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Rookie All-Stars

July 14, 2026

With the selections to the 2026 All-Star team, and became the fourth and fifth rookies in team history to make the roster, joining:

Bazzana also joins Stigman and Score as the only ones to do so in their first season in the majors.

Messick and Bazzana are also just the fifth pair of rookie teammates selected to an All-Star game, the first since Dellin Betances and Masahiro Tanaka represented the Yankees in 2014.

And they’re the first pair of teammates not involving a Japanese veteran coming to MLB since the 1960 Orioles sent three rookies to the All-Star game.

It’s also worth mentioning Stigman’s selection was bizarre and undeserved by any objective metric.

He was added to the team by White Sox manager “because he can come in from the bullpen and get a left-hand hitter good. He as good control and more baseball experience than [Steve] Barber.”

Barber was a rookie starter for the Orioles who was more deserving (he received MVP votes that year) and would later make two all-star games.

It’s also possible Lopez already knew Stigman from their time in Cleveland together (though I was unable to confirm this as a factor). Lopez was the Indians manager during Stigman’s first three years in Cleveland’s minor league system.

Stigman entered the break with a 3.80 ERA and a 1.42 WHIP in eight starts and 15 relief appearances.

Four Hits from Nine-Hole

May 11, 2026

In Sunday’s loss to the Twins, went 4-4 with two run scored while batting ninth.

It was just the ninth time someone collected four hits from the nine-hole at home since Jacobs Field opened in 1994.

The others:

Rocchio and Asdrubal were the only ones to do so in a losing effort.

The last to so home or away was in Kansas City in 2019.

Hedges’ Hit Streak

April 12, 2026

In Saturday’s win over Atlanta, went 1-3 with a walk. He’s collected a hit in each of his five games this year.

Since 2000, Hedges’ is the fourth Cleveland catcher to open the season with a hit streak of at least five games, joining:

Bard’s streak was the first nine games of his career.

DeLauter’s 5 HR Through 7 Games

April 3, 2026

In the home opener, did it again, blasting his fifth homer in his just seventh game.

He’s the fourth player in history with at least five homers through seven career regular season games, joining:

  • Trevor Story, 7
  • Rece Hinds, 5
  • Mark Quinn, 5

also had five home runs through the first seven games in which he had a plate appearance with the 2007 Yankees. However, in his third career game he was a defensive replacement and did not come to the plate, so technically it took him eight games to reach five home runs.

The previous franchise record was four, by in 1988.

and were the only others with three.

DeLauter is also just the sixth player franchise history with five homers through the team’s first eight games, joining:

DeLauter 3 HR Through 2 Games

March 28, 2026

He did it again.

‘s first-inning home run off Seattle’s George Kirby was his third through two games —  the first two regular-season contests of his career.

He’s just the third player in MLB history with three home runs through his first two regular season games, joining:

  • 2016 Trevor Story, Rockies
  • 1954 Joe Cunningham, Cardinals

DeLauter is also the first player in franchise history with three home runs through the team’s first two games of the season.

Only 15 players had previously hit two home runs through the first two games, most recently in 2007.

DeLauter’s 13 total bases through the team’s first two games is also a franchise record, breaking the mark of 12 previously shared by . (1998), (1955) and (1950).

It’s also the franchise record for the most total bases through two career games, breaking the record of 10 held by (1993), (1977), (1936) and (1929).

The only player in MLB history with more total bases through two games was Cincinnati’s Rece Hinds in 2024. DeLauter is one of just four with 13 or more and only 38 have reached double-digits.

David Fry ASG RBI

July 17, 2024

David Fry tied the All-Star Game up 3-3 with an RBI single in the third inning off Logan Webb. It was Cleveland’s first tying or go-ahead RBI in the All-Star game in over 20 years.

Here’s the full list:

Steven Kwan Enters ASG with .352 BA

July 15, 2024

Steven Kwan enters the All-Star Break batting .352, just the 10th qualified player in franchise history to enter the break with an average over .350.

Here are the highest averages entering the break in franchise history:

Everyone on the list made the All-Star team except Knickerbocker, who was left off in favor of Hall of Famer Joe Cronin, the only shortstop selected to the game that year. Cronin was batting .283 with a .354 OBP.