Last season, Josh Hamilton had a 19HR season with the Reds. His 53 RBI this season have already surpassed last season's total. He's on pace to hit 36HR.

Rangers David Murphy has 35 RBI. In four years, his career high before this season was 14 RBI.

Sidney Ponson is 3-0 ths season. In his ten year career, he has had just one season over .500.

Jamey Wright is 2-1. His last season of pitching over .500 was 1999.

Tampa Bay relievers are mowing down opposing hitters. Opponents are hitting .153 against Dan Wheeler, .191 against JP Howell, and .129 against Troy Percival, and .160 against Kurt Birkins.

The Yankee with the 2nd best on base percentage: Jason Giambi, despite batting .234

In 74 at-bats for the Yankees this season, Morgan Ensberg has one extra base hit.

The knock on Ryan Church when he came to the Mets was that he couldn't hit left-handers. He's currently hitting .327 against southpaws.

The Orioles leading hitter: Luke Scott... with a .257 average. However, they have five regulars who have on base percentages over .400. By contrast, the Yankees have one regular with an OBP over .400 (Matsui).

Lance Cormier has an ERA of 1.93. His best season prior to 2008, his ERA was 4.89.

The White Sox have 17 stolen bases as a team. Jacob Ellsbury has 19 for the Red Sox.

The Twins have nine players with at least one triple this season. The Indians have just two players with a triple.

Victor Martinez has 0HR and 15 RBI. Last season, he hit 25HR and had 114 RBI.

Asdrubal Cabrera is batting .176. Why haven't the Indians brought up Barfield yet?

Victor Martinez drives in one run for every 9.3 at-bats. Ryan Garko one RBI every 7.8 at-bats. Franklin Guti�rrez drives in one run for every 11 at-bats. Jhonny Peralta one RBI every 9.7 at-bats. Travis Hafner one RBI every 7 at-bats. The Indians player who had the best RBI per at-bat ratio (aside from Grady Sizemore).....Jason Michaels, had one RBI every 6.4 at-bats. And he was released. He also had the best doubles to at-bat ratio on the team.

David Wright is hitting .458 against lefties.

Who leads the Angels in homeruns with 10? Not Vlad Guerrero or Torii Hunter or Casey Kotchman...it's Mike Napoli.

Joe Saunders and Ervin Santana are a combined 14-3. The rest of the Angels pitching staff is 16-19.

32 year old journeyman Ramon Vazquez is currently hitting .366 in 93 at-bats for the Texas Rangers. He has come through numerous times in the clutch.

The Oakland A's have a team ERA of 3.27. No A's starter has an ERA over 4.00.

Arthur Rhodes is the only Mariners pitcher over .500.

Don't look now, but Milton Bradley is batting .333 this season...as is Josh Hamilton.

The Braves have six pitchers with at least one save.

Marlins pitcher Mark Hendrickson is batting .333 so far this season.

The Marlins have 71HR. The Mets have 41.

No Mets player is hitting over .300 at Shea Stadium this season.

Earlier this season, the Mets released Jorge Sosa. As deceiving as it may be, he was their winningest pitcher at 4-1.

Brett Myers has given up 15HR in 65 IP.

Washington Nationals catchers Wil Nieves and Jesus Flores both have 49AB, 16 hits (.327 average), 1HR, and 9RBI.

The Cubs have five regulars hitting over .300.

Carlos Zambrano and Ryan Dempster have a combined 12-3 record. The rest of the Cubs staff is 17-18.

Wandy Rodriguez has an ERA of 2.31. No other Astro starter has an ERA under 4.00

Rickie Weeks leads the Brewers in runs scored. He also has the lowest batting average among Brewers starters at .207

Nate McLouth has 3 triples. The rest of the Pirates have 1 combined.

Ryan Ludwick leads the Cardinals in HR and RBI.

The Pirates have 4 triples. The Diamondbacks have 20.

Brandon Webb, Randy Johnson, Dan Haren, Doug Davis, and Micah Owings have a combined record of 26-8. The rest of the staff is 4-12.

So much for home field advantage. The Padres are hitting .226 at home.

While Tim Lincecum is 6-1, the rest of the staff is 14-30



Court Adjourned!