The New DiamondbacKKKKKs

With the acquisition of Adam Dunn, the Diamondbacks will most likely have three players with over 160 strikeouts at the end of the season

Player	Current K	Projected K
Reynolds	147	202
Young	122	167
Dunn	120	165

No team has ever had more than one with this many K's

Dunn is having a better than average year for him regarding strikeouts. 165 strikouts would match his lowest total since 2003 when he fanned 126 times in only 116 games.

Now if the D'backs could acquire Jack Cust, there'd be a real breeze in the desert.

No HR in SF

The Giants are the only team without a player in double-digit Home Run total. (Rowand and Bowker are tied with 9)

They are dead-last in the majors in Home Runs

Does anyone miss Barry?

MLB Strikeout Leaders (Jul 8 2008)

	Ryan Howard	124
	CC Sabathia	123
	Tim Lincecum	122
	Edinson Vólquez	116

Another K Record?

It's clear that Ryan Howard is well on his way to breaking his own single season strikeout record from last season (currently projected: 224, 25 more than 2007 total)

There's an outside chance he can do something no other batter has ever done: Record more strikeouts as a batter than anyone records as a pitcher.
In 2007, 7 pitchers had more strikeouts than Howard's record-setting 199. As of now, only one does.
With his 4 K performance yesterday, Howard now has 101 strikeouts, only 4 fewer than the 105 batters that Edinson Volquez has struck out.

Also of interest, Chase Utley is the only batter with more home runs (22) than Brett Myers has allowed (20). And they are both on the Phillies. Imagine if Utley could bat against Myers?

Bengie Ball

I no longer joke about him being the slowest man in baseball (ever since I saw him ground into a triple play where he was out by 5 ft.)

Benjie Molina's last 10 games (as of May 29):
AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI AVG OBP SLG OPS
39 8 23 8 0 2 16 0.590 0.619 0.949 1.568

... raising his average from .267 to .339, and his slugging pct over 100 points from .415 to .534

And you know there are no infield hits in that bunch

Jim Beauchamp 1939 - 2007

For some reason I remember Jim Beauchamp as being a much better player than he was. Upon hearing of his death from leukemia, I looked up his stats and was surprised to see he only hit .231 in a 10 year career, with a total of 14 home runs. My memory of his playing days is stronger than it deserves to be since he spent time with my beloved Mets in my prime baseball fanatic days. I collected autographs of pit-stop Mets like Jim, Bill Sudakis, and Phil Hennigan.

The day that Jim Beauchamp got etched in my Mets memory bank was Aug. 21, 1972. That was Jim's birthday, and he hit two home runs. He only hit 5 total in his two seasons with the Mets, but I thought he had a lot more based on that summer day. I remember Ralph Kiner's call as the second one was leaving the yard: "going, going, going, happy birthday Jim Beauchamp!". On the post-game Kiner's Korner, Ralph asked him if he's ever hit 2 home runs on this birthday before ( a quick glance at the back of his baseball card would have shown how unlikely that was). Jim, in a shy, southern drawl, said "Nah, I may have hit one on my daughter's birthday in the minors"

You only had 181 at bats in a NY uniform, but you're always a Met. R.I.P. and Happy Birthday Jim Beauchamp!

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Ichiro 3000?

Ichiro has 1,592 hits in only 7 seasons . That's an average of over 227 hits per year! The only question on whether he'll reach the 3000 hit milestone is how long he'll be able to play. Since he didn't start playing in the major leagues until he was 28, he'll need to keep up his pace into his 40's to get the additional 1,408 hits needed. He currently has fewer hits than several other players his age (33), such as Jason Kendall, Shannon Stewart, and Bobby Abreau. Nobody's talking about Jason Kendall being a 3000 hit guy.

You should note that it took Pete Rose and Hank Aaron 9 seasons to have as many hits as Ichiro has in 7.

And when Pete Rose was Ichiro's current age, he went on to get 1,919 more hits

My prediction: hit #3000: May 2015

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