Week 12 Hitters Power Poll: I Told You Alex Rios Would Pass All Of You

I tried to tell you last week, but you didn't want to listen.

I told you that Alex Rios would quietly pass everybody in the rankings, and that's just what he did. Sure, Paul Konerko got out of his funk, Adam Dunn stopped strikeout out every at bat, Alejandro De Aza woke up and A.J. Pierzynski started hitting bombs but it wasn't enough.

Nothing can stop Alex Rios right now.

Meet the new king.

RANK	PLAYER	POINTS	LW	+/-
1	Alex Rios	280	2	38
2	Paul Konerko	277	1	14
3	Alejandro De Aza	259	3	22
4	A.J. Pierzynski	257	5	22
5	Adam Dunn	256	3	19
6	Gordon Beckham	215	6	9
7	Alexei Ramirez	196	7	25
8	Dayan Viciedo	183	8	15
9	Orlando Hudson	55	9	4
10	Eduardo Escobar	36	11	8
11	Brent Morel	33	10	0
12	Brent Lillibridge	18	12	0
12	Kosuke Fukudome	18	12	0
12	Tyler Flowers	18	12	0
15	Kevin Youkilis	16	NA	16
16	Jordan Danks	9	15	2

Other than all the change in the top five there wasn't much movement anywhere else. Kevin Youkilis makes his Hitters Poll debut and Eduardo Escobar has passed Brent Morel, but other than that there isn't much to report.

There were quite a few points scored this week, though a lot of those points came in the game the Sox exploded for 14 runs against the Yankees and nearly as many came in the 12 run game against Minnesota.

While those games were nice, it would have been nicer to see those runs spread out a bit more, and no Jake Peavy isn't writing this post.

Last week's rankings can be found here.