Quick Check on Ersty's Game Played This Season

So, prior to Wednesday's game, Jamestown native Darin Erstad has played in a total of 69 games this season.

He versatile Houston Astros player has pinch hit 32 times and was a pinch runner once this season. He has also logged 7 games at first, 18 games in left, 7 games in center and four games in right.

He has yet to commit an error this season, in 157 innings in the field. He has 36 put outs at first base and 33 put outs in the outfield. He is a plus defensively, I tell ya.

Offensively, he's still holding his own, hitting .316 with a .830 OPS to go with 2 home runs and 14 RBIs.

Ersty on the Radio

If you have the capability to pull in KQDJ on Saturday morning (that would be 1400 AM) and you have your eyes open at 9:06 a.m., you should tune in.

The pride of the Buffalo City, Jamestown (ND), will be on the airways talking about how his career is going this season with the Houston Astros.

Taking a look at Erstad's season (through June 4), he has 74 at bats in 50 games. He's hitting .311 (23 hits), 1 home run and 12 RBI.

In May was hit .300 (10-for-30) with four doubles, the home run and 8 RBI. He had four games in which he had more than two official at bats (two of those games during interleague play at Texas), and in two of those four games with four at bats, he had a pair of hits.

Basically a .300 hitter for his career, his postseason resume includes hitting .339 (40-for-118) in 29 games. He hit 3 homers and had 12 RBI while collecting 5 walks and striking out 17 times. He was also 4-for-4 in steal attempts.

This is all while playing plus defense either in the outfield or at first.

I am pulling for Ersty to become a bench coach when he decides to retire from being an MLB player, I think the guy just IS a leader.

Darin Erstad - May 21

Major League Baseball's pride of Jamestown, Darin Erstad, recently passed a career hit total of 1600 recently. Gotta say, that is a pile of hits. No, we aren't talking about breaking the MLB record in hits or anything like that, but Ersty has had one heck of a career.

Considering he spent parts of a couple of seasons on the disabled list, his career numbers probably will never reflect the offensive impact he's had over his career. And, because he was such a standout defensive player (the only major league player to get gold gloves in the outfield and infield) a lot of his offensive contributions will likely be overlooked.

For his career he's played in 1,448 games and is a .284 hitter (1602-for-5633). He has 300 doubles, 31 triples, 119 home runs (a .751 career OPS), 668 RBI and 178 stolen bases.

As a part-time player and pinch hitter for Houston this season he's found a bit of a revival in his career. Take the last 10 games he's played in for instance: He's hitting .375 (6-for-16) with 7 RBI, 1 HR, 2 runs, 1 walk and 2 strikeouts. Of hose 10 games he's started three of them, pinch hit in five of them and was a defensive replacement in two without an at bat.

On the season he's hitting .308. Split that between righties and southpaws, he's hitting .300 against right-handed pitching and .400 versus lefties. He gives you quality at bats, drives in runs, and doesn't look foolish with the glove.

Injuries have been his one bugaboo, and it remains to be seen if he'll play throughout the entire season, but he's off to a fabulous start in 2008. Here's to him continuing to provide solid production throughout the entire season.