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Friday, August 25, 2006
News and Notes Around the League - August 25, 2006
- Willy Taveras has hit in 27 consecutive games for the Astros. That's a tie for the second longest streak in the Majors this year.
- Angels Jered Weaver lost his first game last night at the hands of the Red Sox.
- Arizona brought up star prospect Chris Young this week and are now playing Young, Carlos Quentin, Conor Jackson, and Stephen Drew. Not a bad nucleus of players in their early 20s.
- The Mets optioned Lastings Milledge to AAA-Norfolk to make room for Shawn Green. Milledge will most certainly be back by the end of next week.
- Jermaine Dye has 17 homers in his last 49 games.
- Beginning with the action exactly one year ago (August 25, 2005), Freddy Sanchez leads all major league players with a .344 batting average and 56 doubles...His 206 hits in that time (159 games) lead all National League players and rank fifth among all players behind Ichiro Suzuki (223), Michael Young (221), Derek Jeter (211) and Miguel Tejada (210).
- Edwin Encarnacion has hit safely in six of his last seven games and raised his average to .302 .
- Grady Sizemore became the first player to reach 100 runs scored this season when he scored twice on Wednesday to bring his season total to 101.
- The Rockies continue to fade after going 0-6 on their latest road trip.
Prince Fielder leads all rookies with 23 home runs. - The Twins are 49-19 since June 7, the best record in the majors.
- Padres
Dave Roberts has stole 37 bases this season with a success rate of 90.2%.- Toronto's first round pick in the 2006 draft, OF Travis Snider, has been selected as the Appalachian League's Player of the Year. Snider is hitting .325 with 11 HRs and 41 RBI.
- Alfonso Soriano is only the 8th player in major league history to hit 40 homers in his first season after switching leagues.
posted by Joe Hamrahi at 10:12 AM
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