It's all about the White Sox

Originally Published: May 11, 2005

The White Sox are the crown jewel once again as they remain in the top spot of the rankings.

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POWER RANKINGS
1. Chicago White Sox: Stat of the week: Jose Contreras has given up only one hit to opposing cleanup hitters.
2. Atlanta Braves: Adam LaRoche has more RBI than Carlos Delgado and Todd Helton. And he makes only $337,500.
3. Baltimore Orioles: Daniel Cabrera hit 100 mph on the radar gun and put his curve over the plate in his last start. Let's see him do it again.
4. St. Louis Cardinals: Cards have the luxury of giving Scott Rolen as much rest as he needs with his injured shoulder in the weakened NL Central.
5. Los Angeles Dodgers: We've seen these Hee Seop Choi streaks before and we're still not believers. He's still hitting just .143 against lefties.
6. Minnesota Twins: With all due respect to Mark Teixeira, Richie Sexson and Paul Konerko, Justin Morneau is the AL's best first baseman.
7. Florida Marlins: Good stat from the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel: Marlins have outscored opponents 75-31 from the sixth inning on.
8. Los Angeles Angels: Only the Royals have a worse on-base percentage (.297) than the Angels. Mike Scioscia isn't worried though.
9. Boston Red Sox: The Sox have to love what they've gotten out of Matt Clement of late: 14 innings pitched and one earned run allowed in his last two starts.
10. Washington Nationals: Chad Cordero has been lights out thus far: He's allowed just one earned run in 15 appearances.
11. Arizona Diamondbacks: Troy Glaus, who already has 10 home runs, is living up to the investment the D-Backs made in him.
$Rangers$ 12. Texas Rangers: David Dellucci is our new favorite player in the big leagues. Gotta love this guy!
13. New York Yankees: Yanks never hesitate to send struggling pitchers to Tampa, why not Giambi? He and McGriff can hit together.
14. New York Mets: The good: Pedro Martinez is 4-1, 3.06. The bad: Tom Glavine is 1-4, 6.87. Make that awful for Glavine.
15. San Diego Padres: Ryan Klesko has as many homers (nine, in 32 games) this season as he had all of last year (nine, in 127 games).
16. Toronto Blue Jays: A tip of our cap to Gregg Zaun. Here's hoping he makes a full recovery from the concussion he suffered, and returns to action ASAP.
17. Philadelphia Phillies: Can Vicente Padilla (0-4, 9.74 in five starts) get any worse? The Phils better hope not.
18. Milwaukee Brewers: Anyone notice that Lyle Overbay has a higher OPS (second overall) than Albert Pujols?
19. Detroit Tigers: Prospect alert: Justin Verlander with 43 K's in 36 IP; Brent Clevlen hitting .328 with 33 RBI at Class A Lakeland.
20. San Francisco Giants: There are few positives in San Fran, with the latest negative being a strained right shoulder for Jason Schmidt.
21. Chicago Cubs: The Cubs lead the NL with 45 home runs, but are just tied for eighth in the league in runs scored (150).
22. Oakland Athletics: Mark Kotsay has the most career assists (94) of any outfielder since 1998.
23. Pittsburgh Pirates: You must hand it to the Bucs for just finishing up a 7-3 road trip, and nowhave a somewhat respectable 15-18 record.
24. Seattle Mariners: The M's are an awful 1-9 in May, during which time Adrian Beltre has just four extra-base hits in 40 at-bats.
25. Houston Astros: George Steinbrenner would give up his right arm, or better yet Brian Cashman's, to get Roger Clemens back in the Bronx.
26. Cleveland Indians: Aaron Boone is hitting 72 points below his listed weight of 200 pounds. Ugly, very ugly!
27. Cincinnati Reds: You could've predicted this: Eric Milton has allowed the most homers (13) of any pitcher in the majors thus far.
28. Tampa Bay Devil Rays: No home runs from the cleanup spot as of May 11. Time to move Jorge Cantu up in the order.
29. Colorado Rockies: Rockies have an NL-worst 22 losses, but half of those defeats have come by two or fewer runs.
30. Kansas City Royals: George Brett, Frank White and Larry Bowa are mentioned as managerial candidates. We'd like to nominate Bobby V.