Not Losing Homegrown Sluggers
I was curious as to, among batters who have come up to the majors as a member of the Yankees, who has hit the most homeruns since leaving the Yankees? So, I asked Lee Sinins if there was a way to see this from the raw data behind the Complete Baseball Encyclopedia. And, here’s the “Born a Yankee, HRs after being a Yankee” leader-board that Lee sent me:
Jay Buhner 307 Deron Johnson 245 Mike Lowell 201 Jackie Jensen 190 J.T. Snow 189 Woodie Held 179 Alf. Soriano 172 Gus Triandos 166 Lefty O'Doul 113 Lee Thomas 106
So, when do you think it will be when Alfonso Soriano passes Jay Buhner on this list – sometime around 2013?
In any event, thanks to Lee for the list. For what it’s worth, it doesn’t appear like the Yankees have let too many homegrown sluggers get away…
…of course, this doesn’t count guys like Fred McGriff, who were in the Yankees system, and later made the majors somewhere else…and were slugging stars.
