BlueJays fans are having a love affair with their powerful new infielder. We're of course talking about Eric Sogard (jonahkeri)
Well, that’s something. One of Sogard’s current teammates fared even better than he did in his first 12 games with the Jays. Billy McKinney is struggling mightily so far this season as Toronto’s primary right fielder. But he was a force of nature last summer, after coming over in a deadline deal with the Yankees.
The inaugural Jays squad had two early stars in Ault and Velez, with Velez putting up eye-popping numbers that easily topped this list. Playing mostly right field in ‘77, Velez tore up the league that April, batting .442/.531/.865 for the month. He went on to post offensive numbers 24 per cent better than league average by OPS+. But he wasn’t the same player after that inferno of a start: From May 4 to the end of the season, Velez hit a far more modest .221/.334/.369.
Sogard backers can always ignore Velez and the other early standouts who turned into mere mortals later in the season. In fact, if we expand our sample to the first 13 games played by new Blue Jays transplants, Sogard’s double-play partner Freddy Galvis’ start-of-the-season performance also cracks the list.
For now, the only thing that’s stopped Sogard is an illness that knocked him out of Tuesday’s game, caused him to refund his lunch, then forced him to sit out Wednesday’s game. Sogard’s manager will surely ask him Thursday which direction he’s headed, both in terms of his status for the final game of this Angels series, and for the rest of his so-far tantalizing season. Ever the optimist, the Jays’ bespectacled new star will have a simple answer: Up, Chuck.
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