Angels Player Power Rankings – Week 19

RANK	PLAYER	CHANGE	COMMENTS
1		— 0 Last Week: 1	Mike Trout – Just look at his slash line this week: .500/.719/.833. I mean, what can I even say about that?
2		— 0 Last Week: 2	Jered Weaver – Weaver has given up three earned runs or less in seven of his last eight starts.
3		— 0 Last Week: 3	C.J. Wilson – As usual, he had a rough go in Texas but at leas the bounced back nicely in his next start.
4		+2 Last Week: 6	Howie Kendrick – I was so mentally prepared for Howie to be traded that I feel like a kid whose parents were clearly headed for divorce but instead decided to give counseling one last shot.
5		-1 Last Week: 4	Mark Trumbo – He only had four hits this week, but three of them were homers. I guess that works.

6		+1 Last Week: 7	Erick Aybar – Erick Aybar has officially taken over from Alberto Callaspo as the Angel starter that I just can't come up with a comment for.
7		+6 Last Week: 13	Garrett Richards – It has only been two starts, but Richards has finally given the Halos some hope that the back of their 2014 rotation might not be a steaming pile.
8		+7 Last Week: 15	J.B. Shuck  – After making that good (not great) catch and somehow hitting a homer of his own, how can I not move him up?
9		+8 Last Week: 17	Chris Iannetta – Suddenly he is getting the bulk of playing time again. I'm pretty sure it takes double doctorate in psychology and predictive statistics in order to understand Mike Scioscia's catching rotation. I guess throwing out some runners helps, but the rest of the equation is a mystery.
10		— 0 Last Week: n/a	Kole Calhoun – Knock, knock! Who's there? The Angels kept Calhoun in the minors for four months.
11		+7 Last Week: 18	Josh Hamilton – An up week for Hamilton, but that has less to do with him and more to do with everyone else playing so poorly.
12		— 0 Last Week: n/a	Nick Maronde – It is only three appearances, but this go round has already gone much better for Maronde than his last tour with the team.
13		— 0 Last Week: n/a	Chris Nelson – I'm already pumped about people getting way overexcited about Nelson as a solution at third only to find out just how bad he really is.
14		-4 Last Week: 10	Tommy Hanson – I guess getting velocity back didn't fix everything after all.
15		-4 Last Week: 11	Hank Conger – Is it possible that Conger has seen his playing time reduced because of… offense? Does Scioscia do that?
16		-8 Last Week: 8	Ernesto Frieri – Ernesto insists he is a "warrior" who is going to "die standing up." I'd much rather he be a "quality reliever" who is going to "locate his fastball."
17		-5 Last Week: 12	Dane De La Rosa – Dane gets his shot at taking over as the setup man…  aaaaaaaand its gone.
18		+3 Last Week: 21	Jerome Williams – Too little, way, way, way too late Jerome.
19		— 0 Last Week: 19	Kevin Jepsen – You know how poorly the bullpen is performing when Jepsen isn't even close to the biggest problem.
20		+3 Last Week: 23	J.C. Gutierrez – Dane De La Rosa must be so relieved that J.C. has taken over as the Scioscia's new favorite reliever to completely overwork.
21		-5 Last Week: 16	Michael Kohn – This giving up a homer per week thing is getting a little old.
22		— 0 Last Week: 22	Joe Blanton – The amazing part about all the bullpen meltdown in the last two weeks is that Blanton had nothing to do with them.
23		-3 Last Week: 20	Collin Cowgill – I'm not so sure we need to so all that much more of Cowgill.
24		— 0 Last Week: n/a	Daniel Stange – I have no idea how to pronounce his last name and I kind of have the feeling that I'm never going to need to learn how.
25		-1 Last Week: 24	Tommy Field – This is how you don't take advantage of a rare opportunity to stick on a big league roster.

Dropped from rankings: Albert Pujols (sent to the glue factory), Scott Downs (traded for nothing), Alberto Callaspo (traded for something), Brad Hawpe (Dipoto finally realized he was useless)

Biggest Riser: Iannetta, up eight spots

Biggest Dropper: Frieri, down eight spots