Hall of Fame Class of '55

 

Glavine 300 Welcomes Kendrys Almonte as the class of ’55 Lone Hall Of Fame Representative

In season ’34 Almonte signed as a massive international free agent, a whopping amount of 27 Million dollars. The Mexican native was best suited to play 1^st base, where he did spend about 2/3rds of his playing time making 81+ plays against 31 negatives. He did play almost 800 games in RF where he made a crazy 98 negative plays.  After a bit of a slow star in his rookie season, 26 homers and a 257 AVG.  He then hit 154 homers in his next three seasons combined. He would top 50 homers three more times including 59 in his best overall season that would see him hit 307 with 172 RBI and win his first of two MVP’s. He would win again in season ’46 when he hit a career hit 40 doubles with 54 homers 161 RBI and bat 305.  His career would finish with 2777 hits, 742 of them being homers(4^th all-time), 1886 RBI and a slash line of 286/350/560 and a 910 OPS.  By comparison I have him 7^th among all 1^st basemen in the Hall behind Benito Monatez and ahead of Michael Wang. Having just retired Almonte seems to be enjoying his down time and travelling the world when not spending time with his new wife, Giselle (27) a former model for the Spanish Beauty magazine El Espectador (The Looker)