Bulls

Joe Crede - 3B - (Chicago White Sox):  No sure thing to even be Chicago's starting third baseman by this time of the year, Crede has come back to have what would be, if he keeps up this rate, the best season of his career. After a stellar week last week, which saw him hit five HR and drive in 12 runs, Crede is hitting .286/14/41, with a .361 OBP and .549 SLG, making him one of the top-producing 3B in the league. Crede's stellar production this year has held off top prospect Josh Fields, who remains mired in AAA.

Jose Guillen - OF - (Kansas City Royals):  Nothing seemed to go right for the outfielder immediately after signing a huge contract with the Royals. Named in the Mitchell Report, Guillen had to serve a suspension, then got off to a horribly slow start, hitting .183/.220/.346 after April ended. Guillen has come back with a vengeance, however, upping his percentages to .293/.340/.487, and climbing into the leader board picture with eight HR and 30 RBI. Guillen seems to be the only Royal who is capable of producing any offense at the moment..

C.C. Sabathia - SP - (Cleveland Indians):  The Indians haven't been scoring runs, and Sabathia was giving up runs in droves, so things looked really, really bad for Sabathia in the early going. All of a sudden, though, Sabathia's arm woke up. After an April that saw his ERA at a very ugly 7.88, he put up a 2.44 ERA in May and a 2.40 ERA so far in June, while also throwing three complete games in the six weeks since April ended. Though the overall numbers still don't look that great (4-8, 4.34 ERA), he is beginning to show why he was one of the top drafted pitchers in the league..

Runners-up Bulls:  Nick Swisher - 1B/OF - (Chicago White Sox); Roy Oswalt - SP - (Houston Astros).

Bears

Albert Pujols - 1B - (St. Louis Cardinals):  He overcame an elbow injury and a lack of power early in the year to put himself back into the discussion as perhaps the best fantasy hitter in baseball. The numbers are hard to ignore: .347/16/42. However, Pujols couldn't overcome a calf injury, which will put him out of commission for about three weeks. It was expected that Pujols would have to go on the DL at some point this season; it was just unexpected that it was a calf injury that caused it to happen.

Sidney Ponson - SP - (Texas Rangers):  Ponson had seemingly come back from the dead to pitch well for the Rangers this year. After a couple of seasons in which it looked like his career might be over, Ponson was 4-1 with a 3.88 ERA this year, causing a lot of owners to pluck him from the waiver wire as a good injury replacement. However, getting dropped by your team is the easiest way to lose your fantasy value, and given the circumstances in which the Rangers dropped him (reportedly, attitude problems) and his poor peripherals (1.56 WHIP, 4 K/9 IP, 1.56 K/BB ratio), don't expect Ponson to land with another team anytime soon.

Mark Hendrickson - SP - (Florida Marlins):  After a couple of months that had some thinking that Hendrickson was finally fulfilling his potential, he came up with several bombs the last couple of weeks. He has gone from a 3.72 ERA in May 20th to a current season-worst 5.76 ERA. In his last four games, Hendrickson has given up 24 earned runs in 17 innings and is looking once again like the man who had an ERA above 5 entering this season.

Runners-up Bears: B.J. Ryan - RP - (Toronto Blue Jays); Derrek Lee - 1B - (Chicago Cubs)