Corey Seager holding court

Phil Gurnee ♦ June 6, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

Five days ago Corey Seager had hit nine home runs and was just about to crack the LAD leaderboard for home runs by a shortstop. Since then, Corey blasted five more home runs and is poised to break all sorts of records this June. For now he can be satisfied with having the fourth most home runs by any LAD SS ever.

Player	HR	Year	Age	PA	SLG	OPS
Hanley Ramirez	20	2013	29	336	0.638	1.040
Don Zimmer	17	1958	27	495	0.415	0.720
Rafael Furcal	15	2006	28	736	0.445	0.814
Corey Seager	14	2016	22	249	0.533	0.874
Kevin Elster	14	2000	35	259	0.455	0.796
Hanley Ramirez	13	2014	30	512	0.448	0.817
Jimmy Rollins	13	2015	36	563	0.358	0.643
Hanley Ramirez	10	2012	28	272	0.450	0.774
Greg Gagne	10	1996	34	487	0.364	0.698

Since Corey now has double-digit home runs, this would be a good time to add the LAD rookie home run leaderboard. This leaderboard includes every LAD rookie who ever had double digit home runs.  A list dominated by Mike Piazza, and last years rookie, Joc Pederson. Twenty six players have hit at least ten home runs as a LAD rookie. Many of them were my favorite players so I think I’ll write about each player that Corey passes over the next few months. He just tied Bill Sudakis,  and with his next home run will tie Ron Cey and James Loney.  A few years ago I wrote about Bill Sudakis and the impact he had on me during his Sept callup. 

Corey blew by Jim Lefebvre and Willie Davis so fast I had nothing prepared, but I’ll get to them soon. UPDATE – Joe Ferguson and Mike Marshall were removed from the original list. David Young of TBLA did some research and even though Baseball Reference has them listed as Rookies in 1973 and 1983 they were not rookies.

Player	HR	Year	Age	PA	OPS	Pos
Mike Piazza (RoY-1st)	35	1993	24	602	0.932	C
Joc Pederson	26	2015	23	585	0.763	CF
Frank Howard (RoY-1st)	23	1960	23	487	0.784	OF
Eric Karros (RoY-1st)	20	1992	24	589	0.73	1B
Greg Brock (RoY-7th)	20	1983	26	543	0.738	1B
Yasiel Puig (RoY-2nd)	19	2013	22	432	0.925	OF
Don Demeter	18	1959	24	401	0.731	OF
Billy Grabarkewitz	17	1970	24	640	0.852	SS/3B
Jayson Werth	16	2004	25	326	0.825	OF
Raul Mondesi (RoY-1st)	16	1994	23	454	0.849	OF
James Loney (RoY-6th)	15	2007	23	375	0.919	1B
Ron Cey (RoY-6th)	15	1973	25	595	0.723	3B
Corey Seager	14	2016	22	249	0.874	SS
Bill Sudakis	14	1969	23	507	0.678	3B
John Roseboro	14	1958	25	431	0.788	C
Matt Luke	12	1998	27	257	0.736	OF
Todd Hollandsworth (RoY-1st)	12	1996	23	526	0.785	OF
Jim Lefebvre (RoY-1st)	12	1965	23	631	0.706	2B
Willie Davis	12	1961	21	380	0.767	OF
Alex Guerrero	11	2015	28	230	0.695	OF
Andre Ethier (RoY-5th)	11	2006	24	441	0.842	OF
Tommy Davis (RoY-5th)	11	1960	21	374	0.728	OF
Russell Martin (RoY-9th)	10	2006	23	468	0.792	C
David Ross	10	2003	26	140	0.892	C

 

As always, thanks to baseball reference and their play index for all this information.