Angels Player Power Rankings - Week 20

RANK	PLAYER	CHANGE	COMMENTS
1		— 0 Last Week: 1	Mike Trout – Ho hum, just another week with a .519 OBP.
2		— 0 Last Week: 2	Jered Weaver – Jered Weaver might be the only person in the world who gets excited when he gets on a plane to go to Cleveland.
3		— 0 Last Week: 3	C.J. Wilson – Not the sharpest outing for C.J., but at least he showed some resolve and kept it together and avoided the big inning for once.
4		+3 Last Week: 7	Garrett Richards – Richards passed the test by turning in a quality start against Texas. Once again, so glad he spent most of the year in the bullpen.
5		+5 Last Week: 10	Kole Calhoun – If Calhoun keeps this up, it is going to make it a lot easier for Dipoto to trade Trumbo or Bourjos in the off-season. Or just to have Josh Hamilton "disappeared." Both are strong choices.

6		— 0 Last Week: 6	Erick Aybar – Once again ranked sixth because there is nobody better we could find.
7		+1 Last Week: 8	J.B. Shuck – There are some real roster construction concerns when you have to use someone with an ISO of .085 at designated hitter. Only 15 players in baseball have a lower ISO and 300+ plate appearances.
8		+1 Last Week: 9	Chris Iannetta – I'm pretty sure Texas stole another base off Iannetta while I was typing up this comment.
9		-4 Last Week: 5	Mark Trumbo – So… maybe Dipoto should get the Pirates back on the phone to see if they are still interested.
10		— 0 Last Week: n/a	Grant Green – So far so good for Dipoto's newest toy. Still, I am having a hard time getting excited about him. It's probably because I question his decision making skills upon seeing that he chose to wear Vernon Wells' old number.
11		+6 Last Week: 17	Dane De La Rosa – So this is where we are, huh? Dane De La Rosa, an off-season WTF acquisition who started the year in the minors and was demoted mid-season is now the closer.
12		+7 Last Week: 19	Kevin Jepsen – I'm kind of starting to like Jepsen again, but in that way you find yourself strangely attracted to a girl who is at best a 6 but she looks better to you because you are kind of drunk and she is surrounded by several of her friends who are grossly overweight trolls.
13		+2 Last Week: 15	Hank Conger – So Hank is back in the defensive doghouse despite the defensive metrics all saying that Hank is a solid backstop while Iannetta might be the worst in the majors. I will never figure out Scioscia.
14		-2 Last Week: 12	Nick Maronde – Maybe the walk problems that plagued Maronde in the minors aren't all cleared up after all.
15		-2 Last Week: 13	Chris Nelson – Can someone please explain to me what Scioscia is thinking letting Nelson bat fifth?
16		+4 Last Week: 20	J.C. Gutierrez – So wait, you're telling me that when a guy pitches for the fifth time in six days that he may not be as sharp as usual? You don't say.
17		-6 Last Week: 11	Josh Hamilton – Just once I'd like to be able to move Hamilton up in the rankings two weeks in a row. Well, there's always next year.
18		-4 Last Week: 14	Tommy Hanson – Would it be rude of the Angels just non-tendered Hanson now?
19		-3 Last Week: 16	Ernesto Frieri – One July 20th, Frieri's ERA was 2.76. As of today it is 4.69.
20		-2 Last Week: 18	Jerome Williams – The best reason for the Angels to not trade Jason Vargas is so that we don't have to deal with Jerome Williams being in the rotation the rest of the year.
21		— 0 Last Week: 21	Michael Kohn – Yay! Kohn didn't give up a homer this week!! What's that? He still allowed two runs? Oh. Well then.
22		-3 Last Week: 23	Collin Cowgill – The best contribution that Cowgill has made to the Angels was taking out Howie's knee so Grant Green could get playing time.
23		+4 Last Week: 22	Joe Blanton – I was actually kind of relieved that Blanton got roughed up in a relief outing this week. To think that he might've been an effective bullpen arm all along would've made me feel even worse about the Richards rotation/bullpen tango.
24	NO PICTURE AVAILABLE	— 0 Last Week: n/a	Buddy Boshers – Dipoto continues to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find viable relievers. Nothing personal, Buddy.
25		— 0 Last Week: 25	Tommy Field – Oh, he's still on the roster? I hadn't noticed.