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June 25, 2023

Rare Season

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Jose Siri of the Rays homered and walked in a 3-1 win over the Royals. The homer brought Siri’s total to 14 on the season. He now owns a great .550 slugging percentage, but with a poor .295 OBP. Siri doesn’t get on base well, with a .282 career mark, but career slugging percentage is just .424 coming into the day. He found power this season.

It’s also very unusual to show that kind of power while being an out machine. The first person I thought of was Dave Kingman. Kingman, however, had only one season where he posted a sub .300 OBP and a .500+ slugging percentage. It was in 1976 at .286/.506.

Among players who were regulars, it’s only been done six times. In addition to Kingman, Jesse Barfield hit .296/.510 in 1983, Tony Armas hit .298/.514 in 1985, Tony Clark hit .299/.503 in 1996, Mike Jacobs hit .299/.514 in 2008, and Rougned Odor hit .296/.502 in 2016. If Siri keeps this up, he might post the highest slugging percentage for a player with an OBP under .300.

April 18, 2010

Mets Cut Jacobs

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Mike Jacobs was the opening day cleanup hitter for the Mets, but today the team designated him for assignment.

Jacobs is an overrated, mediocre hitter with a terrible glove, so letting him go is perfectly reasonable. The funny part is that for the first two games of the season Jerry Manuel looked at his available options and decided putting Jacobs in between David Wright and Jason Bay gave the Mets their best chance to win.

I’m waiting to see how the team does once (if) they get the proper starting eight on the field. If that doesn’t work, I suspect we’ll see a house cleaning of management up and down the organization.

December 10, 2009

Royals Cut Losses

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The Kansas City Royals cut Mike Jacobs.

Dayton Moore has made plenty of questionable moves in his relatively short time as Royals general manager, but the Jacobs acquisition ranks as one of the more obvious blunders. Releasing him one season after misguidedly touting him as some sort of offensive force reinforces that, although the move is better than the alternative of actually keeping him around for another year.

This is one of the more positive things Moore has done recently. It actually takes some guts to admit a mistake and cut your losses, rather than doubling down.