Baseball Notes

Phil Gurnee ♦ June 30, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

The Indians have won twelve in a row to take a six-game lead over the World Champion Royals. Once Carlos Carrasco rejoined the team on June 2nd, the team has taken off with a rotation of Kluber / Salazar / Carrasco / Bauer / Tomlin giving teams fits.

Kendry Morales shook off a horrendous early season slump and has been the best hitter in baseball over the last fourteen days with a triple stat line of .548 / .591 / .846. He has three home runs and thirteen RBI.  On June 16th, Morales had an OPS of .603. On June 29th, that OPS has risen to .731.

Jack Lamb and Yasmany Tomas have heated up for the Diamondbacks, combining for eleven home runs in their past 105 plate appearances.  Peter O’Brien also has four home runs in his last 57 plate appearances, but for O’Brien that is his only trick. He is 7 for 57 since being called up. If your only going to have one trick it might as will be the long ball.

Uber prospect Tim Anderson has struck out 23 times in his last 57 plate appearances.

Yadier Molina leads the all-star voting for NL catchers but he won’t be going into the game in high gear. Yadier has six hits, all singles in his last 39 plate appearances, with only one walk.

Howie Kendrick now has 94 plate appearances as a left fielder and has yet to drive in anyone but himself.

A.J. Ellis has scored one run since May 1st in 77 plate appearances

Corey Seager has a 12 game hitting streak with 20 hits, 8 doubles, 1 triple, 1 home run, but only two runs batted in. Probably because Chase Utley has OBP of only .286 in June.