MLB Fact of the day...Alfonso Soriano

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Soriano homered again last night to start the game , it was the 6th time this month , no player has ever done that 6 times in one month.

He also has 13 homers in September, matching Ernie Banks' record of 50 years ago. Soriano has carried this team and hopefully now some will stop saying he's a choker who only hits meaningless home runs.

There's not a ball 'a foot off the ground' he doesn't like :missingte

Soriano didn't start playing til age 25 and is now nearly half way to the 500 HR Club at age 31....in case you hadn't noticed, he's pretty good at throwing out runners now too.

 

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Watching him all year play, he is mildly overrated. He doesn't even have 70 RBI's or 20 SB's. Ryan Theriot is a far better leadoff hitter. Year 5 and after of that contract could be ugly for the Cubs.

 

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Yeah, Soriano really doesn't belong leadoff. Hopefully he'll agree to move to 3,4 or 5 where he can drive in more runs. His running is not there because of the hamstrong and groin injuries he's had. He will probably never again run like he once did. He needs to recognize his strewngth and move to the best spot in the lineup for him -- I would say 3rd. As for his arm in left, I have NEVER seen anyone better. He'sa tied for the league lead in assists with 19 and don't forget he's only played 121 games in left due to the CF debacle and the injury. If he played 162 there he'd probably have like 25. And a lot of them have been "no way" throwouts. He still takes poor routes sometimes to catching the ball and isn't real good going back toward the wall, but he more than makes up for it with the arm.

 

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Watching him all year play, he is mildly overrated. He doesn't even have 70 RBI's or 20 SB's. Ryan Theriot is a far better leadoff hitter. Year 5 and after of that contract could be ugly for the Cubs.

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I know you probably see more Cubs games than I do so I won't disagree, Theriot seems more like a #2 though to me.

 

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His defense has been better than I expected. Not hard when you spend years watching the likes of Dave Kingman and Moises Alou in LF. Why people keep running on him is amazing.

 

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soriano is a terrible outfielder....assists don't make you a good OFer...just look at the regular in Boston. He's just as bad.

 

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Happy 34th birthday Al

Alfonso Soriano—1978

 

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he could've been one of those "true yankees".

 

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A. Soriano homered to deep left, D. DeJesus scored

HR 376 on the career...

 

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Wish he was wearing Yankee pinstripes

 

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Soriano put the Cubs ahead in the fourth after Anthony Rizzo doubled off the left-field wall, and he struck again with a shot in the fifth.
The ball sailed to the last row of the left-field bleachers for his 12th homer this season.
That gave him 32 multi-homer games in his career and two this season. He also tied Harold Baines for 59th on baseball's career home run list with 384 and took sole possession of 12th place on Chicago's list with his 175th and 176th homers as a Cub after beginning the day even with Hall of Famer Andre Dawson.

 

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Guy can slug

 

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this guy is the energizer bunny

 

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swinging a hot bat

 

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swinging a hot bat

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Hope the Cubs capitilize and trade him to a contender.

Would love to see him get a ring but he does the Cub's no good atm.

 

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Another shot....someone pick him up.

 

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IS THIS THE END>???


http://www.si.com/mlb/2014/07/14/new-york-yankees-release-alfonso-soriano-1
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Yankees release seven-time All-Star Alfonso Soriano

On Monday, the New York Yankees released outfielder Alfonso Soriano, according to Major League Baseball’s online transactions page.

The Yankees had designated the seven-time All-Star for assignment on July 6, giving themselves 10 days to either release, waive or trade Soriano.

The two-time Silver Slugger Award winner was batting .221 with six home runs and 23 RBI in 238 plate appearances this season before being released almost 10 years to the day after winning the 2004 All-Star Game MVP award. He is 50[SUP]th[/SUP] on the all-time home run list with 412 career round-trippers.

Soriano, 38, was part of an aging Yankees roster beleaguered by injuries. He was the fourth-oldest member of the oldest team in the league.

Soriano first made the majors in 1998, signing with the Yankees as a free agent. He would go on to win two World Series with the team in
1999 and 2000. He returned to New York in 2013 after stints with Texas, Washington and the Chicago Cubs. This was Soriano’s 16[SUP]th[/SUP] major-league season.

Soriano was demoted from the starting designated hitter role earlier this season after posting feeble offensive numbers in April and May. Yankees manager Joe Girardi announced last month Soriano would split time with fellow veteran Ichiro Suzuki in right field. That arrangement lasted only 13 games.