As they travel to Oakland for a series against the sliding Atheltics, the Tampa Bay Rays have dodged questions about who is going to step up after injuries to Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford., At the other end of the AL East, the Baltimore Orioles, despite being 6 games below .500 and 15 games behind the first place Rays, are reaping the benefits of a healthy season for former Devil Rays salary cap casualty Aubrey Huff.
Huff is hitting .390 with 5 home runs, 14 runs and 15 RBIs during his league-high 19-game hitting streak, and now has 24 homers and 77 RBIs on the year. Although he has seven multi-hit games during the streak, seven of the last eight games have been one-hit performances.
Not a problem, though, as he has now hit a home run in two straight and scored four runs in the last three. He’s never been an eye-opening run-producer – his highest RBI total of 107 came in 2003 – but this recent streak proves that the former Devil Rays can’t-miss prospect can indeed be an elite fantasy outfielder.
There’s no reason to believe it won’t continue as well, as 25 of the Orioles remaining games come against the Blue Jays, Yankees, Red Sox and Rays, against whom Huff has hit a combined .324 with eight home runs. The Orioles remaining schedule is also home heavy, where Huff is hitting .305 with 14 home runs and 39 RBIs this season.
Dave DeIuliis will be a senior at Penn State’s School of Journalism. he can be reached at dmd5042@psu.edu.
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