May 31, 201313 yr Jayson Stark has an article on Home Runs right now: Home runs and HR heroes of 2013 - ESPN I found an interesting tidbit: [h=3]The zero hero team[/h] Most plate appearances this season without a homer: [TABLE] PA HR [TR=class: last] Elvis Andrus 236 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Denard Span 220 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Placido Polanco 205 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Ruben Tejada 204 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Ben Revere 176 0 [/TR] [TR=class: last] Gregor Blanco 158 0[/TR][/TABLE] Span's OPS: .668Revere's OPS: .582Hicks' OPS: .569 With the improvements (albeit slight) Hicks is showing, he may end up passing the other two up yet this year. The Twins are going through obvious growing pains with Hicks, but it's starting to become apparent why they traded Span and Revere.
June 1, 201313 yr They traded them b/c they have a surplus at the position and got reasonable value back for them. I'm quite fine with that. Span I suspect will improve. I've never been high on Revere.
June 1, 201313 yr Did Denard put on about 20 pounds over the winter? Maybe the blue stripes hid a few curves all those years. He looks fatter as a Nat.
June 1, 201313 yr Author They traded them b/c they have a surplus at the position and got reasonable value back for them. I'm quite fine with that. Span I suspect will improve. I've never been high on Revere. Agree on Revere. Span's numbers look similar to what he put up the two years prior to last. I'm just happy he was better last year and Ryan flipped him for a valuable piece.
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