By Darryl Reina
With a quarter of the 2006 MLB season already played, it's time to look at which player's are for real. Does your favorite player appear in this week's RealGM.com Player Rankings Top 25? Take a look!
This Week (Last Week)
1.(1.) Albert Pujols: Baseball's most productive player is hitting HR's at a record pace (with 23 to date). He already has 57 RBI's. Pujols has also raised his batting average to .323.
2.(2.) David Ortiz: The Red Sox DH has 14 HR's and 42 RBI's for the first-place Red Sox.
3.(5.) Derek Jeter: Jeter has been consistent at the plate this season for the NYY and is currently hitting .348. On Friday, he picked up his 2,000th hit.
4.(8.) Casey Blake: Blake is hitting a hot .354 for the Indians.
5.(6.) Michael Young: The Texas SS has raised his average this week to .328.
6.(3.) Miquel Tejada: The veteran SS is hitting .333 with 63 hits for the Orioles.
7.(10.) Travis Hafner: The Indians DH leads the AL in runs scored with 43.
8.(HM) Alex Rios: Rios leads MLB with a .357 batting average and jumps into our Top 10.
9.(HM) Jose Vidro: Vidro leads the NL with a .347 average and moves all the way to #9.
10.(7.) Vladamir Guerrero: Guerrero and the Angels have been struggling a bit this week.
11.(12.) Alex Rodriquez
12.(4.) Vernon Wells
13.(11.) Paul Konerko
14.(21.) Manny Ramirez
15.(13.) Andruw Jones
16.(HM) Jim Thome
17.(18.) Jonathan Papelbon
18.(17.) Curt Schilling
19.(16.) Pedro Martinez
20.(15.) Miquel Cabrera
21.(19.) Shea Hillenbrand
22.(20.) Lance Berkman
23.(14.) Chris Carpenter
24.(NL) Ichiro Suzuki
25.(NL David Wright
Honorable Mention: Josh Beckett, Scott Kasmir, Kenny Rogers, Mark Buehrle, Victor Martinez, Joe Maurer, A.J. Pierzynski, Eric Brynes, Tom Glavine, Mark Mulder, Bronson Arroyo, Freddy Garcia, Johnny Damon, Roy Oswalt, Brian McCann, Magglio Ordonez, Eric Chavez, Nick Swisher, Shawn Green, Edgar Renteria, Matt Holiday, Johan Santana, Brad Hawpe, Jonny Gomes, Hanley Ramirez, Brandon Webb, Omar Vizquel, Jason Schmidt, and Carlos Delgado.






