WRIGLEYVILLE POWER RANKINGS #3

Salem takes over the top spot from Burlington and Charlotte makes a run into the top 12 this week...

Rank	Team	Record	Last Week	Comments
1	Salem	43-18	2	Finally wrangle the top spot from Burlington. Joakim Quantinilla (1.135 OPS) is in full beast mode
2	Burlington	40-20	1	Kyle Romero (.314/.356/1.034) is having his best season
3	Arizona	42-19	3	RP Benji Martin (43.2 ip, 1.85 era, 1.03 whip) is having a nice bounceback season after a poor S22
4	Cincinnati	38-22	5	Hate to see a player of Yannick Early's talent go down for the season
5	Helena	37-24	6	Victor Paulino has been very good out of the pen for Helena
6	Austin	38-23	13	Damaso Gardal (24 HR) is on his way to another 50+ homer season
7	Madison	38-23	8	Esteban Guzman with a 1.136 OPS is looking real good
8	Jackson	36-25	4	3.50 team ERA is great but .241 team BA isn't going to get it done
9	New Britain	36-24	12	Congrats to Miguel Blanco for his 100th victory on the July 16th! Hasn't allowed a run in his last three starts (24 ip)
10	Salt Lake City	37-23	10	Quickly becoming a darkhorse NL WS contender with its pitching staff
11	Charlotte	33-27	20	Did rumors of the manager being fired light a fire under this group?
12	Syracuse	28-32	9	Andres Borbon has a 7.23 ERA since his trade to Syracuse
13	Fargo	32-28	11	Emmanuel Soto (.352/.397/.968) might be the best hitting 2b in the league this season
14	Louisville	32-29	7	Big Bob Neugebauer (9HR) is due to go on a homer streak at some point
15	Washington DC	30-31	17	5-55 team record at AAA is scary for a team needing some reinforcements
16	Scottsdale	33-27	15	Peter Okajima is looking to repeat as league MVP
17	Milwaukee	28-33	16	Sal Butcher is 8-9 in save opportunities
18	Colorado Springs	31-29	21	Josh Stuart (.340/.426/1.096) is making the future look bright in CS
19	Pittsburgh	30-31	14	Season just got worse for Carlos Gomez has he struggled offensively and then had a major injury
20	Chicago Bleacher Bums	29-32	22	Hick Boucher has 1 bb in 21 ip
21	Chicago Black Sox	24-36	28	Piper is piping hot again with 5 HR's and 12 RBI's in his last 10 games
22	Cheyenne	27-34	23	When will a contender pay up for Ricky Mann (21 HR, 71 RBI's)
23	Jacksonville	26-35	19	Aaron Wells (2.76 ERA, 1.15 WHIP) is keeping the ball in the park this season (4HR allowed)
24	Santa Fe	27-33	24	Will this team get hot or will we see a Miami Marlins-like sell off of the vets?
25	Minnesota	28-32	18	Speedy Pascual Perez with 17 sb's already
26	Boston	23-38	26	20yr old closer Alex Olivares is becoming tougher to hit with each outing
27	Trenton	23-38	31	RP Wily Mo Miller could be a nice trade chip
28	San Francisco	21-39	25	148 pitches for Tim Lincecum in his no-no? Ouch!
29	Little Rock	20-40	27	Mixed results (8-11) with the Alex Outman closer experiment.
30	Tampa Bay	20-41	32	At least the weather is bearable in Tampa?
31	San Juan	20-41	30	Juan Parra is starting to warm up (13/39, 2 HR, 7 RBI's) in the last ten games
32	Charleston	19-42	29	.238 team batting average and 5.89 team ERA make for a long season