Tracking Mikey Bryant's Assault on the Record Books; Volume 5

For the 5th straight year we will track where and how high 2B Mikey Bryant climbed in the career leaderboards. The superstar and everyone's favorite player turned 34 during Spring Training and as heads towards the Twilight of his career, he will try to keep up with a league that is focused on the young star.  Last season Bryant played in his 9th season in the BSA and 2022 will mark a decade for him in the big leagues.  While his power numbers dropped a bit, we saw Bryant's hits and average tick back up.  His .337 average was the 2nd highest of his career, while his slugging was the 2nd lowest.

Falling from 40 to 31 HR and keeping his doubles the same in 45 more AB could be a little troubling going forward but the increase in hits and average might bode well for him as he hits his mid-30's.  His 103 RBI is the lowest in his career for a full season, while he reached the 125 run mark for the 4th time in his career.  Overall it was a successful season for Bryant as he saw his teammate Dodd win the triple crown and MVP in a season where Jersey struggled and missed the postseason.


After failing to hit .300 in 2020, Bryant's .337 this past year raised his career average from .3246 back up to .3267.  Paco Rosas who is in the prime of his career continues to rake in Greenville and increased his lead to 8 points. Rosas sits at .3351.  We will see if Bryant can stay on top of Adam Mason who he currently has a 3.1 lead on for 2nd all time.  Bryant who had been 2nd all-time in OPS since creating this tracking report was finally passed by Rosas as he had a giant 2021.  He remains 7 points ahead of Mel Fields and 11 points ahead of next active member Yokoyama

Ever since we started tracking Bryant has been the king of slugging and  that didn't change despite the worst slugging percentage for a full season in his big league career.  He was once the only player in BSA history to have a career slugging over 600, but those times are gone as Bryant now sits at .581.  After his moster season, teammate Dave Dodd has taken over 2nd place 11 points behind Bryant.

Bouncing back in a huge with hits he has moved from 27th all the way up into the Top 15 while surpassing 1800 career hits.  With a Bryant like season he should hit the 2000 hit mark by the end of 2022.   Bryant surpassed the 300 2B mark and ended the season just outside the Top 30 career wise. 2021 ended a 5 year run of leading the BSA in total bases as he finished 3rd with 372.  That number is good enough for 12th and a good season should put him in the Top 10 at the end of the year.

With a down year in HR and RBI, Braynt finds himself in a tough position to climb in both categories.  He passed fellow veterans George Alston and Shizue Chouda this past year, but the only players within 40 HR are Cobra, Newell and Rivas.  This could be the 1st year where he stays stagnant in a category.  Sitting at 332 HR, Bryant has a chance to reach that magical 400 HR plateau late in 2023.  After becoming the 9th player to knock in 1000 career runs last time, he now sits 8th in the category.With Delaney's injury Bryant has a chance to pass him, but realistically no one else is within reach.  

If you are a Bryant fan, 2021 was very much a positive as his bat does not seem to be slowing down.  In a league where there is so much uncertainty after age 30, a strong season from Bryant at age 33 is a great sign.  Jersey rewarded him with a 2 and possibly 3 year contract last year which will keep him in Jersey at least through the 2023 season.  If Bryant can stay productive through these next 2 years, major milestones are in reach, but only time will tell.  

Current All-Time Rank.  (Previous 4 years are in parenthesis)  

BA: 2nd (2nd 2nd, 2nd, 1st): .3267

OPS: 3rd (2nd, 2nd, 2nd, 2nd): .9644

SLG: 1st (1st, 1st, 1st, 1st): .5817

VORP: 8th (8th, 9th, 13th, 20th): 624.94

Hits: 14th (27th. 34th, 57th, 96th): 1831

Doubles: 29th (42nd, 57th, 82nd, NR): 335
Triples: 17th (28th, 46th, 75th, NR): 49

Total Bases: 11th (14th, 23rd, 41st, 73rd): 3260

HR: 8th (10th, 15th, 20th, 35th): 332

RBI: 8th (9th, 19th, 32nd, 53rd): 1128

Runs: 14th (22nd, 28th, 55th, 86th): 1027

WAR: 10th (11th,13th, 18th, 24th): 60.86

A Tale of Perseverance, Uncertainty and Dissapointment; The Javier Martinez Story

If I say the name Javier Martinez it might ring a faint bell in the back of some BSA owner's minds.  But I am not talking about the one who appeared in 435 games and once saved 27 games for the Sacramento Mentalists.  No, I am talking about the slick fielding middle infielder who was released by the Maui organization earlier this month.  The Martinez who spent the last 6+ seasons in Maui's AAA affiliate in Denver, the Mile High Broncos.  Martinez never received more than 200 plate appearances in any of those seasons, but kept coming back to spring training every year.  Martinez's story does not being there in Maui 6 years ago, not even close.  We must go back further....much further to tell his whole tale.

As a 21 year old in the first year of a crazy idea called the VBL, Martinez played for Indiana University in the year of 2007.  A star by no means, he got by with the glove.  While not having the strongest arm, he always had the softest hands, got to balls other players didn't and turned the double play almost poetically.  He was drafted in the 2007 amateur draft by the Shelton Mighty Smiths and would play most of his first professional season in A ball in the city of Gates Mills, a small suburb of Cleveland.  He would play 129 games in Gates Mills, hitting 25 doubles and racking up a 2.4 WAR before a trade that would send him to the Kansas City Kings organization.  The Kings would send him to AA Bakersfield where he would play out the rest of the 2008 season and start for the Saboteurs for the entire 2009 season.  While not with the bat, he was a key component of a Bakersfield team that would bring home Northwest League titles on both of those seasons.

As 2010 rolled around the rumors about the league getting a complete makeover turned to be true.  The cities scrambled and re-named and an expansion draft was held.  The now 24 year old Martinez would be selected in the 71st round by the newly named Quebec Les Capitales.  He would be assigned to AA Granby, a small town 150 miles outside of Denver.  Martinez would join a team that featured some names you might now know.  Former MVP Luis Padilla, SP David Evans and SP Mal Windham.  He would play in 100 games for Granby before a late season call up to AAA Montreal where he would struggle in the only 9 games he would see that season for a team that would finish an abysmal 19-143.  Would you believe that Cordell Gibson would be on that team and wouldn't see the minor leagues once sense?  

An interesting thing happened in 2011 as Martinez would sent to start the season in A ball Waterloo where he would play in 4 games before being shipped back to Granby where he would start 88 games despite struggling with the bat.  Near the trade deadline he was included in a trade with the Vista Panthers.  Now playing for his 4th franchise, the Panthers would send him to A ball affiliate Chula Vista where he would play 5 games before the organization felt he would be better used in AAA Santa Monica, which is 140 miles north on I-5.  Martinez would play out the last part of the season with Santa Monica playing in 21 games and posting an eventual -0.3 WAR with his newest team.  Turning 26 in the off season he was now no longer considered a prospect....if he ever was considered one, he would start the season in a new city, AA affiliate of the Vista Panthers, the San Diego Smashers.  He would travel the 133 miles back south down I-5 where he would be sparingly used during the season and only see 105 plate appearances in 28 games played. 

After the 2012 season he would become a minor league free agent and would eventually sign a minor league deal with the Denver Dynasty and would be assigned to AA Ocean Park, which lies in the southwest corner of the state of Washington.  This would make the 10th city that Martinez had played in since being drafted out of Indiana at the ripe age of 26.  2013 was an interesting year.  Lingering foot injuries would keep him sidelined for much of the season and whether or not he was in the doghouse of because of injury, he would see the field in all of 2 games during the entire season and not get an AB.  But Martinez did not give up.  

Before the 2014 season, the Denver franchise was bought by Glenn Polyn, who would relocate to St. Charles.  The AA affiliate of Ocean Park would move to Culver City, a suburb of the city of Los Angeles, and just 7 miles down the road from where he played 3 years earlier in Santa Monica.  As a full time starter in 2014 he put up his best season since 2009 in Bakersfield, which was coincidentally just 120 miles North of Culver City.  His 2 home runs would would bring his career total to 7, where his 1.3 WAR would place him 6th on the team.  His above average season would have the St. Charles organization assign him to AAA Vancouver for the 2015 season, just 320 miles North of where he spent 2013 in Ocean Park.  Injuries kept him out of the lineup for much of the season, but when he was healthy towards the end of the season he played well.  Hitting .318 in 44 AB.  His parent club the St. Charles Sheens were in need of a body when veteran 2B Jeff Haris went on the DL and something happened for Javier.  After 12 minor league cities, he was being balled up the bigs!  The 28 year old would see the bench taking everything in before he got his chance.  He was called to be a defensive replacement in the 8th inning of a tight game with his former organization, Vista.  He would play 2 defensive innings before getting his first career at-bat.  Never known as a wiz at the plate he took a few cuts and eventually hit a harmless grounder on the infield for an out.  Later that week, Harris would come off the DL and instead of sending him back to AAA, Martinez was traded to the Maui organization, where he would be sent not to Maui, but to their AAA team, Mile High.

That summer in 2015 would start a 6+ year stretch of Martinez playing for the team in Denver.  He was always used as a utility player, but always proving his worth with the glove.  Mile High would mark his 14th team with his 5th franchise.  As the Tropics struggled in 2019 and 2020, Martinez saw his playing time drop for younger players and as 2021 rolled around, Martinez was in his 14th professional season as a 35 year old.  While he play admirably this season in 41 games, compiling 1.0 WAR, the writing was on the wall.  He was released on August 11th.  Now we sit at August 29th, 80 days to Martinez's 36th birthday and his career BSA stat line looks like this:

1 G, 1 PA, 1 AB, .000/.000/.000.

He is one of only 3 players currently in the BSA to get a single AB and not get a hit.  The others being 34 year 1B Gerald Booth (currently a free agent) and 32 year old 2B Dennis Lowney (currently with Birmingham's AAA club).  Martinez is looking for a last chance.  Looking for a 15th team to join and looking for that first career hit.  With rosters expanding just this week, who will give him that chance?  His glove is still very worthy for a utility position up the middle, someone has to have room.  Will Martinez get the chance to get that first hit and retire after a long 15 year trek or will he retire with a single, hitless at-bat?

GO JAVIER

Gianluigi Ciottone; A Long Road to the Majors

With their 1st round pick and the 31st overall pick in the 2016 amateur draft, the Jersey Shore D-Bags selected SP Gianluigi Ciottone, a 4-year starter form the University of Nebraska.  Starting 42 games as the primary ace of the staff, Ciottone averaged over 11 K/9 while accumulating an ERA of 3.58 and a WHIP of 1.19. Ciottone was 22 at the time of the draft and while his third pitch (changeup) wasn't that strong, Jersey management viewed him as a mid-rotation starter who was matured enough to a candidate to shoot up the minor league ranks quickly and possibly see the major league roster in as little as a year.  They were wrong.

After being drafted he was sent to AA Gainesville where his current talent should have pushed him, but he was dominated.  He walked 6.5 batters per 9, which resulted in more walks than K's and led to a 2-9 record with an abysmal 8.02 ERA in 14 starts.  Perplexed by the results he started the 2017 in A Manhattan where he did walk 2 batters less her 9 while his K/9 nearly doubled.  He was still getting hit fairly hard but his BABIP of .354 led Jersey brass to believe it was more a defensive problem than Ciottone's pitching.  Towards the end of the 2017 season he was sent to AA and slotted in the bullpen to ease him into a starting role.  In 11 appearances at age 23, he pitched 12.2 innings, gave up 15 hits, 3 HR, 8 walks and struck out 10.  Good for a 7.82 ERA to finish out the year.  Again perplexed by these results he would again start the 2018 season in A ball.  He turned 24 during the 2018 season making him one of the older players in the league.  While he did improve on his rate stats, he still gave up more hits than innings pitched and was still walking over 4 batters per 9.  

When the 2019 season rolled around, management really had no other option than let him pitch in AA.  When he was drafted, ownership pictured him starting the season in the BSA already, while in reality he barely had any success, even in A ball.  His 24-25 year old season in AA he finally started to show some promise.  Maybe it was because he was taken completely out of a starting role.  He pitched 77 games out of the bullpen, mainly in the setup role.  In 90 innings he allowed 75 hits, 41 walks and struck out 108 batters.  While still walking 4.1 batters per 9 he was back up over 10K per 9 for the first time since college.  As the 2020 season rolled around, Ciottonne was now 25, in his last half a season considered a prospect and hadn't seen AAA yet.  At this point, a 1st round pick should be considered a bust.  Gianluigi would start the year in AAA as a member of the Tuscaloosa bullpen.  He would only see 6 games before injuries on the big league club pushed him into the starting rotation.  In 32 starts he would win 10 games while posting a 5.44 ERA to go along wit ha 1.67 WHIp and a .357 BABIP.  The good news was his walks had fell below 4 per 9 for the first time in his professional career while his K's stayed at 8 per 9.  Maybe there was hope.  He was added to the 40 man roster before the Rule V draft and would head back to AAA to start the 2021 season.  In 9 starts he would go 4-1 posting a 3.67 ERA (best ever since college) as well as lowering his walks to 2.8 per 9 innings.  When Jose Lara forgot how to pitch Jersey came calling and Ciottone would make his debut.

3 days after his 27th birthday and a month short of 5 years after being drafted, Ciottone started against Madison and while he didn't earn the win he pitched 6.2 innings giving up 2 runs on 8 hits while walking 3 and striking out 2.  He would go on to win his next 4 starts and would undeafeated in his first 7 starts compiling a 4-0 record.  Ciottone would  go through a rough patch in his next starts giving up at least 5 ER in all 4 going 1-3 before just last week having the best start of his career.  Against division rival St. Louis, the team Jersey is also chasing for the Wild Card, Gianluigi would throw his first career complete game, holding the Browns to 1 run on 6 hits, walking just 1 while striking out 4 in a 7-1 win.  In 12 starts for Jersey he has a record of 6-3 a 4.06 ERA and a 1.31 WHIP.  

While it may have taken a lot longer than expected and while he isn't an ace the 1st round pick of 2016 looks like it is finally starting to pay off.  One interesting fact about Gianluigi is that since being draft in ever level he has never had a BABIP lower than .310 and has had a FIP lower than his ERA in every single stop he has made along the way.  That's 8 stops including this year in the BSA.  Does he have misleading numbers? Is the defense that bad?  Is he just unlucky?  It's really hard to say at this point.  If he keeps it up though he will find a spot in the Jersey rotation for the foreseeable future though.  He is set to pitch against the Titans in today's sim down in Toronto against a tough lineup.  With both teams looking for a win to stay in the playoff picture we will see how he succumbs to the pressure.

GO D-BAGS

Your All-Time Jersey Shore Team

I thought this seemed like a fun idea.  To find the best team I could from former Jersey Shore teams.  Rules: You can only use a player once, regardless if he played another position.  Some decisions were tough, some were easy, but here you have it:  

SP: 2019 Jose Ramos.  23-6, 2.76 ERA, 2.88 FIP, 1.05 WHIP, 8.2 WAR

SP: 2014 Dan Macias. 20-8, 2.82 ERA, 2.81 FIP, 1.16 WHIP, 8.9 WAR

SP: 2015 Art Ellis. 13-8, 2.94 ERA, 3.73 FIP, 1.20 WHIP, 5.0 WAR

SP: 2019 Sergio Martinez. 17-3, 3.08 ERA, 1.28 WHIP, 4.5 WAR

SP: 2017 Greg Schaefer. 18-3, 3.82 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 3.9 WAR

MR: 2016 Jose Gomes. 10-1, 4 saves. 1.31 ERA, 2.05 FIP, 1.02 WHIP, 3.6 WAR

MR: 2014 Daniel Morris. 6-5, 31 saves.  1.52 ERA, 1.94 FIP, 1.03 WHIP, 2.0 WAR

MR: 2013 Lucio Tapia. 8-1, 2 saves.  2.19 ERA, 1.77 FIP, 1.21 WHIP, 3.0 WAR

MR: 2019 Jose Ruiz.  6-3, 40 saves. 2.83 ERA, 2.92 FIP, 1.09 WHIP, 1.3 WAR

MR: 2013 Ciro Roghi. 1-0, 0 saves. 1.95 ERA, 2.15 FIP, 1.30 WHIP, 1.2 WAR

CL: 2017 Jaime Saenz. 8-2, 49 saves.  1.94 ERA, 1.96 FIP,  0.99 WHIP, 2.8 WAR

C: 2013 Jorge Lozano. .303/.388/.511.  36 2B, 24 HR, 107 RBI, 5.1 WAR

C: 2017 Warren Goyer. .257/.329/.541. 20 2B, 42 HR, 116 RBI, 3.4 WAR

1B: 2015 Matt Doyle. .302/.386/.572.  25 2B, 44 HR, 147 RBI, 5.7 WAR

1B: 2021 Tadahisa Kisuki.  .366/.424/.560.  32 2B, 18 HR, 57 RBI, 5.7 WAR

2B: 2016 Mike Bryant.  .347/.407/.618.  48 2B, 40 HR, 158 RBI, 9.6 WAR

3B: 2015 Adam Morrow. .282/.402/.360.  31 2B, 4 HR, 61 RBI, 3.9 WAR

3B: 2012 Parker Morrow. .313/.390/.418.  29 2B, 10 HR, 62 RBI. 3.6 WAR

SS: 2020 Lawrence Schroeder.  .306/.341/.542.  27 2B, 19 HR, 74 RBI, 4.7 WAR

SS: 2011 Jerome Lindsey.  .343/.427/.480.  23 2B, 9 HR, 56 RBI, 4.2 WAR

UTIL: 2020 Fabrice Brodeur.  .325/.365/.465.  29 2B, 10 HR, 61 RBI, 3.4 WAR

OF: 2021 Dave Dodd.  .388/.455/.799.  46 HR, 119 RBI, 9.7 WAR

OF: 2011 Mason Bonniface. .328/.433/.556.  23 HR, 78 RBI, 6.1 WAR

OF: 2010 William Hinson.  .308/.404/.538.  23 HR, 91 RBI, 4.3 WAR

OF: 2013 Leon Foster.  .272/.338/.567.  33 HR, 105 RBI, 3.7 WAR

Starting Lineup:

SP: 2014 Dan Macias. 20-8, 2.82 ERA, 2.81 FIP, 1.16 WHIP, 8.9 WAR

1.  SS 2011 Jerome Lindsey

2. DH 2021 Tadahisa Kisuki

3. 2B 2016 Mike Bryant

4. RF 2021 Dave Dodd

5. 1B 2015 Matt Doyle

6. C 2013 Jorge Lozano

7. LF 2011 Mason Bonniface

8. CF 2013 Leon Foster

9. 3B 2015 Adam Morrow

How does your team stack up?

GO D-BAGS

1st Round 2021; Bags select Ben "Cadillac" Morton

The amateur draft always a favorite time of the year for GM Josh Swain.  The way real teams build their core is to through the draft.  Jersey Shore is no exception to the rule, just look at their former 1st round picks: Mike Bryant, Matt Doyle, Richard Coker, Lawrence Schroeder, Fabrice Brodeur, Gianluigi Ciottone, Roland Martin, Gerald Johnson, Matthieu Vancini....and those are just 1st and 1st round compensatory picks over the past 10 years.  

The D-Bags selected 24th this year and for the 3rd year in a row and for the 4th time in 5 years they chose to selected a prep player over going the going the college route.  They selected out of Sante Fe High School, Catcher Ben Morton, or simply as his teammates call him.....Cadillac.  In his senior year and first year as a starter, Morton caught 36 of the teams 40 games while hitting 8 doubles, 6 homers and driving in 33 runs.  He finished with a triple slash line of .299/.389/.493.  While not lighting it up like a lot of first rounders in high school do, Jersey's scouts see  the tools  While his defensive tools won't light the world on fire, scouts predict him to be middle o the road if he can live up to his potential, but his bat is why he got chosen here.  "We have his bat and gap as plus tools and his power at plus-plus.  He will never be a guy who walks a lot and probably will strike out his fair amount of times, but catchers are still one of the more rare positions in the BSA and if he can refine his hitting tools he could be one of the better hitting catchers in the league, but he has a long ways to go for that.  I imagine he struggles pretty good with A pitching, but being at age 18 we have a lot of options going forward," said GM Swain.

Jersey won't pick again until the 62nd overall pick which will be their regular 2nd round pick.  While that is a lot of players to be picked between now and then, don't be surprised to see GM Swain find a player who will turn out to be productive, it's just what they do in Jersey during a draft.

Last year's 1st round pick Miguel Serna, who was drafted 21st overall last season, is starting to pick it up in A ball after struggling last season.  While the power hasn't come around he is hitting .251 and has 20 doubles in A ball.  Jersey's other 1st round pick, SP Ben Head, another prep player, is improving as well.  He has reduced his BB/9, while picking up his K/9 and H/9.  His FIP is 4,43 and will probably spend the rest of the year in Manhattan to improve.  2nd round pick and 63rd overall last season 2B John Moore is really picking it up in AA.  Moore turned 24 this year has shown off his speed with 18 steals, 18 doubles and 3 triples.  He has struggled in the field, but management has him playing shortstop trying to improve his range there as he has been scouted to be one of the better fielding 2B at the AA level.  Chances are he will be playing in AAA before the year is done.

GO D-BAGS

Dave Dodd; Man or Machine?

It has been evident for years that Dave Dodd had the talent to be a special player.  The way he went from  an everyday outfielder in A ball in 2015 to manning RF for Jersey the very next season as a 22 year old was no mistake.  The power potential was always there.  In 2015 he hit 15 HR in just 41 games in AAA before being called up to the show.  In 4 full big league seasons he has never failed to top 30 2B, 30 HR or 100 RBI.  He has speed, he plays defense and the scary part.....he is improving.

Turning 27 early this season all you have to do is look at his numbers to see the improvement.  He has improved on his batting average every year he has been in the league.  Hitting .254 as a rookie in 2016, .289 in 2019 and now this year 75 games into the season an eye-popping .399.  As a rookie Dodd broke the all-time record, and still holds it, for strikeouts in a season at 204.  Last season he struck out 138 times and in 2021 he is on pace to K just 83 times.  

At age 27, Dodd very well could be in the perfect storm.  He hits directly behind one of the greatest hitters in the BSA in Mike Bryant and has power hitting all-star Jaime Torres directly behind him.  He is in his prime.  The 26-28 ages are well known for sluggers putting up the biggest numbers of their career.  From Luis Padilla's record season at age 26,  Jeff Cole's 12 WAR at age 27, Zach Hutchinson's 12.1 WAR season at age 27, and Bryant's Triple Crown season at age 28 now is Dodd's time.

So far in 2021 he is putting up video game numbers. When you look at the leaderboard it is a collage of Dodd's face over and over again sprinkled in with a couple other faces.  His. 399 batting average is 26 points higher than Bill Wilson of Boston.  His .471 OBP is 28 points higher than Al Mills of Greenville.  This might be the most unbelievable one: his .853 slugging is 186 points higher than Matt Doyle of Toronto.  The record for slugging in a season is .699 by Felix Morales.  He has 10 more HR than Doyle as this point as well.  If Dodd stays on his current pace he would shatter BSA records.  A WAR of 15.8, 71 HR, 243 hits, 187 RBI.  A triple slash of .399/.471/.853 to go along with an OPS of 1.324.

No one can say what is going on with Dodd right now.  He already has a Player of the Month trophy to go along with 5 player of the week trophies in 2021 alone.  All we can say to the fans of Jersey Shore and the BSA, sit back and enjoy it.  You might be witnessing a season for the ages and seasons like this only come around once in a great while.  Enjoy it will it lasts, I know I will!

GO D-BAGS!

Bryant Starts Season Hot; Clubs 300th Career HR

When Mikey Bryant ended the 2020 season with 297 career home runs, everyone knew it wouldn't take him long in the 2021 season to hit 3 and reach the milestone of 300, but what they didn't know is that it would only take 3 games.  Bryant homered in both of the 2 game opening series again the 84er's to put him at 299 heading into a 3 game set in Reno on April 5th, 2021.  Luis Lopez was the starter for the Cards and a pitcher Bryant was a then 2-7 against without a HR.  After grounding out in the 1st, Bryant would a 0-1 pitch and launch it 438 feet to dead center easily clearing the CF wall for his 300th career bomb.  

Bryant becomes the 10th big leaguer to hit for 300 HR in the history of the BSA, behind Shizue Chouda who hit his 300th before the end of last season.  Though Bryant amassed 40 HR last year, through 51 games in the 2021 season he has struggled.  As of May 30th, he sits at 8 HR which puts him on pace for only 25. In the past he has heated up in the summer months, particularly August, so time will tell if can put up another great season at age 33, Jersey Shore could sure use his bat as they sit 6 games under .500.  

The only real viable candidate he can pass on the all time list this year year is George Alston who sits at 315 homers. He is active playing in AAA Lansing, but hasn't seen BSA time since 2019.  There is still a good chance that Bryant could reach the 400 HR club and beyond if he doesn't harshly regress in the next 2 years.  Even only a 30 HR season would put him would put him around 330.  The real question to be asked is if Jersey Shore will resign him after this season where he is a pending free agent.  Only a handful of parks around the league are as offensively friendly as the park in Jersey.  I really don't see the D-Bags letting him walk, but we have seen stranger things in the BSA. 

Meanwhile in the lineup, Dave Dodd and his incredibly hot start have him sitting on 184 HR at only 27 years old and he might be peaking now.  Tracking his stats should be a fun thing to do as well.

GO D-BAGS