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Gre(24)at First Games Twenty & Younger

Posted by Steve Lombardi on May 8, 2010

Via Baseball-Reference.com's Play Index Batting Game Finder -since 1952, players age 20 or younger with Base-Out Runs Added >=2 in the first big league game:

Rk Gcar Player Age Date Tm Opp Rslt PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB IBB SO HBP SH SF ROE GDP SB CS WPA RE24 aLI BOP Pos. Summary
1 1 Starlin Castro 20.044 2010-05-07 CHC CIN W 14-7 5 5 1 2 0 1 1 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.168 3.065 .478 8 SS
2 1 Jason Heyward 20.239 2010-04-05 ATL CHC W 16-5 5 5 2 2 0 0 1 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0.197 3.629 .554 7 RF
3 1 Ruben Sierra 20.238 1986-06-01 TEX KCR L 3-5 4 3 1 2 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.328 2.786 1.330 5 CF
4 1 Wally Backman 20.346 1980-09-02 NYM LAD L 5-6 4 4 1 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.176 2.141 1.545 8 2B
5 1 Thad Bosley 20.285 1977-06-29 CAL KCR W 7-0 4 4 1 2 0 1 0 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.169 2.193 .683 7 CF
6 1 John Paciorek 18.230 1963-09-29 HOU NYM W 13-4 5 3 4 3 0 0 0 3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.201 2.675 .843 7 RF
7 1 Ron Santo 20.122 1960-06-26 (1) CHC PIT W 7-6 4 4 0 2 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.230 2.430 1.000 6 3B
8 1 Johnny Callison 19.181 1958-09-09 CHW BOS W 4-1 4 3 1 3 2 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.333 2.389 1.257 8 LF
9 1 Ted Kazanski 19.151 1953-06-25 PHI CHC W 13-2 6 6 1 3 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.110 2.278 .773 1 SS
Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 5/8/2010.

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So, now, we have two players to turn this trick this year, Starlin Castro and Jason Heyward - after it hadn't been done since 1986. Cool.

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3 Responses to “Gre(24)at First Games Twenty & Younger”

  1. TheGoof Says:
    May 8th, 2010 at 12:55 pm

    I knew about Paciorek's great one-game career, but didn't realize he was so young.

  2. Gerry Says:
    May 8th, 2010 at 6:38 pm

    I wonder if Paciorek is the only guy to appear on both the great first games and great last games lists.

  3. Jeff James Says:
    May 8th, 2010 at 11:12 pm

    Hopefully Aubrey Epps and Chris Saenz

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