Eric Thames keeps destroying baseballs, and keeps being an amazing story.
After struggling in two major-league seasons, Thames starred in the Korean Baseball Organization for three years, and was given another MLB opportunity. The Milwaukee Brewers signed the 30-year-old to a three-year, $16 million deal over the offseason, and he’s just about made the contract well worth it already.
At the time of this post, the Milwaukee Brewers and Cincinnati Reds are in the third inning, and Thames already has two homers.
That gives Thames 10 homers on the year, three more than any other player in baseball (five players have seven homers). And the more incredible stat: Thames now has seven homers against the Reds in 21 plate appearances.
Eric Thames: ties the Brewers record for April HR – Carlos Lee in 2006 also had 10
7 HR in 21 plate appearances vs Reds
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) April 25, 2017
So he has as many homers vs the Reds as any other player in MLB has OVERALL. Insane.
Here are Thames’ two dingers tonight (which came against impressive Reds rookie left-hander Amir Garrett), as well as some more tweets about his incredible start:
2 players have hit 7 HR in April vs 1 team
Willie Stargell, 8 vs 1971 Braves
Eric Thames 7 vs 2017 Reds
via @EliasSports
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) April 25, 2017
Eric Thames has 7 HR with 2 strikes this season, including 2 tonight. That's more than 19 teams have this season
— ESPN Stats & Info (@ESPNStatsInfo) April 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/jonahkeri/status/856677834076631040
starting to think that Eric Thames' status in South Korea as "God" wasn't just a nickname
— Jeff Sullivan (@based_ball) April 25, 2017
https://twitter.com/Kazuto_Yamazaki/status/856668052246601728
One nation, under Eric Thames, indivisible…
— Céspedes Family BBQ (@CespedesBBQ) April 25, 2017
Thames currently has a ridiculous .379/.481/.924 slash line.
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