{"id":237362,"date":"2021-04-11T10:40:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T14:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=237362"},"modified":"2021-04-11T10:40:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-11T14:40:17","slug":"jose-abreu-and-the-200-home-runs-a-power-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/jose-abreu-and-the-200-home-runs-a-power-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Jos\u00e9 Abreu and the 200 home runs: a power story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One, two, three, four, five&#8230;200!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This Tuesday, April 6, a slider by pitcher Keynan Middleton was transformed into a rocket that shot 104.9 miles and traveled 404 feet until it was lost in the Seattle night, where slugger Jos\u00e9 Abreu entered history as the sixth Cuban with 200 home runs in the Major Leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There was a full house and the game was at a standstill (6-3) at T-Mobile Park, the perfect circumstances for the \u201cMal Tiempo phenomenon\u201d to enter the scene and lead the Chicago White Sox to another victory, the third of the current year and No. 101 in the 182 games Abreu has homered since making his debut in the Major Leagues in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His 200 homers have come almost exactly seven years since his first full-return hits in the United States, on April 8, 2014, when Chad Bettis and Wilton L\u00f3pez were the Cuban victims in Colorado. That day, anyone could think that Abreu was only taking advantage of the benefits of Coors Field, a hitters paradise, but with the passage of time everyone has been able to realize that his power is genuine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, from 2014 to date, \u201cPito\u201d is the eighth player with the most home runs in Major Leagues Baseball (MLB), surpassed only by Nelson Cruz (263), Mike Trout (242), Edwin Encarnaci\u00f3n (229), Nolan Arenado (226), J. D. Mart\u00ednez (216), Khris Davis (207) and Manny Machado (203). In that span, in addition, he is third in hits, second in RBIs and a distinguished member of the Top-20 in On-base Plus Slugging (OPS) and slugging.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And that&#39;s why he&#39;s the reigning MVP. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dz2lGvQ2qO\">pic.twitter.com\/Dz2lGvQ2qO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chicago White Sox (@whitesox) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whitesox\/status\/1379666532008099840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abreu has been the natural leader of the White Sox, he even won the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the American League in 2020. But the most important thing is that the Cuban has never lowered the intensity and constantly sets his sights higher up: \u201cI\u2019m not the type of person to settle for just being the MVP. I will continue to work hard. I don\u2019t like to get comfortable. I don\u2019t like feeling like nothing else exists. There\u2019s always more you can do and I\u2019m going for more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With that mentality, it would not be too pretentious to think that Abreu, at 34, can perfectly dream of 400 home runs in MLB, a figure that would place him at the gates of Cooperstown, considering that he debuted at 27 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Do you think it is impossible? For the skeptics, I remind you that Nelson Cruz, the man who has hit the most home runs since 2014 to date, forged that leadership aged between 33 and 40 years. Abreu is now entering that age like good wine, as evidenced by the fact that he had his last 50 home runs in 204 games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This detail may not seem significant, but it is. Abreu hit his first 50 home runs in 218 games, his second 50 took 283 duels and delayed the 262 for his third 50. If we look at it from another perspective, the Cienfuegos player needed 501 games for his first 100 homers, and the last 100 have been achieved in 35 fewer games (466). The fact that he has considerably lowered these indicators is proof of his constancy, seriousness and professionalism, determining factors in his aspirations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But instead of looking to the future, let\u2019s take a look back at the road to the first 200 home runs of the \u201cMal Tiempo phenomenon.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Starting point<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jos\u00e9 Abreu debuted in the Major Leagues at the age of 27, without passing through the Minors. His irruption was sudden and, despite the fact that he already had a certain sporting maturity, it was an absolute unknown if he would perform in an unknown scenario and qualitatively far superior to everything he had faced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, in his debut campaign, the bad vices he could have had from Cuban baseball were hardly noticed and he fully triumphed, to the point of winning the \u201cRookie of the Year\u201d award. His 36 home runs in 2014 represent the ninth-highest number for rookies in MLB history, a list led by Pete Alonso with his 53 hits in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"rIRoqSxu2R\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/la-semana-perfecta-de-jose-abreu\/\">La semana perfecta de Jos\u00e9 Abreu<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00abLa semana perfecta de Jos\u00e9 Abreu\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/la-semana-perfecta-de-jose-abreu\/embed\/#?secret=JRXYP31RJt#?secret=rIRoqSxu2R\" data-secret=\"rIRoqSxu2R\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As we already mentioned, Abreu\u2019s first victims were Chad Bettis and Wilton L\u00f3pez, two not very seasoned pitchers, although later, in that same season, he hit home runs against six men who had won\u2014or subsequently won\u2014the Cy Young Award. as the best pitchers in their respective leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Among those illustrious names, the name of Clayton Kershaw stands out, who allowed very few hits in 2014. That season the Dodgers ace took the second Cy Young of his career, with 21 victories, a 1.77 ERA, Walks and Hits per Inning Pitched (WHIP) of 0.857 and only nine home runs\u2014one of them by Abreu\u2014on June 2 in Los Angeles. The funny thing is that the Cuban had not hit home runs for 18 days and ended his streak against the star southpaw.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>His favorite victims<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another great pitcher who has felt the power of Jos\u00e9 Abreu firsthand is Justin Verlander. The two-time Cy Young award winner is the one who has allowed the Cuban the most home runs (six), and in general he\u2019s put in a lot of hard work to dominate him. Since they met for the first time on April 22, 2014, the Cienfuegos player has hit .364\/.429\/.818 against Verlander, with eight extra-base hits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Either way, the \u201cMal Tiempo phenomenon\u201d hasn\u2019t distinguished between stars and average pitchers, or between lefties and righties. In total, Abreu has bounced 148 pitchers\u2019 ball, 35 of whom he has hit more than once. In addition to Verlander\u2014his favorite victim\u2014he has hit five homers to Corey Kluber and four to Kyle Gibson.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the way, it is striking that he homered off nine Cy Young award-winning pitchers. We already mentioned Kershaw, Verlander and Kluber, but we would have to add Blake Snell, David Price, Rick Porcello, Dallas Keuchel, R.A. Dickey and Shane Bieber.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By teams, logically those who have suffered the most are his divisional rivals Cleveland, the worst off with 24 homers from the Cuban, followed by Detroit (23), Kansas (21) and Minnesota (20). Abreu has homered every team in the American League and the only ones that have escaped his power in MLB are the New York Mets, Atlanta Braves and San Diego Padres.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The longest home run<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On average, Jos\u00e9 Abreu\u2019s home runs have traveled more than 400 feet in each of his MLB seasons, except for 2015, when his average home run distance was 399 feet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In total, of his 200 home runs in MLB, 121 have gone beyond 400 feet and the award for the longest goes to the one he connected to Cubs southpaw Jon Lester. On July 27, 2017, he dropped a bombshell through the left field that walked 454 feet at Guaranteed Rate Field, and later that same night, he hit a 438-foot Japanese Koji Uehara. Almost 900 feet in a single day!<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"HaXSz1MgE1\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/gracias-dios-por-pito-abreu\/\">\u00a1Gracias, Dios, por \u201cPito\u201d Abreu!<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"\u00ab\u00a1Gracias, Dios, por \u201cPito\u201d Abreu!\u00bb \u2014 OnCubaNews\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/deportes\/beisbol\/gracias-dios-por-pito-abreu\/embed\/#?secret=X0IYUuEhYU#?secret=HaXSz1MgE1\" data-secret=\"HaXSz1MgE1\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was Abreu\u2019s eighth game with more than one homer in MLB, and his second in the 2017 season, when he had the most multi-homer crashes (five) of his career. By the way, the Cuban has managed to hit two home runs in 16 games and in one he bounced three balls, precisely against the Chicago neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That three-homer game was part of the Cuban\u2019s massacre between August 21 and 23 of last year, when he linked a chain of three consecutive dates with balls over the fence of Wrigley Field. But the most impressive thing about that is that, in the middle of the streak, he had a run of four consecutive home runs against Kyle Hendricks, Rowan Wick, Duane Underwood Jr. and Yu Darvish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>May the fourth be with you<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One would have to ask Jos\u00e9 Abreu if he is a fan of \u201cStar Wars,\u201d but he could perfectly run as an ambassador of the popular film saga among MLB players, because in five different seasons he has hit a home run on May 4, a date recognized as \u201cStar Wars Day.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In his first season, Abreu hit the ball over the fence on May 4 against Corey Kluber and the Indians. The following year he had no games on that day, but from 2016 to 2019 he never missed his home run appointment on May 4. In 2016 he hit the ball pitched by Clay Buchholz (Boston), in 2017 it was Ian Kennedy (Kansas), in 2018 Jos\u00e9 Berr\u00edos (Minnesota) and in 2019 Tyler Thornburg (Boston).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to the pandemic, the 2020 season was delayed until the summer and there were no games in May, so Abreu had no chance to extend his surprising streak. Either way, we will have to be attentive to the upcoming \u201cStar Wars Day,\u201d because the force is definitely with Abreu every May 4th.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The comparatives<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jos\u00e9 Abreu is the sixth Cuban to reach 200 life-long home runs and the second fastest to reach the mark (967 games), surpassed by Jos\u00e9 Canseco, who needed only 812 games for the 200 homers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Far behind are Rafael Palmeiro (1,336), Tany P\u00e9rez (1,224), Tony Oliva (1,412) and Kendrys Morales (1,249), although it is worth noting that Palmeiro achieved his next 200 home runs only in 756 games, which gave him the final boost to become the only Cuban with more than 500 home runs in the Major Leagues.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in these comparisons, Abreu not only does well among the Cubans. For example, if we focus on the 26 active players who have 200 or more homers, we can see that the Cienfuegos player is the eighth who has needed the least time to reach the figure. The only ones ahead of him are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* Giancarlo Stanton (781 games)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* Albert Pujols (788)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* Khris Davis (790)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* Chris Davis (879)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* Mike Trout (923)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* Nolan Arenado (925)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* J. D. Martinez (957)<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"8oRlPZPAJQ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/the-cuban-sox-make-history\/\">The \u201cCuban Sox\u201d make history<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The \u201cCuban Sox\u201d make history&#8221; &#8212; OnCubaNews English\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/the-cuban-sox-make-history\/embed\/#?secret=ooyCAXwCth#?secret=8oRlPZPAJQ\" data-secret=\"8oRlPZPAJQ\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is powerfully striking that several of the most consistent first basemen in recent years also lag behind Abreu in this parameter. Such are the cases of Miguel Cabrera, Paul Goldschmidt, Jay Bruce, Anthony Rizzo, Joey Votto, Freddie Freeman and Ryan Zimmerman, who needed a thousand or more games to get to 200 home runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the question does not end there. If we analyze these same data from the best first basemen in MLB history, we can find that several surpass Abreu, such as Harmon Killebrew (he hit his first 200 home runs in 769 games), Mark McGwire (835), Frank Thomas (849), Hank Greenberg (860), Jimmie Foxx (891), Fred McGriff (927), Jim Thome (927) and Willie McCovey (937).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet Abreu is ahead of three Hall of Famers, three legends, one from the Yankees, one from Baltimore and one from Houston, in that order. The first is the legendary Lou Gehrig, who reached 200 homers in his ninth season (973 games), followed by Eddie Murray (1,057) and Jeff Bagwell (1,070).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>The opportunity<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jos\u00e9 Abreu has batted in 680 runs in MLB, and more than half have been thanks to his home runs. The Cuban has scored a total of 376 touchdowns (55.3%) just for home runs, which clearly speaks of his ability to bat with men on base.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Of Pito\u2019s 200 homers, 87 have been as teammates in circulation, 52 with runners in scoring position and 72 with two outs. But if those elements are not enough to show that he is a clutch type, I tell you that 65% (130) of his homers have come with a margin of two or fewer runs on the board, including 64 (32%) with an even score.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/whitesox\/status\/1379673357885468672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1379673357885468672%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foncubanews.com%2Fdeportes%2Fbeisbol%2Fjose-abreu-y-los-200-jonrones-una-historia-de-poder%2F<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition, he has hit 75 home runs to put his team ahead, 17 to equalize the actions and two to decide (walk-off). The first of this kind was on April 25, 2014, when the White Sox trailed 5-6 to Tampa in the ninth inning, and Abreu hit Grant Balfour\u2019s ball with a full house to seal a spectacular 9-6 victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">His second walk-off came in July 2019 against Detroit and in extra-innings. At the height of the 12th inning, with the scoreboard 6-6 and two runners on base, the Cuban grabbed an 80-mile change from Nick Ram\u00edrez and sent the ball flying to decide.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By the way, that was only the second homer of the \u201cMal Tiempo phenomenon\u201d in extra innings, after the one he hit in August 2018 against the Yankees, to even the score at three when the Mules were at an out from victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, Abreu has hit 73 home runs between the first and third innings, 75 from the fourth to the sixth, and 52 from the seventh onwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Abreu the stranger<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jos\u00e9 Abreu started the 2021 season with a home run at Angels Stadium, thus preserving a very particular tradition: in each of his eight seasons in MLB he has hit the first home run away from home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2014, the Cienfuegos player activated his full-round hitting box at Coors Field in Colorado; in 2015, 2018 and 2019 he chose Kauffman Stadium in Kansas; in 2016 he continued his tour at the Oakland Coliseum; for 2017 he jumped to Comerica Park in Detroit; and in 2020 he started the party that would end with a MVP award at Progressive Field in Cleveland.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_237363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-237363\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/abreu-sox-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237363\" src=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/abreu-sox-1.jpg\" alt=\"The name of Jos\u00e9 Abreu appears next to several immortals who have also hit 200 home runs with the White Sox shirt. Photo: Chicago White Sox.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/abreu-sox-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/abreu-sox-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/abreu-sox-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/abreu-sox-1-750x422.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-237363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The name of Jos\u00e9 Abreu appears next to several immortals who have also hit 200 home runs with the White Sox shirt. Photo: Chicago White Sox.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Surprised? It is certainly a striking detail, but it is not an isolated trend in Abreu\u2019s career. The Cuban, in fact, started in MLB with 21 of 36 home runs on the road, and at the height of his eighth season in the United States those numbers have not been reversed, as he has achieved 104 home runs on the road and 96 at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plus, he has gone long periods without missing the ball at Chicago\u2019s Guaranteed Rate Field. For example, between September 2016 and June 2017, he spent 41 games and 177 consecutive plate appearances without being able to hit a home run in his stadium, while in that same period he hit 14 home runs on the road.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first baseman became the fifth Chicago White Sox player, and the sixth Cuban in history, with 200 home runs in MLB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2213,"featured_media":237364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13926],"tags":[18444,4096],"ppma_author":[33652],"class_list":["post-237362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baseball","tag-cubans-in-major-league-baseball","tag-major-legue-baseball-mlb"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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