Scott Van Slyke finally contributes to the 2016 Dodgers

♦ June 15, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

SVS has had a rough start to the 2016 season.  When Andre Ethier went down it was expected that SVS would take up the slack and possibly get full-time at bats but after just a few appearances, a back injury would sideline Scott until June.

Once activated in June, Scott sat on the bench and watched Howie Kendrick take most of the at bats in left field. Even when the Dodgers released Carl Crawford, Scott was finding it hard to get at bats. When he did get the few at bats he did nothing with them. He was even batting eighth behind several players in extended season long slumps.

Luckily for him, a left hander was finally on the mound for the game on Wednesday, and this time SVS did what he’s known for at Chase field. Pounding left handers. His three run blast was the difference in the game as the Dodgers won behind Clayton Kershaw 3 – 2.

During his career at Chase field SVS now has four home runs, second most in a ball park in his career. When I started this I actually thought Scott would have more than four home runs because of the damage he used to inflict upon Wade Miley but that was not the case. Only four home runs.

It was big blast that Kershaw and the Dodgers needed. Will Dave Roberts give SVS a shot against some RHP until Puig is ready? Probably not, but at least for one game, SVS clearly was the difference maker.

 

Dodgers have nine prospects on Rotowire updated top 200

♦ June 15, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

Rotowire is a baseball fantasy site, so these ranking do not reflect their possible future major league production,  but it does give an idea of how well stocked the Dodgers are in the farm system.

This particular top 200 was recently updated to reflect the influx of the 2016 draft class, which added twenty-six draftees’ to the top  200.

I feel a notable prospect that was missing is Brock Stewart. Frankie Montas is a tough rank until they find out if he can remain a starter or not.  Alvarez is ranked even though no one has even seen him pitch in North America in a professional game. Once they see him, he could move fast.

Any way this is simply for information purposes only and my opinions on these prospects are not reflected in the rotowire top 200 list.

  • Julio Urias – 4
  • Alex Verdugo – 34
  • Jose De Leon – 42
  • Willie Calhoun – 67
  • Grant Holmes – 70
  • Cody Bellinger – 90
  • Frankie Montas – 99
  • Yusniel Diaz – 102
  • Yadier Alveraz – 115

 

Ron Cey does Penguin walk

♦ June 15, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

Very few baseball players were defined by their nickname as Ron Cey was. He really did resemble a Penguin when he walked, but when he played the game he resembled the greatest third baseman in LAD history, and it is not even close.

The stats speak for themselves:

  • Most hits
  • Most home runs
  • Most doubles
  • Most runs batted in
  • Most runs scored
  • Most walks
  • Most everything

This table tells the story.

Name G PA R H 2B HR RBI BB IBB
Ron Cey 1481 6108 715 1378 223 228 842 765 85
Adrian Beltre 966 3818 456 949 176 147 510 286 32
Casey Blake 406 1608 197 366 75 49 192 153 17
Tim Wallach 388 1525 148 346 65 48 200 117 8
Todd Zeile 200 842 111 194 23 38 117 95 7
Bill Sudakis 291 1016 108 219 35 34 116 102 12
Jim Gilliam 1210 4894 630 1084 176 31 323 631 20
Juan Uribe 407 1391 125 334 68 28 155 80 7
Justin Turner 296 1000 124 258 57 28 125 85 3
Jeff Hamilton 416 1273 111 282 61 24 124 43 9
Wilson Betemit 139 385 41 78 15 19 50 49 3
Ken McMullen 234 549 34 119 16 16 74 38 4
Bill Madlock 166 618 63 158 22 15 82 46 4
Bob Bailey 221 737 45 146 17 12 67 78 8

Cumulatively he’s the best. But would you pick Ron Cey for a season over Todd Zeile? Adrian Beltre? Even Justin Turner? Maybe, but that is another article.

Name From To BA OBP SLG OPS Pos
Ron Cey 1971 1982 0.264 0.359 0.445 0.804 *5/H
Adrian Beltre 1998 2004 0.274 0.332 0.463 0.794 *5/H6
Casey Blake 2008 2011 0.26 0.338 0.431 0.768 *5/H374
Tim Wallach 1993 1996 0.251 0.312 0.409 0.721 *5/H39
Todd Zeile 1997 1998 0.265 0.352 0.454 0.806 *5/H3
Bill Sudakis 1968 1971 0.243 0.321 0.411 0.732 *5/H2739
Jim Gilliam 1958 1966 0.261 0.358 0.338 0.696 *54H7/938
Juan Uribe 2011 2015 0.26 0.306 0.381 0.687 *5/H463
Justin Turner 2014 2016 0.293 0.367 0.459 0.827 *5/H463D
Jeff Hamilton 1986 1991 0.234 0.263 0.349 0.612 *5/H6413
Wilson Betemit 2006 2007 0.236 0.332 0.455 0.787 *5/H649
Ken McMullen 1962 1975 0.237 0.291 0.369 0.66 *5H/3479
Bill Madlock 1985 1987 0.285 0.346 0.406 0.752 *5/H3
Bob Bailey 1967 1968 0.227 0.309 0.325 0.633 *5/H736

This table tells you that Ron Cey had a long and storied career, tallying up stat after stat. What it doesn’t tell you is why Ron Cey is dear to the heart of many a Dodger fan growing up in the 1970’s.

Clutch more or may not exist, but when one of your stars actually delivers in the clutch, that is a whole hell of a lot better than having to say “small sample size” when they fail.

The Penguin led the Dodgers every time they were in the NLCS, delivering an OPS far above his career norms.  The LAD went to the post season four times during his career. Each time the Dodgers made the World Series, the first three times it was very much because of Ron Cey who delivered the following OPS numbers in the NLCS.

  • 1974 – 1.109
  • 1977 – 1.015
  • 1978 – .951

Cey however, failed to put up big numbers in the World Series until 1981. Strangely in 1981, Cey had a poor NLCS, but made up for it by winning the World Series MVP along with Steve Yeager and Pedro Guerrero.

My favorite Ron Cey moment during his long career was the game winning home run he hit during my favorite regular season series. But that is also another article.

 

 

Bill Sudakis – always in my heart

♦ June 14, 2016 ♦ 1 Comment

Bill Sudakis was a power bat switch hitting 3rd baseman who arrived in Sept of 1968 with great fanfare. The 1968 Dodgers had an anemic offense, so anemic that Len Gabrielson would lead the team in home runs with a mere 10. That is not a typo, that has been one of the best baseball bar bets over the past fifty years.

Sudakis showed up and smashed three home runs in the month of Sept in just over one hundred plate appearances. That may not seem like a big deal, but it was as many or more home runs than the 1968 Dodger starting 1st baseman, 2nd baseman, and SS. It was only one less than the starting right fielder. In order that was Wes Parker, Paul Popovich, Zoilo Versalles, and Ron Fairly.

Sudakis had been a breath of fresh air to a moribund franchise, and fans looked forward to what Sudakis would do in his first full rookie season of 1969. Sudakis would set the franchise record for home runs by a LAD rookie infielder with fourteen, but for the most part his rookie season fell far short of expectations. His defense was also so bad at 3rd base he was converted to a catcher, and never would be a full-time player again.

His rookie season he amassed 507 plate appearances, after that, 311 would be his plate appearance high water mark. He would have some successful offensive seasons as a part-time player, putting up an OPS+ of 121 in 1970 and 132 in 1973 with Texas.  Sudakis could hit home runs when given the opportunity, and though he only hit 59 home runs in his career he would hit a home run every 29 plate appearances. I always felt the Sudakis was never given a fair shake after his rookie season failures. In his two best years he displayed solid power and plate discipline.  The reality might be if given more at bats he probably would not have been successful.  It would seem that early in his career he was a man without a position but the DH did come early enough for him and while he played some DH,  no one would ever make him their full-time DH.

Sudakis always remained one of my favorite players because he was the very first prospect I ever followed. He hit the first home run on TV I ever saw while watching the Dodgers on the game of the week in 1969.  He was part of the Dodgers Mod Squad of 1969 – 1972 but he wasn’t around for the success that Bill Russell and Willie Crawford saw with the team as they became a juggernaut starting in 1974.

Corey Seager keeping pace with Piazza

♦ June 14, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

The LAD offense continued to sputter last night but not Corey Seager who launched a massive home run to right center against ex – Dodger Grienke.  Legend has it that Grienke was pleased when the Dodgers drafted Seager, to bad he didn’t stick around to pitch with him behind him.

Seager’s 15th home run moved him up the LAD rookie leaderboard, passing Bill Sudakis and Johnny Roseboro. You can read a little about Bill Sudakis here.

Seager is now tied with one of the LAD all time greats in Ron Cey. The Dodgers have not always had a good 3rd baseman but from 1973 – 1981 they had a great one in Roy Cey.  It took Ron Cey in 1973 almost 600 plate appearances to hit those fifteen home runs. James Loney also hit fifteen home runs his rookie season, and it only took James 375 plate appearances for his fifteen.  Loney’s power surge his rookie season is what ended up frustrating so many Dodger fans as he never approached those home run per at bat numbers again. In Loney’s rookie year he averaged a home run every twenty-five plate appearances. For the rest of his career it was one home run every fifty-six plate appearances.  On a minor note, James Loney hit his 100th home run the other day. For a moment in time it did not look like Loney would get to that milestone as he had been released by Tampa, and was playing for the Padre AAA club when the Mets came calling.

Which made me wonder how many plate appearances did the leaderboard leader Mike Piazza need for his fifteen – 254 is the answer, so surprisingly Seager is almost on pace with Piazza.  Piazza had just finished a hot stretch with three home runs in three games. He would not hit his 16th home run until July 5th. Corey has more plate appearances right now than Mike did at the point they hit their 15th home runs, but Corey did it on June 14th, Mike didn’t do it until June 21st.  So in a way, Corey is actually a head of the pace of Piazza if you go by the schedule but behind if you go by plate appearances.

Next up for Seager are Jayson Werth and Raul Mondesi with 16. Good chance he ties them tonight.

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 15 2016 22 278 0.864 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

Arizona Diamondback Preview 06/13/2016

♦ June 13, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

The Diamondbacks went all in this winter much as the Padres did last year, and the results have been pretty much the same.  Padres were out of the race by the all-star game in 2015, and unless things change dramatically for the Diamondbacks that will be the same story in 2016 for them.

Much of the blame for the Diamondback collapse has been placed on the shoulders of Shelby Miller. Arizona traded a boatload for a barely above average pitcher but instead of at least getting that, they got the second worst pitcher of 2016.

Player ERA+ GS ERA IP H ER BB SO FIP
Alfredo Simon 45 11 9.11 52.1 76 53 27 37 7.18
Shelby Miller 61 10 7.09 45.2 56 36 29 30 6.62
Wily Peralta 62 13 6.68 66 97 49 27 42 5.57
Jake Peavy 67 13 5.83 66.1 78 43 21 51 4.14
Jeff Locke 74 12 5.38 72 76 43 27 37 5.24
Juan Nicasio 74 11 5.34 59 60 35 25 60 4.38
Matt Cain 76 10 5.2 53.2 64 31 13 38 4.47
Adam Wainwright 78 13 5.21 77.2 85 45 19 55 3.92
Chad Bettis 84 13 5.85 72.1 88 47 19 53 4.76

And yet, for some bizarre reason, I feel Shelby Miller is going to bounce back from his recent DL spell and pitch some of the best baseball of his career going forward.

Here in a nutshell is why the Diamondbacks are 28 – 37 instead of 38 – 28.

  • They lost AJ Pollock before he ever got to play in 2016 when he decided to slid into home plate head first.  It was not the first time he had made that mistake, and once again it cost him and teammates dearly.
  • His outfield roommate David Peralta missed twenty-five games. Upon his June 6th return he’s hit like he’s still on the DL.
  • Rubby De La Rosa who had shown growth,  hurt his elbow and is out until August
  • Grienke/Miller/Corbin were expected to give Arizona a solid big three but none of them have come close to expectations. Grienke was supposed to be the big ace but overall he’s simply been good. Miller as noted, has been the second worst pitcher in baseball (Alfredo Simon is number one)  who has been allowed to make at least ten starts. Corbin is barely pitching like a fifth starter instead of someone who is part of a big three.
  • Even Goldy can take some blame. The only offensive categories he’s leading the league in are walks, games, plate appearances. The slug% is starting to trend back up, but still sits well below his career slug% of .531 at .488.  For context, last year at this time, Goldy’s slug% was an astronomical .662.  For Arizona to be a contender they really need that Goldy to make up for the loss of Pollock.

This is what the Dodgers will be seeing over the next three games:

1st – Paul Goldschmidt – nine of his eleven home runs have come at home this year.  We all know he loves to hit home runs against the Dodgers.  Expect Goldy to hit at least two home runs this series.  Not having his best season to date, but still the best 1st baseman in the NL.

2nd – Jean Segura was crushing it in April with an .885 OPS, fell back to .708 in May, and has now dropped off the face of the diamond with a June OPS of  .578. Segura has yet to garner an XBH yet in June of 2016. He’s not just cold, he’s frigid.

SS – Nick Ahmed – at least Segura can boost of having been hot once. Ahmed may be one of the best defensive shortstops around, but he also can’t hit a lick.  Gazing upon his .597 OPS, I wondered how he ranks among futility hitters of the 21st century. . Here is what I found.  Not as bad as I thought he’d be. He’s bad (about 22nd worst),  but he’s not close to being the worst hitter of the 21st century. That must be a relief for him.

3rd – Jake Lamb is quietly having an excellent season.  Lamb has an OPS+ of 125. For context the great Nolan Arenado is at 134 and our Justin Turner is at 83. His eleven home runs ranks 4th among NL 3rd baseman.

C – Wellington Castillo had that bizarre year in 2015. In 2016 that honor goes to Chris Herrmann.  Herrmann has a current OPS of .916. His career OPS is .614, with most of that being done while a backup for the Twins. Come on, where did this come from?   The Diamondback catchers have the following OPS+ numbers, 104 and 138. Contrasting nicely with the excellent bat work being done by the Dodger catchers who tally in at 83 and 57.

RF – belongs once again to David Peralta.  Peralta was the Arizona clean up hitter until he got hurt. He missed over 20 games, but is now back in the lineup . Cept he stopped hitting and is doing little clean up these days. He’s only been back for six days and I’m sure he’ll got that sweet left-handed bat going but since he’s been back he has four hits and zero walks in eighteen plate appearances. Rusty he be.

CF – infielder Chris Owings gave it a shot but he’s now on the DL, so Atlanta Brave reject Michael Bourn is getting the gig.  I’ll say this about Bourn. He couldn’t make the roster of the worst team in baseball.  And now he’s starting in CF for the Diamondbacks. BUT, because baseball is baseball, it would not surprise me if Bourn outhits Ender Inciarte this season. He’s doing it right now, that is how bad Inciarte has been for the Braves.

RF – Yasmani Tomas – Much like the Dodgers Yazmani Grandal, neither have earned the right to use the nickname of Yaz.  Tomas was supposed to have some power, but has rarely showed it.  Good bet that he’ll end up losing this gig to Peter O’Brien in the not to distant future.  Tomas can hit a little, but not enough to justify giving him full-time at bats.

All Around Bench Guy – Brandon Drury  has played RF,LF, 2b, and 3b so far this year. He’s hit when he’s played. A valuable bench player.

Prospect to Watch – Peter O’Brien – man without a position. Has power but no place to play. His natural position was catcher but he’s not a catcher. 1st base is taken. He might be able to handle the outfield, but he’s probably a DH. But so is Tomas so what do you do?

SVS watches the Dodger offense do nothing

♦ June 13, 2016 ♦ 3 Comments

A rookie manager not only has to learn about his team and their strengths, the fans of the team get to learn the same about the rookie manager.

The one thing I’ve learned so far this year, is that David Roberts has a strange affinity for Howie Kendrick in LF. With Carl Crawford finally being purged from the LAD roster, Howie Kendrick is by far the worst defensive outfielder on the team. It is also very possible that Howie Kendrick is also the worst offensive outfielder on the team.

Howie Kendrick should still give the LAD plenty of value as someone who can spell Chase or Turner, or even take over for Chase when he suffers some type of injury, but it is hard to see how he offers any value in LF with SVS back on the roster.

Puig will be back sometime this week if he does not suffer any setbacks during his rehab outings, but until then,  this team could probably use Scott Van Slyke in the lineup. Not because SVS will change the offense, but he probably gives the team at the minimum the same offense in LF while providing much better defense. Yesterday Howie made a fine play going to his right and reaching as high as he could to snag a drive that appeared headed over his head. It made a nice highlight shot, but if SVS had been in the game, he would have aptly ambled over, and with his big paw simply snatched that shot without having to extend his arm over his head.

I could understand all this love for Howie if he was banging at the plate, but when you look at what Howie is doing you don’t see nothing. Nothing.  In April Howie probably had the worst month of his career, putting up an OPS of .333 in 55 plate appearances playing sparingly.  May saw some revitalization of his bat but it was short-lived. In June Howie has four singles. And that is it for the month.

Scott Van Slyke came back to the team on June 3rd. Since June 3rd SVS has garnered two starts and ten plate appearances. Yes, I’ll grant you he is hitless in those ten plate appearances but I’d rather see if he can get his bat going instead of watching to much of Howie Kendrick. Howie has started five games in LF since SVS came back, and Howie has all of one single in those five games.

I don’t get it.  He’s a life time infielder playing LF, and he can’t hit at all right now. You would think that when the team is struggling to score, you might try the big guy on the bench who is the only real left fielder on the team.

Trayce Thompson – Steal of the Deal

♦ June 8, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

With Andre hurt, Puig struggling, and Crawford now gone, it is a good thing the Dodgers pulled the trigger on the three-way trade that brought Thompson to the Dodgers. Frankie Montas was supposed to be the key to this deal and may still be, but right now Thompson has been the steal of the deal.  Given how moribund the Dodger offense has been, I can’t imagine what it would be without Trayce Thompson.

Cory Seager is getting most of the press for good reason, but his roommate Trayce Thompson is actually doing better work. Cory has all the home runs and a glittering OPS of .872 but Thompson has an OPS of .922 and it is Thompson who sits on the top of the NL Rookie OPS+ leaderboard.

Last night Thompson hit his second walk off of the year, but more surprisingly he hit it against a right hand pitcher. Coming into 2016 Thompson had shown the ability with the White Sox to hit left hand pitching but it was up in the air if he could hit right hand pitching well enough to be considered a full-time outfielder.  It is still early but Thompson is putting the big hurt on RHP so far in 2016.  In fact as of this moment Thompson has a consistent split against both RHP/LHP .

When I visited the Dodgers this spring, I mentioned on TBLA that Thompson was the best athlete I saw at camp. I think the only thing anyone can be disappointed about with Thompson is his less than stellar defense. He had a reputation as an above average outfielder, but with the eyes he seems average at best. Doesn’t get great jumps and his instincts seem a bit off.  But that is being trite.

Thompson has been great, so great I had to create a little National League Rookie leaderboard for him just to show how great.

Rookie NL Players with at least 100 at bats:

Player OPS+ PA Age Tm G HR RBI BB
Trayce Thompson 149 146 25 LAD 49 10 22 17
Corey Seager 137 257 22 LAD 59 14 35 22
Aledmys Diaz 135 211 25 STL 55 8 31 10
Trevor Story 111 253 23 COL 56 16 42 17
Jeremy Hazelbaker 108 128 28 STL 54 7 19 7
Brandon Drury 104 204 23 ARI 53 8 18 10
Mallex Smith 95 153 23 ATL 49 3 20 11
Tyler Goeddel 81 123 23 PHI 41 3 10 6
Ramon Flores 59 138 24 MIL 51 1 10 15
Tony Wolters 53 104 24 COL 31 0 11 12
Daniel Castro 17 121 23 ATL 40 0 4 6

 

 

Urias will be first LAD teen-ager to pitch at Dodger Stadium since Fernando

♦ June 7, 2016 ♦ Leave a comment

While most of the hoopla has gone out of the fact that the Dodgers have a 19-year-old pitching in their rotation,  it is still an extremely rare event. Just about every time he takes the mound he breaks ground that hasn’t been trod on in decades.

No LAD teen-ager as has pitched at Dodger Stadium since Fernando did it back in Sept of 1980. For those who don’t remember the prelude to Fernandomania, Fernando was a key component in one of the greatest regular season series in the history of the ravine.

The Houston Astros back in the day were in the NL West and held a three game lead on the Dodgers as both teams entered the final series for 1980.   Jon Weisman devotes a chapter of this heralded series in his book  100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die . Also you can find a chapter about Fernandomania. 

It was a three games at home for the Dodgers and they needed to win every game to force a play off game on Monday.

Which they did, with each game bringing a new hero. Garvey / Cey / Ferguson were the offensive hero’s but the unsung hero during this stretch was the teen-aged Fernando who would pitch in relief in two of the three games. Fernando would throw a combined four innings of shutout relief in two one run games. Alas it was all for naught, as Dave Goltz gave away the play off game, but for anyone who was around in 1980, they all remember the epic series that got the Dodgers into that play off game.

Decades ago a LAD Mexican teen-ager stood tall on the mound at Dodger Stadium. I’ll be there tonight hoping the Julio Urias can make Fernando proud as he toes the mound for his start ever at the place he’ll call home for years to come.

 

 

Corey Seager holding court

♦ 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.