Nelson Cruz has more homers in five games last week than the
Twins, Brewers, Marlins, Cardinals, and Indians each have all season.
The Yankees’ lineup on April 14: Jacoby Ellsbury, CF; Chase
Headley, 3B; Carlos Beltran, RF; Mark Teixeira, 1B; Brian McCann, C; Garrett Jones, DH; Stephen Drew, 2B; Chris Young, LF; Didi Gregorius, SS. That
includes one player from the team two years ago, and that was Mark Teixeira,
who played most of that season for the Disabled List.
Aaron Harang is pitching in his 14th season in
the Majors. He’s won 123 games, earned 23 pitching wins against replacement,
collected $60 million and hit like a girl. His .091/.100/.107 includes four
walks and 278 strikeouts. In about a season’s worth of at-bats he has cost his
teams four losses at the plate.
With his first home run of the season, and the 155th
of his six-year career, Giancarlo Stanton became the career leader for the
Florida Marlins, passing Dan Uggla. That’s the fewest to lead any franchise,
but it won’t be for long. Once Stanton reaches 164, he will pass San Diego’s
all-time leader, Nate Colbert. The only other active team leader is Evan
Longoria with 185 for Tampa Bay.
On April 17, Mike Trout became the youngest player to 100
home runs and 100 steals, breaking Alex Rodriguez’s record by two months. Trout
is more than three months shy of his 24th birthday. The list of
players to 100 homers faster than Trout – 10 in all – includes six Hall of
Famers, one HOF-worthy (ARod), one future HOFer (Giancarlo Stanton) and two
good players -- Tony Conigliaro and Andruw Jones. And hitting home runs isn’t
Trout’s signature skill.
Diamondback hurler Josh Collmenter might want to retire now.
He became the first pitcher to complete a game in 2015 with a four-hit whitewashing
of the defending champs last night. He also threw the first shutout in baseball
this year. He also piled up three hits, a run scored and an RBI.
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