1. Los Angeles Angels Douglas Benton leaves for one week to bring you his MLB draft coverage and RealGM slides a new team into the number one slot. John Lackey has been every bit as dominant and impressive as Josh Beckett, while Kelvim Escobar has out-pitched Daisuke Matsuzaka and I?ll definitely take Bartolo Colon, Jered Weaver and Ervin Santana over Curt Schilling, Time Wakefield and Julian Tavarez. 2. Boston Red Sox If someone said Mike Lowell would have more homers than David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez at this point and they would be 10 games up in the AL East during the first week of May, would you have believed them? 3. New York Mets (35-20): The Mets are position much better than they thought they would be without Pedro and injuries to Alou, Valentin and Green.