Carlos Delgado has collected 473 home runs in the big leagues and 1,512 RBIs since he entered the big leagues…

Carlos Delgado has collected 473 home runs in the big leagues and 1,512 RBIs since he entered the big leagues…

When Brandon Morrow makes his final start of the season Friday, he will do it at Yankee Stadium, where he made his first major league start.

When he was with the Mariners, he made his first start after 101 relief appearances on Sept. 5, 2008. Morrow was brilliant, allowing one hit and one run in 7 2/3 innings. The hit came with two outs in the eighth.

Morrow has that kind of stuff. He lost a no-hitter against the Rays this season with two outs in the ninth in a 1-0 win on Aug. 8.

Morrow is 1-0 with a 7.94 ERA at Yankee Stadium this season and 1-0 with a 4.81 ERA in four starts overall against the Yankees. In his career, he is 2-0 with a 4.46 ERA against New York.

This will be Morrow’s 26th start of the season.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Good pitching, even better defence and just enough offence to win another one-run game.

Good pitching, even better defense and just enough offense to win another one-run game. The Tampa Bay Rays have been doing it all season and aren't about to apologize for their style. "That's what we are," second baseman Sean Rodriguez said Wednesday night after making a couple of nice defensive plays, smacking a solo homer and finishing a double shy of the cycle in a 2-1 victory…

The Toronto Blue Jays have recalled catcher J.P Arencibia from Triple-A Las Vegas and reinstated left-handed pitcher David Purcey from the 15-day disabled list. The moves were made before Wednesday night's game against Tampa Bay. Purcey had been sidelined with a right foot injury since Aug. 13. Arencibia hit the first pitch he saw in the majors for a home run on Aug.

Jose Bautista has hit his major league-leading 43rd homer during the Toronto Blue Jays' 10-run sixth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays. Bautista's three-run drive Tuesday night off reliever Lance Cormier capped the outburst and put the Blue Jays up 11-3. Aaron Hill had a two-run shot against Cormier.

Toronto first baseman Lyle Overbay does not have a concussion, but is feeling as if he did. Overbay was out of the lineup for the fourth straight game Tuesday night because of post-concussion symptoms. He did resume on-field work before Toronto played at Tampa Bay and hopes to play again in the next few days.

Jose Bautista is not what most people would consider a slugger, certainly not most fans of his former team the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Yet he has emerged with a league-leading 42 home runs so far in 2010, after working on his swing last year with Toronto hitting coach, Dwayne Murphy.

This unexpected power has led to allegations that Bautista has done what Roger Clemens, or possibly even A-Rod has done in using controlled substances. Despite the improbability of his breakout, I don’t believe those charges.

That’s because Batista’s recent success doesn’t seem to be about power: He is probably not hitting harder than before. Instead, he is hitting “smarter.”

Bautista has one of the “fastest” swings in the majors, which is to say that he lifts, rather than merely “slugs” the ball. Thus, he uses a bat like a lever, not a club.

It was an ancient scientist, Archimedes, who said, “give me a lever and a place to stand on, and I can move the earth.”

That’s why he has one of the highest “conversion” ratios of home runs to fly balls in the majors. FanGraphs rates only Joey Votto, Carlos Pena, and Adam Dunn better in this regard.

Garden variety sluggers (A-Rod perhaps), approach the ball with what might be characterized as a lateral, or “overhand” swing. As a result, they tend to hit a lot of line drives, which often go for extra base hits.

If they hit the ball lower than normal (with an upward trajectory), it might clear the wall for a home run. If the ball is hit higher than normal, it might be a hard grounder.

On the other hand, many Pittsburghers considered Bautista’s batting (and the rest of his play), downright amateurish. That’s because it is similar to what many will see in Little League, with “underhand” hitting, much as underhand pitching is a staple of that level of play.

That’s because Bautista doesn’t hit baseballs laterally, which requires power. Meaning that he hits relatively few line drives or grounders. Instead, he pops them up.

If the near side of the baseball can be likened to a clock, Bautista might be hitting it at “five o’clock,” instead of two, three or four o’clock, like the more conventional sluggers.

This leads to one of the highest ratio of fly balls to total contact (54 percent) around. Bautista’s batting average is low because a large percentage of his contacted balls are caught.

But most of the ones that aren’t caught go for extra bases. Combine that with a top five home run to fly ball ratio and the product of the two is the league-leading home run total.

Bautista’s approach reminds me of the story of how David, a Biblical teenage warrior, beat a giant named Goliath (in an “exhibition” match).

After rejecting an offer from the King of the King’s personal sword and body armor (the best of conventional weaponry), David won the battle with a “light weapon” (a slingshot) that he knew how to wield better than anyone else.

Bautista has hit 50 home runs in the “season” that began September 1, 2009 and ended yesterday. (I am stopping the clock a day early to compensate for the fact that last year’s season lasted a day longer than this year’s.)

During this time, he has shown the ability to hit 8-12 home runs every other month. If he averages eight home runs in his three best months, plus some random long balls in “off” months, he could knock somewhere over 30 balls out of the park next year.

If he averages 10 home runs in his three best months, the season total could be in the low 40s. And if the average is 12 for the three best months, the total could even approximate 50. In any event, he’s not going back to 15 home runs a year (or 20 if annualized over a full season).

“Submarine” (underhand) pitchers are a rarity in Major League Baseball. But when they exist, they are often quite effective because they have an unusual style that works for them, and is different from what most hitters are used to (Think Kent Tekulve, Chad Bradford, or Mike Myers).

There will probably be only a few of them, but there is room for “submarine” batters like Jose Bautista as well.

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