Wednesday, September 24, 2014

The All-Jose Team 2014
Jose Altuve is all over the place with his record-breaking hits season. Jose Abreu is one of the most feared sluggers in the American League, and is the favorite for AL Rookie of the Year. And Jose Valverde is fun to watch. Below is our top-Jose team of 2014, along with a random fact about each.

1B Jose Abreu
Abreu has more home runs vs Justin Verlander than Robinson Cano and Adrian Beltre combined. He has 12 AB's vs Verlander. Beltre and Cano have 101 AB's vs Verlander. Yeah.

2B Jose Altuve
He owns Felix Hernandez. But on the other side of that spectrum, Bronson Arroyo owns him. Altuve is 0/13 vs Arroyo, the most ABs he has vs any pitcher without a base hit. The next closest is Joe Smith of the Angels, of whom he is 0/7 against.

3B Jose Iglesias
Yeah we know he missed the whole year with stress fractures in his shins. But oh well.
His Twitter name is @JoseIglesias_SS. We needed somebody at third though, and he has played third base 37 times in his career.

SS Jose Reyes
Reyes has more triples (115) in his career than he has home runs (111). He also did this.

LF Jose Constanza
Basbeall-Reference has Constanza listed as an "Outfielder and Pinch Hitter".

CF Jose Tabata
He pinch-hit for Travis Snider on September 20th. After falling behind 1-2, the runner on first was caught stealing. Tabata was then removed as the Pirates went to their bullpen in the next half inning. So he essentially did nothing.

RF Jose Bautista
He's played every position except shortstop. Not quite on Ben Zobrist's level. And we don't see him playing short for Toronto anytime soon because of the other Jose on this list. Other Jose as in Reyes.

P Jose Fernandez*
He has given up 14 homers in his short career. 2 of those homers were to Jedd Gyorko. And his first career home run was a hoot. 

C Jose Molina
In Babe Ruths last speech at Old Yankee Stadium, he said, "I was glad to have hit the first home run in this park. God only knows who will hit the last." That last homer would be by Jose Molina.
He is also 1 for 1 with a triple and 2 RBIs vs Juan Cruz.

Note: There are probably a couple accent marks missing from the majority of these names.
*You didn't actually think we would put Valverde here over Fernandez, did you?

Question: Which Jose would you most want to build a team around? Leave a comment and let us know.

Sources: Baseball Reference

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