With catcher Cal Raleigh reaching the 50-homer milestone on Tuesday night, it’s easy to overlook what he’s doing from each side of the plate as a switch-hitter during his monster season. Raleigh’s 50th home run on Monday night against the San Diego Padres was not only a thing of beauty, but also his 20th as a right-handed batter. If you take just those 20 home runs alone and put Raleigh on any other team other than the Seattle Mariners, he would be pacing six other teams in homers. Use only his 30 home runs he has belted from the left side of the plate and Raleigh would be the current home run leader on 22 other MLB teams. Among those are the Houston Astros, the team Seattle is chasing in the American League West (Jose Altuve’s 22 homers pace the Astros heading into Tuesday’s action). So which other teams have a 30-homer player on their roster heading into Tuesday’s play? Los Angeles Dodgers — Shohei Ohtani (45) Philadelphia Phillies — Kyle Schwarber (45) New York Yankees — Aaron Judge (40) Seattle MarinersRead More
One stat shows just how impressive Cal Raleigh’s season has been
