Philadelphia Phillies Power Rankings - 2012
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| WEEK | RECORD | RANK | COMMENT | |
| Week 8 | 21-21 | 14 | Young fireballer Jake Diekman has struck out six of the first 13 batters he's faced. A steady diet of punchouts from Diekman would go a long way to supplement a bullpen that can seemingly rely only on Jon Papelbon and Antonio Bastardo right now. -- Paul Boye: Crashburn Alley | |
| Week 7 | 16-19 | 19 | Chase Utley and Ryan Howard are still out indefinitely, and Hunter Pence would probably be better off if he hadn't shown up at all for 2012. But there is one rallying point through a month and a half of dreadful Phillies offense: Carlos Ruiz, whose 154 OPS+ would be outstanding for a corner outfielder, much less a good defensive catcher. -- Michael Baumann: Crashburn Alley | |
| Week 6 | 14-15 | 14 | It's been a breath of fresh air to watch the Phillies' offense score 5.71 runs per game in the past week, but leaving one of the best relievers in baseball on the bench to watch the opposing team celebrate on the field five separate times doesn't bode well for winning the close ones. Cole Hamels, with 44 strikeouts to six walks, continues to pencil in the zeroes on his next contract. -- Ryan Sommers: Crashburn Alley | |
| Week 5 | 10-12 | 11 | The Phillies will end April below .500. However, they are averaging fewer than 3.2 runs per game. From that perspective, being below .500 is not so bad. -- Bill Baer: Crashburn Alley | |
| Week 4 | 7-9 | 9 | The Phillies are on a similar pace -- record-wise -- to their 2008 championship club, but the two teams could not possibly feel more disparate. -- Paul Boye: Crashburn Alley | |
| Week 3 | 4-5 | 12 | The new low-impact offense is taking some getting used to, but the Phillies' run prevention is as good as it's ever been. Cliff Lee, Cole Hamels and Roy Halladay have combined for a cumulative K/BB ratio of 19 to 1, and when Laynce Nix and Ty Wigginton hit in the middle of your batting order, the starting pitching will need to be pretty good for the Phillies to repeat last season's success. -- Michael Baumann: Crashburn Alley | |
| Week 2 | 1-2 | 10 | In their first series of the season, the Phillies had some predictable problems with scoring, registering just six runs and dropping two of three games to the Pirates. On the bright side, they may have found a replacement for the recently traded Wilson Valdez: Freddy Galvis, who began the season 0-for-10 and grounded into two double plays. -- Ryan Sommers: Crashburn Alley | |
| Week 1 | 0-0 | 8 | Despite a rash of injuries, the Phillies are still the clear favorites in the NL East behind baseball's best starting rotation. -- Bill Baer: Crashburn Alley | |