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  • Regularly used teammates bats early in his career but eventually settled on Rajai Davis’s and had his own bats made replicating Davis’s model.

5 Players with a HR at Home

May 18, 2026

The Guardians hit six home runs in Sunday’s win over the Reds by five different players.

It was just the sixth time since moving into Jacobs Field in 1994 that the team had five different players homer in the same game:

Ramirez Reaches 20 SB

May 17, 2026

In Saturday’s game against the Reds, stole his 19th and 20th bases of the season in just his 47 game.

It’s the eighth fewest games to 20 steals in team history and only three other individuals have done it faster.

Here’s the list:

  • 1990 , 24 games
  • 1996 , 30 games
  • 1992 Lofton, 37 games
  • 1980 , 38 games
  • 1981 Dilone, 38 games
  • 1994 Lofton, 39 games
  • 1993 Lofton, 41 games

At age 33, Ramirez is easily the oldest of the group. The previous team record for most stolen bases through 47 games by a player age 33 or older was just 8 by in 2018.

Ramirez is also just the 15th player in MLB history to reach 20 stolen bases in 47 games or fewer. The most recent to do so:

  • 2008 Ichiro Suzuki
  • 2001 Mark McLemore
  • 1997
  • 1993 Rickey Henderson

 

30 HR, 85 RBI

October 6, 2025

There have been 64 instances of player hitting 30 or more home runs in team history, including ‘s 30 this year.

Only 15 of those seasons produced fewer than 100 RBI and Ramirez’s 85 RBI are the fifth fewer in a 30-homer season in team history.

The fewest:

20 SB for Ramirez

June 27, 2025

Recently reached 20 stolen bases for the 8th time in his career, extending his major league record for a third baseman.

The only other player in the last 100 years with more than five seasons of 20+ stolen bases while playing at least 50% of their games at third base was Paul Molitor (six seasons).

A Single Shy of the Cycle

March 29, 2025

Kyle Manzardo fell a single shy of the cycle on Opening Day against the Royals.

Falling one hit shy of the cycle is not a rare event, but missing out on the single is almost as uncommon as the cycle itself.

Here are the last five instances of a Cleveland hitter collecting a double, triple, home run but no single:

20 HR, 20 SB at home

October 27, 2024

Jose Ramirez hit 20 HR and stole 21 bases in Progressive Field this year, just the ninth 20/20 home season in history. Back in 2008, had the sixth such season.

The others:

  • Shohei Ohtani, 2024 LAD
  • Ronald Acuna, 2023 ATL
  • Sizemore, 2008 CLE
  • Shawn Green, 1998 TOR
  • Barry Bonds, 1996 SFG
  • Mike Schmidt, 1975 PHI
  • , 1969 SFG
  • Willie Mays, 1956 NYG