The Good Phight: Jonk: Patty the batty

Speaking of Burrell’s hammering pants…he’s been on a tear.

Here is something else to chew on, especially for the Burrell haters out there.  The Phils have 4 players in the top 23 in OPS (Utley, Howard, Rowand and Burrell).  Florida has 2 (Cabrera and Ramirez).  The Yankees have 2 (ARod and Posada).  Detroit has 3 (Ordonez, Granderson and Sheffield).  St. Louis has 2 (Pujols and Duncan).  Atlanta has 2 (Chipper and newly acquired Teixeira).  Of the 23 teams, 15 are on 6 teams.  That leaves 9 other teams fielding a player who is having a better year than Burrell (if the math doesn’t add up it is because Burrell and Rowand share 23rd AND 24th places).

...Yeap, you read it right.  We can nit pick a bit on the numbers, but you get my point.  Yeah, THAT Pat Burrell.  He’d be leading FIFTEEN teams in offense at this point of the year.  He’d be their BIG gun, their GOTO man, their HOT STUD.  The concept is mind boggling based on how he was at the end of June.