The MBL

Ok, this time around, we're looking for a minimum of 250 points from an offensive player (that's a hitter, Mario) and 175 points from a pitcher. Here goes:

Hitters
Lance Berkman - formerly the property of the Rhody Coyotes for whom he racked up 329 points (plus whatever he gets me tonight before he hopefully leaves his game with a season-ending injury). He has slowed it down a bit over the past month or so, but he's still putting up some incredible numbers.

Chase Utley - Mario has no idea who this guy is or what position he plays, but he's keeping Coerced in the top half (or so) of this league with his 304 MVP-caliber points.

Ian Kinsler - speaking of being completely unaware, this guy has come out of nowhere for the team playing without a leader (The Stiffs). His 303 points has kept the captainless Stiffs ahead of the likes of dbarnetth, Ducky Boys, LT's Namedroppers, and until recently the general infantryman known as VA Express.

Josh Hamilton - the owner I expected the most from in terms of message board/blog participation has really let me down, but he's still the owner of this unbelievable reclamation project. Just as Josh has risen from the ashes, maybe DJ will emerge and become a part of this league. Should I tell him that dbarnetth is really Sina? Would that help?

Carlos Lee - the Bitches top scorer so far has racked up 283 points.

Nate McLouth - Another player excelling without leadership on Stiffy's team, McLouth has put up 270 points so far, giving Stiffy 2 of the top 6 players in our league. If only Stiffy were paying attention, imagine how happy he'd be :)

Ryan Braun - one of my favorite young players moved from 3B to the OF and still continues to rack up the points. He is HighHeat's top scorer and one of only two for this over-achieving first-place-in-spite-of-their-ownership team.

Grady Sizemore - he has scored 265 points already for GHoff which almost matches his batting average.

Hanley Ramirez - Hanley is happy to be enroute to the Rhody Coyotes as we speak. He's underachieved for the most part this season, but he's still the 9th top player and has been absolutely en fuego for the past month +. Once he joins the Coyotes and finds himself in the same lineup as Pujols, Pedroia, Longoria, and others, he should perform even better. So far he's racked up 262 points. I'll go out on a limb and put him in the top 5 overall by the next update (in August).

Jose Reyes - Death's spoiled little 4th-grader is putting up impressive numbers so far with a total of 261 points. Will he become more of a headcase and fall out of the top 10? Will he grow up a bit and become all that we expect of him? I'll be anxious to see.

Chipper Jones - the man who almost hit .400 (and then faded quickly) finds himself looking up at the top 10, but still the owner of enough points (259) to keep him in the discussion. Abs needs to swing by Turner Field with a rib basket or something to get him back on track.

Adrian Gonzalez - Softened Stools only player on the list has 252 points, enough for 12th overall.

Brandon Phillips - One of three guys traded for Bartolo Colon several years ago (along with Grady Sizemore and Cliff Lee), he's doing quite nicely for 86's Pikers by earning a solid 251 points so far.

Dustin Pedroia - The second-highest scoring Coyote so far has been unstoppable at the plate this month. I'd love to see him move up even further, but how can he keep up this torrid pace? If I told you a month ago that he'd be outscoring Pujols and Quentin, would you have believed me?

Pitchers
I'm too tired to type comments right now. Maybe I'll try to come up with something witty (or at least wordy) for these guys tomorrow. In the meantime, here's the list:
Roy Halladay - GHoff - 226 points
Tim Lincecum - Death's team - 215
Cole Hamels - VA Express - 207
Edinson Volquez - Southie Shuffle - 206
CC Sabathia - Milwaukee Brewe...errr, Chesapeak Monarchs - 203
Cliff Lee - HighHeat - 200
Ben Sheets - VA Express - 195
Ervin Santana - VA Express - 192 (how have he, Sheets, and Hamels not been traded away for DeRosa, Michael Barrett, and Julio Lugo yet by Jamie?
Johan Santana - Abs - 191
Brandon Webb - BigMikes Boyz - 188
Danny Haren - LT - 187
James Shields - Southie Shuffle - 179
Chad Billingsley - BigMike - 176
Javier Vazquez - Bobnoxious (yay, Dad!) - 175

The only teams not to be represented here are dbarnetth and Ducky Boys. Not surprisingly, they are two of the bottom three teams in the league. More surprisingly, neither of them is in last. The last place team has a player (Haren) on the list. I guess the rest of his team just sucks enough to drag Haren down.