30 | Philadelphia has continued playing well in the last week; hopefully Randy Wolf’s injury doesn’t derail them. |
| 9(7) |  |
35-29 | Chan Ho Park is 7-1 this year despite an ugly 5.15 ERA. |
| 10(5) |  |
36-29 | San Diego has continued to slide down the standings, going 2-8 in their last ten contests. |
| 11(17) |  |
33-30 | The Tribe is pretty hot right now, winners in eight of their last nine games including a current five game win streak. Activating Kevin Millwood should only help. |
| 12(12) |  |
34-30 | There have been rumors about Gary Sheffield being traded to the Cubs for some combination of Patterson, Mitre, Dubois and a prospect, but it doesn’t seem too likely to me. The Cubs are long on young outfield depth, even though Dusty doesn’t play them. |
| 13(16) |  |
33-30 | Josh Beckett is having problems with blisters yet again, and he had to leave Tuesday’s game in the sixth inning |
| 14(15) |  |
35-32 | The D-Backs are just two games back from the slumping Padres, but only a half game ahead of the Dodgers. |
| 15(16) |  |
33-31 | Gagne could be gone for up to two years, and this sprained elbow sounds like a potential career ending injury. Needless to say, this is horrible news for the Dodgers. |
| 16(21) |  |
32-32 | The Yankees are back to .500 thanks to a Jason Giambi walkoff. Meanwhile, Joe Torre keeps trying to find ways to use Tony Womack (even though he is horrible and has 0 HR’s) and may alternate between Womack and Bernie Williams in CF. |
| 17(14) |  |
33-33 | The Blue Jays have been swept by Houston and shut out by Chris Carpenter in the last week. |
| 18(11) |  |
33-32 | Atlanta has fallen off big time and won’t be helped any by Tim Hudson’s trip to the DL. |
| 19(19) |  |
30-32 | Omar Infante has been pretty bad lately, hitting .100 in his last 15 games. |
| 20(20) |  |
30-33 | The Pirates have won nine of their last 15 games, but by losing the first two games at Yankee Stadium they broke a five series long undefeated streak. |
| 21(13) |  |
32-33 | The Mets didn’t play well at all last week, going 1-6 and falling below .500. |
| 22(22) |  |
25-31 | Ichiro is only hitting .176 in June, but Seattle has still been competitive lately. |
| 23(23) |  |
23-34 | There have been some rumors around Barry Zito, but I think Oakland should be patient with him. He’s been pretty solid in most of his starts, he just needs more run support. |
| 24(18) |  |
29-36 | Trading Junior Spivey for Tomo Ohka was a good move for the Brewers, it nets them a serviceable pitcher and allows Rickie Weeks to become an everyday player. |
| 25(25) |  |
26-38 | Jeff Bagwell could be back in mid-September after surgery on his arthritic shoulder. |
| 26(24) |  |
26-39 | The Reds have been bad away from home this year, they’re only 6-24 when not at Great American Ball Park. |
| 27(29) |  |
23-41 | Kansas City was 5-2 last week, which is quite possibly they’ve been over .500 for a week this year. |
| 28(26) |  |
24-32 | The Giants are trying to stop the bleeding by releasing Jim Brower and calling up Jesse Foppert, but I don’t anticipate it helping too much. |
| 29(30) |  |
23-43 | Why in the world would the D-Rays cut on of their best hitters? Alex Sanchez had a .373 OBP, even with the terrible defense they could’ve traded him and got some decent value instead of just dropping him. |
| 30(29) |  |
21-42 | By going 0-3 Tuesday Ryan Shealey became the 13th rookie to be used by the Rockies this year. |