Stotle’s added a new feature which he’s asked me to help out with. Going forward, I will publish a weekly power ranking for all 14 AL teams, including my year-to-date favorites for the AL MVP, Cy Young, and Rookie of the Year awards. Without further ado, here are the power rankings for the week ended May 16, 2007.
AL Power Rankings (May 16, 2007)
Team Name/Record/This Week/Last Week/Comments
Red Sox/26-12/1/-/Steamrolling everyone in their sight with the best overall pitching in the AL (T1 BAA, 2nd in WHIP, 4th in QS).
Tigers/24-14/2/-/Pitching not as good as in ‘06, but offense is better with early 2007 MVP candidate Magglio raking.
Indians/22-14/3/-/CC Sabathia’s on fire and the team is hot, even though Sizemore and Hafner aren’t.
A’s/20-18/4/-/Dan Haren is now in the conversation for league’s best pitcher and A’s have given up fewest runs in the bigs.
Angels/22-18/5/-/Winning with smoke and mirrors. The young kids are helping…Ervin Santana isn’t.
Yankees/17-19/6/-/Can’t catch a break, but still leading the AL in RS and have one of the best RS-RA differentials in the league.
Twins/18-20/7/-/Haven’t played their best ball; seriously, did anyone think Carlos Silva would have a lower ERA than Johan?
White Sox/18-16/8/-/The offense has aged considerably since 2006: Konerko and Dye are both hitting .200 for the year.
Orioles/18-22/9/-/Chris Ray has blown saves in spectacular fashion but Bedard and Cabrera are definitely coming around in ‘07.
Mariners/18-16/10/-/More smoke and mirrors. How does this team score any runs?
Blue Jays/17-22/11/-/Troy Glaus and Jeremy Accardo are the only bright spots in a disappointing season thus far.
Devil Rays/16-22/12/-/BJ Upton’s looking like he wants the RoY award and James Shields is pitching like Kazmir was supposed to.
Rangers/15-24/13/-/No one expected the pitching to be good, but the offense hasn’t been anything to write home about either.
Royals/13-27/14/-/At least Gil Meche has been worth the money…
AL MVP: Magglio Ordonez, Tigers (.343/.431/.657, 8 HR, 37 RBI, 19 2B)
AL Cy Young: Josh Beckett, Red Sox (7-0, 2.66 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 8.34 K/9)
AL RoY: BJ Upton, Devil Rays (.331/.401/.583, 7 HR, 25 RBI, 7 SB)
AL Power Rankings (May 16, 2007)
Team Name/Record/This Week/Last Week/Comments
Red Sox/26-12/1/-/Steamrolling everyone in their sight with the best overall pitching in the AL (T1 BAA, 2nd in WHIP, 4th in QS).
Tigers/24-14/2/-/Pitching not as good as in ‘06, but offense is better with early 2007 MVP candidate Magglio raking.
Indians/22-14/3/-/CC Sabathia’s on fire and the team is hot, even though Sizemore and Hafner aren’t.
A’s/20-18/4/-/Dan Haren is now in the conversation for league’s best pitcher and A’s have given up fewest runs in the bigs.
Angels/22-18/5/-/Winning with smoke and mirrors. The young kids are helping…Ervin Santana isn’t.
Yankees/17-19/6/-/Can’t catch a break, but still leading the AL in RS and have one of the best RS-RA differentials in the league.
Twins/18-20/7/-/Haven’t played their best ball; seriously, did anyone think Carlos Silva would have a lower ERA than Johan?
White Sox/18-16/8/-/The offense has aged considerably since 2006: Konerko and Dye are both hitting .200 for the year.
Orioles/18-22/9/-/Chris Ray has blown saves in spectacular fashion but Bedard and Cabrera are definitely coming around in ‘07.
Mariners/18-16/10/-/More smoke and mirrors. How does this team score any runs?
Blue Jays/17-22/11/-/Troy Glaus and Jeremy Accardo are the only bright spots in a disappointing season thus far.
Devil Rays/16-22/12/-/BJ Upton’s looking like he wants the RoY award and James Shields is pitching like Kazmir was supposed to.
Rangers/15-24/13/-/No one expected the pitching to be good, but the offense hasn’t been anything to write home about either.
Royals/13-27/14/-/At least Gil Meche has been worth the money…
AL MVP: Magglio Ordonez, Tigers (.343/.431/.657, 8 HR, 37 RBI, 19 2B)
AL Cy Young: Josh Beckett, Red Sox (7-0, 2.66 ERA, 1.02 WHIP, 8.34 K/9)
AL RoY: BJ Upton, Devil Rays (.331/.401/.583, 7 HR, 25 RBI, 7 SB)
1 comment:
Pretty much agree on all counts. With the sweep of Baltimore, I might consider swapping Toronto and the O's. Mags has been great for the Tigers, who are doing well to keep pace with the Indians (the AL East and NL Central should take note -- the longer the season goes, the harder it will be to catch the Sox and Brew Crew).
As nicely as Meche has performed, I have the feeling that KC fans would prefer Alex Gordon be the one who was tearing it up early. I still think he will figure things out -- too much raw talent not to -- but two weeks at AAA might not be a bad idea.
NL Power Rankings up tomorrow!
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