Chris Duncan, son of Cardinal pitching coach (and former major league catcher) Dave Duncan, already hit a HR in his 3rd straight game today for the Cards. Before today's game he was batting .345 with an incredible .648 slugging percentage, helped by 13 HR in just 165 AB. I'm wondering if he made the bigs too late to win Rookie of the year. Jeff Francoeur was talked up for rookie of year for his partial year in 2005, until he faded down the stretch (that dude still hasn't learned how to take a walk!). Instead, Ryan Howard won with just 312 AB in 88 games, just over half a year (He had 22 HR and batted .288 with a .567 slugging avg. numbers Duncan should surpass easily). The precedent everyone always points to is Willie McCovey, who had just 192 AB when he won it in 1959. Duncan just surpassed McCovey's rookie total of 13 HR's today, and is right near McCovey's avg. (.354) and slugging (.656) for that year. Besides, Duncan will have closer to half a year by the time the season is over, as opposed to McCovey's 1/3 year.
BTW, Duncan is currently on a 5 game streak of 2 or more hits, and is 22 for 42 in the 11 games before today! That's why I just added him to my fantasy team (don't go cold on me now!)
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Hey Steve,
I had no idea you are a baseball fan! But what's up with all the St. Louis Cardinals stuff? The Cincinnati Reds are the team! :-)
Bruce Gourley
The old Redlugs, eh? you've seen the ups (Bench, Perez, Rose and rest of Big Red Machine) and the downs (Marge Schott, dismantling of team). Your Reds just caught my stumbling Cards! Should be interesting down the stretch.
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