2008 Baseball Thread, Part V: A New Beginning

Good question. Thing is, a great majority of power hitters are streaky. They come in bunches, and by the end of the season it usually averages out.

Look at A-Rod:

2007 homers by month: 14-5-9-7-9-10 (54)
2006: 5-8-3-6-5-8 (35)
2005: 9-8-3-8-12-8 (48)
2004: 4-8-7-8-5-4 (36)
2003: 9-6-5-5-15-7 (47)

 

Those two and Dale Long, if my memory serves correct.

 

Which is why Sosa's June of 1998 was so damned amazing.

 

Great. Now Zag is gonna make some lame comment.

 

Well, Utley has more home runs than each of the entire rosters of the Twins, Royals, A's and Padres.

 

Also, if I remember correctly, Mattingly hit the most home runs in his eight game streak. Not sure how many, though.

 

True. When Ryan Howard hit 58 in 2006, he went 5-13-9-8-14-9.

 

A-Rod's April was my first thought when contemplating that question. But if you saw Teixeira hit one home run a week, give or take a day, what would you think? Would you get impatient?

 

I dunno. Hard to say.

I don't think so. Of course, I'm not paying much attention to Tex right now. Chipper's lights out.

 

Like you'd ever give Teixeira half the attention you'd give Larry.

 

Twins, Royals and Padres have nine home runs.

Again, fail.

 

Tie. Jeez. I am a human-typo.