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Baseball Primer Newsblog— The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand
Saturday, September 01, 2012
Not only did Eastern League MVP Darin Ruf break Ryan Howard’s Reading home run record with 38, Justin Friend tied the Reading save record with 24!
The homer was Ruf’s 20th of August, equaling the major league record for most homers in a month by Sammy Sosa in 1998.
In 30 games this month Ruf has 35 RBIs, 29 runs scored, a .372 batting average and a .947 slugging percentage.
Ruf was a 20th-round pick out of Creighton in the 2009 draft. The only good players ever to come from Creighton, despite its proximity to the College World Series, are Dennis Rasmussen, Scott Servais, and Alan Benes.
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1. RickG Posted: September 02, 2012 at 07:52 PM (#4225287)In Sammy Sosa's 20HR month he hit a mere .298 with a piddling .842 SLG and 25 runs scored.
there's rumors that the phillies will be calling ruf up now that it's september and give him a look in LF.
Yeah, Bob Gibson sure sucked at baseball.
They better. He is 26 and has had a monster AA year. Even if he isn't a real prospect he deserves a MLB callup as a reward for his year (or, rather, a reward for his last month). It's the right thing to do.
This shtick was annoying when Larry M. was doing it.
What if McCoy offers you Soriano for Ruf?
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