MLB Power Rankings: Week 2
MLB Power Rankings: Where we concern what you've done for us lately when we damage down the who's who and the what's what in the baseball world every week.
It's been a while since a week of baseball was this sad -- we saw the tragic passings of Nick Adenhart, Harry Kalas and Mark Fidrych. And without waxing too sentimentally, it's the loss of these men that caution us accurate just how little sports matter in the grand scheme of entities. RIP, gentlemen. Power rankings (that feel just a tad inconsequential, to be genuine) after the jump.
1. Braves | Previous Week: 5
The Braves position in the altitude five in the majors in batting average (fourth) and sl
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supra tk society, but it's been their circulation that's been all chocolate-y good. Derek Lowe has a sub-1.00 ERA and virtually a strikeout per inning and Jair Jurrjens has a 2.45 ERA and is 2-0 in his first two starts. Kelly Johnson,
louboutin pumps, Jordan Schafer and Brian McCann all have smacked two home runs in their first six games. This team is currently running pearly peppery, but beware of the bullpen. -- Knox Bardeen
2. Cubs| Previous Week: 2
Geovany Soto,
vibram fivefingers, Milton Bradley, and Aramis Ramirez are hurt. Derrek Lee can't hit. The bullpen has been inconsistent. And already, here they sit at 5-2. It's a testament to the depth on Lou Pinella's union. It's the maximum complete team in the National League, but they face a big early-season test when the rival Cardinals head to Wrigley for a four-game set. -- Matt Snyder
3. Rays| Previous Week: 4
The Rays dripped two straight to the Orioles on Friday and Saturday ahead exploding for 11 runs on Sunday. Monday saw B.J. Upton return, the AL competition banner get heaved and 15 more runs off the Yankees. Then they get no-hit for 6 innings and who knows what to make of them right now? -- Josh Alper
4. Red Sox | Previous Week: 1
Reason to anxiety about the health of the Sox? Jon Lester is 0-2 with a 9.00 ERA and David Ortiz has five singles and no extra-base hits. Throw in Josh Beckett's suspension and it's been a shaky start for the Boston nine, though Kevin Youkilis has done naught but rake since the season began. -- JA
5. Mets| Previous Week: 3
Let's talk about disadvantageous. Johan Santana strikes out 13 batters, only walks one and doesn't give up a hit in seven innings and loses the game. When the Mets start winning all of Santana's masterful representations (like they ought), this team will be difficult. J.J. Putz and K-Rod are looking imaginary as the dynamic duo in the eighth and ninth innings, but the Mets offense just isn't clicking yet. -- KB
6. Dodgers | Previous Week: 9
When you can score a escape on an inning-ending twice melodrama, you must be doing something right. Chad Billingsley's dominant excursion against the Giants on Monday bodes well for their hereafter. Of way, it was only against the Giants. See what happens while they face a real lineup. -- Jeff Fletcher
7. Marlins | Previous Week: 12
The starting pitching in Miami was assumed to be the speak of the town, but while it's good it pales in comparison to Bonifacio-mania. Emilio Bonifacio who didn't even acquire his starting job until the last week of spring training is batting .500 (14-for-28) with a family run and four stolen bases. Josh Johnson has posted a sick 15-to-1 strikeout to walk ratio on his way to a 2-0 record and Chris Volstad is sporting a 1.80 ERA. The Marlins might get outdrawn by the shire jamboree, but they're playing like rock stars. -- KB
8. Yankees | Previous Week: 8
Two ways of looking at 28.53. If you're Citigroup, it is a dream stock cost that would cheer the country. If you're Chien-Ming Wang, it's your ERA and folk are marveling if the Yankee rotation needs a bailout. They'll finally open the current stadium this week, which should give them a elevator. -- JA
9. Cardinals | Previous Week: 1
If Chris Carpenter's injury on Tuesday isn't too serious, adding him and Adam Wainwright back to the rotation may be enough to push the Cards towards melee. If the injury is serious, many of the questions that circled the team last year still stay. -- Pat Lackey
10. Phillies | Previous Week: 4
While the centers of all baseball fans and principally the Phillies' home are cumbersome this week with the passing of legendary broadcaster Harry Kalas, the Phillies have been attempting to play out of a funk that started with the dropping of their opening series to the Braves. It's not easy to rotate things approximately when your starting pitchers give up 31 earned runs and 11 home runs in 29 innings. -- KB
11. Royals | Previous Week: 24
Zack Greinke heven now to give up a run this season in 11 innings, and has a streak of 25 scoreless going back to last season. The Royals also have the second best ERA in the AL behind Seattle. If only the offense could score runs. -- Tom Fornelli
12. White Sox | Previous Week: 14
The White Sox bats were silent against the Royals to start the season, but since they've scored 29 runs in their last four games and have a team ERA of 3.57 on the season. Hell, even Bartolo Colon went for six shutout innings against the Twins last Saturday. -- TF
13. Mariners | Previous Week: 20
Did everybody beat it on the Mariners twice? Last annual we all thought their pitching would be good and it stunk. So this year we didn't make the same error. Everyone picked them for last. Now Jarrod Washburn, Erik Bedard and even Carlos Silva are pitching like they did at their best. Don't rain on their first-week parade and mention it won't last. Seattle gets enough rain already.
14. Orioles | Previous Week: 17
The Orioles have scored 10 runs twice and they've allowed 11 twice which isn't a recipe for a very good record, but it makes fjust aboutme watchable baseball. Also watchable: Breakout nominee Adam Jones, who is hitting for power and average and raising wishes in the Charm City. -- JA
15. Rangers | Previous Week: 11
OK, so the total and absolute freakout over the Rangers might have been precocious ... or maybe not. Everyone on this team has started slowly, including
monster-masher Chris Davis, who has finally started to get warmed up in his last two games, parking a pellet in the stands each night. Remember the old adage about Texas heat, baseball and the summer? Oh, well, it method more offense.
16. Reds | Previous Week: 19
Aaron Harang seems to have recovered his antique fashion and Joey Votto, Brandon Phillips, and Edwin Encarnacion are off to a great begin by the panel. The recess of the pitching staff has been pretty rancid, though, and Jay Bruce is off to a needy begin for well. -- PL
17. Angels | Previous Week: 13
The injuries apt John Lackey, Kelvim Escobar and Ervin Santana suddenly appear so puny. In the outward globe of the baseball standings, although, it namely working apt be extra vital than ever for those guys apt come back soon, and come back lusty. Kudos to the Halos as taking two of three from the Red Sox in their first sequence after the Nick Adenhart catastrophe. -- JF
18. Twins | Previous Week: 7
The Twins are 4-5 to start the season, but considering Joe Mauer isn't in the lineup, whichever record close .500 in his absence has to be considered a victory. Plus Justin Morneau is hitting .324 with two homers and 8 runs pedaled in already. Imagine how his numbers would look if he still had Mauer getting on base ahead of him. -- TF
19. Diamondbacks | Previous Week: 6
Brandon Webb isn't the only great pitcher on this team -- Dan Haren is apparently very good too -- yet if Webb's elbow injury (something that has wasted my virtual-ink-filled psyche the final week) is more serious than either he alternatively the team is letting on, the Snakes will be in serious difficulty. Also: Justin Upton is hitless on the season and might absence to pate back to Triple-A for a tiny more seasoning.
20. Blue Jays | Previous Week: 22
Are Adam Lind, Vernon Wells and Travis Snider a modern daytime edition of George Bell,
christian louboutin wedges, Lloyd Moseby and Jesse Barfield? Maybe not, but they are powering the league's maximum scoring team thus far and that's good enough for a second week in first place for the Jays. -- JA
21. Pirates | Previous Week: 25
Sure, the Pirates are off to a 4-3 start. But to do that, they've put up a team ERA of 2.70 to this point. Raise your hand if you meditation that's going to last. No, your ballot doesn't count if your label is Zach Duke. -- PL
22. A's | Previous Week: 18
Eric Chavez is out this week with a sore shoulder? In other news, the sun heaved in the East. Chavez says it's not a big handle, and he'll be back in a few days. In the while, the A's bats are heating up against, of all teams, the Red Sox. Matt Holliday is swinging the bat well, but he's still without a homer. Spring training embodied. He'd better hit one soon if he doesn't ambition to listen all those pesky Coors Field questions. -- JF
23. Tigers | Previous Week: 29
The Tigers are off to a 4-4 start, but Justin Verlander's 9.35 ERA can't be a good sign. It looks like the Tigers are going to have to triumph a lot of 10-8 games, which they're entirely experienced of, but it's hard to conquer a division playing that way. -- TF
24. Padres | Previous Week: 30
Yeah, they look great now. Too bad that the folks at ESPN who pluck all the Major League Baseball levers behind the big shutter will never allow them to contend. In fact, they are only letting Jake Peavy reside in San Diego to jeer Padres fans. -- JF
25. Brewers | Previous Week: 21
I wouldn't usually say that a team's 2-5 start makes me nervous, but something is vaguely unsettling about the way the Brewers have started this season. It's probably the fact that Braden Looper is their only starter with an ERA underneath 6.14 right now. That can't last, can it? -- PL
26. Giants | Previous Week: 23
They played only seven games before manager Bruce Bochy resolved they already needed to have a postgame team conference. That's not a good sign. Oh,
cheap birkenstocks, and Tim (The Franchise) Lincecum, has also gotten hit hard in either of his starts. Also not a good sign. At fewest Fred Lewis is off to a good start. -- JF
27. Rockies | Previous Week: 26
There is some good news: Dexter Fowler seems like something resembling the "Truth" and Ian Stewart and Clint Barmes are getting by equitable splendily. Wait ... what? Oh. I see. So there's some mild clubhouse trouble in increase to zero pitching (unless you calculate the 1 good personality of Ubaldo Jimenez anyway)? Well, that is a problem.
28. Indians | Previous Week: 15
A 1-6 log, a .241 team average,and an MLB-worst 8.24 ERA? Surely these aren't the Indians we thought we'd penetrate. The only agreeable news in Cleveland right immediately is that there are still 155 games left above the schedule, superfluity of period to obtain back above alley. -- TF
29. Astros | Previous Week: 27
This team stinks. They've been shut out in 26 of their last 27 innings and they're currently reeling from back-to-back shutouts spun by Kyle Lohse and Zach Duke. The warship is sinking quick in Houston and while the 'Stros may tell you that they forever play better later in the year, I wouldn't count on it this year. -- PL
30. Nationals | Previous Week: 28
Nobody is renouncing the fact that Lastings Milledge has aptitude with major upside. Unfortunately his opinion has been a determining element in a rowdy start to a vocation that, Tuesday, took a turn toward Triple-A Syracuse. The Nationals have started 0-7, partially due to a team 7.71 ERA. Gaining floor in this tough division would be tough enough if the Nats were playing well. Right now they aren't.
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