Junior Caminero collected his 300th hit tonight, his 9th HR in his last 8 games
He's trending to be the 6th player in MLB history to have 300+ hits, 75+ HR, and fewer than 240 Ks before turning 23-years-old
Mel Ott
Al Kaline
Jimmie Foxx
Ted Williams
Bob Horner
Junior Caminero
The fascinating and unfortunate subtext of MLB’s bargaining posture for decades now is this:
They are comfortable shrinking baseball, the sport, in exchange for further solidifying the institutional power of Major League Baseball, the corporation
This is all so familiar. The proposal of a salary cap. The feeling of impending doom. It's like 1994 all over again, and while this year's World Series won't be lost to a labor war, much of baseball's momentum will be if the game is treated the same way it was three decades ago.
Win or lose I just want to watch @RaysBaseball play a clean game. Dunn starting over Carson is a little ridiculous . It sends a horrible message when you are basically doing to him what you did with Mead last season and we see what Curtis is doing now.
At 25, Kyler Fedko hit .258/.367/.487 with 28 homers and a 120/79 K/BB between AA/AAA in 130 games.
The Twins left him Rule 5 Draft eligible and he somehow went unclaimed.
Now in 42 games at Triple-A as a 26 year old, he's batting .294/.386/.608 with 11 HR, and has kept his K% near flat.
He plays all three outfield positions, and first base, while being right handed.
If he were on the 40-man roster, he'd have been up weeks ago. It's crazy the Twins aren't finding a way to make it happen.