Rather than doing power rankings, every Monday I will be highlighting the prior week in baseball by going through all 30 teams and seeing who has reason to feel up or down after the previous seven days. Consider this some kind of bipolar lens to the heart of a baseball team, so let's get to it...
Atlanta Braves: Up. D-Lowe and Hudson spun great outings, Chips is back.
Arizona Diamondbacks: Up. Two games without a bullpen implosion must feel good.
Baltimore Orioles: Way up. Sweep of the Rays and the debut of Zach Britton. Uh, yeah!
Boston Red Sox: Way down. The pitching staff was annihilated all weekend long in Texas.
Chicago Cubs: Down. Series loss to the lowly Pirates, say no more.
Chicago White Sox: Up. Quentin et al. look they are ready to mash big way this year.
Cleveland Indians: Down. Carmona got drilled opening day, second day attendance: 9,853.
Cincinnati Reds: Up. 2010's best NL offense hasn't lost any steam.
Colorado Rockies: Down. Jimenez's struggles to K anyone has to be of some concern.
Detroit Tigers: Up. Lost 2 of 3 to the Yanks but were right with them the whole way.
Florida Marlins: Down. Mike Stanton is missing games with a balky hammy.
Houston Astros: Down. Series sweep makes them the first victims of the Phillies super-rotation.
Kansas City Royals: Up. Took 3 of 4 in a close series with the Halos. A-Gord finally busted out yesterday, albeit against Kazmir (AAA pitcher).
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim: Down. For the exact opposite reasons listed above.
Los Angeles Dodgers: Up. Matt Kemp was in full superstar mode all weekend. Wow.
Milwaukee Brewers: Way down. Getting creamed by the Reds was not the statement they were looking for.
Minnesota Twins: Down. Were outscored 22-8 in Toronto this weekend. Only Boston had a worse weekend from a run differential standpoint.
New York Mets: Up. RA Dickey saved them from being down by (not) spinning a great start yesterday.
New York Yankees: Up. Teixeira is leading an offense that looked unstoppable all weekend.
Oakland Athletics: Down. Lost a series to the Mariners, say no more.
Philadelphia Phillies: Up. Did what they were supposed to do.
Pittsburgh Pirates: Up. Pedro Alvarez carried them to victory yesterday, Pirates faithful hoping to see much more of that.
San Diego Padres: Up. Thoroughly outplayed the Cards in all facets of the game.
San Francisco Giants: Down. This picture explains their weekend perfectly.
Seattle Mariners: Up. Ichiro obliterated Edgar's team records by smoking two pitches barely by the pitcher.
St. Louis Cardinals: Down. Cards lost their only brightspot from the weekend, Matt Holliday, to an appendectomy.
Tampa Bay Rays: Way down. Forget the sweep to O's, Longo is hitting the DL and they only managed 3 runs all weekend.
Texas Rangers: Way up. Biggest statement series of the young season thus far. Kinsler and Cruz both homered in every game.
Toronto Blue Jays: Up. Jose Bautista and friends continue to launch rockets.
Washington Nationals: Down. Weekend against the Braves showed how far this team has to go before being competitive.
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