Lastings Milledge Update VI

 
Well, Lastings did not like the fact that RA Dickey Dicks dropped him, and his tears certainly softened his performance. Our favorite 23-year-old has continued to slump. He’s now on pace to hit .252 with a .322 OBP, only 4 HRs, among 40 Extra Base hits, with 61 Runs Scored, 45 RBIs, and 12 steals, along with 106 [...]

Lastings Milledge Update V

LASTINGS MILLEDGE is slowly losing the right to have his name capitalized. In his first 468 major league at bats (2006-2008), he has only 12 home runs. This year he has gone 31 for 118 (.263 avg) with 9 walks (.331 OBP), 10 extra base hits (1 home run), 15 runs scored, 11 RBIs, 3 [...]

Lastings Milledge Update IV

Wonder boy - AKA LASTINGS MILLEDGE - has taken a stab at week 3 of being a full time starter. Let’s see how the Nationals CF is treating opposing pitchers (hopefully, those numbers are more impressive than this picture we dug up). Based on Lastings’ 75 at bats, he projects (over 600 abs) to a .280 Avg, .345 OBP, with [...]

Lastings Milledge Update III

Lastings is now on pace for a decent year: .308 AVG, .351 OBP, (and based on 550 ABs) 169 hits, 85 runs, 11 HRs, 53 RBIs, 11 SBs, 32 walks and 63 Ks. All things considered, a year like that might not live up to the hype that LASTINGS MILLEDGE has generated for himself, but [...]

Lastings Milledge Update II

Heading into today’s action, Lastings was 7 for 26 with 1 walk in 6 games. Today he went 1 for 4, so make that 8 for 30. He’s hit 2 extra base hits including 1 HR. He has also scored 5 runs and driven in 2. He has 2 multi-hit games in those 6, which [...]

Lastings Milledge Update

Lastings opened the season in the Nationals-Braves “North American Opening Day 2008″ as Joe Morgan dubbed it several times during the broadcast. Lastings batted second and went 0 for 4, with no walks, no RBIs, 1 K and 1 LOB. Currently, his stats project to a .000 BA, .000 OBP, no RBIs, 162 Ks, and [...]