Here is the information I researched and wrote for the random graphics I have displayed on Michael A. Taylor in recent seasons at Guaranteed Rate Field (Taylor joined the Sox on Wednesday):
*Clubbed a career-high 21 home runs for the Twins in 2023
*Set Twins/Senators record with 17 home runs out of the ninth spot in 2023
*Joins Jimmie Hall, Kirby Puckett, Torii Hunter and Byron Buxton as Twins’ center fielders with a 20-homer season (2023)
*468-foot home run on Sept. 29 was the Twins’ longest of the 2023 season
*First Royals’ position player to strike out two batters in a pitching performance (July 9, 2022) … He got Cleveland’s Franmil Reyes and Oscar Mercado looking in the ninth inning of the Royals’ 13-1 home loss.
*Gold Glove winner in the outfield for the 2021 Royals
*Career .275 hitter with four homers and 10 RBI in 21 postseason games
*Hit .333 while appearing in eight of 19 postseason games for the World Series champion Nationals in 2019
*Homered twice in the 2017 N.L. Division Series for the Nats vs. the Cubs (Grand slam in Game 4, 3-run shot in Game 5)
*Hit the first postseason grand slam in Expos’/Nationals’ history (Game 4 2017 NLDS)
*Tied Daulton Varsho for the big league lead among outfielders with 19 defensive runs saved for the 2022 Royals
*Gold Glove in 2022 was the first by a Royals’ outfielder since Willie Wilson in 1980
And some other nuggets …
*Joins the Sox Paul Konerko (2005 World Series), the Giants’ Will Clark (1989 NLCS), the Braves’ Eddie Perez (1998 NLDS), the Dodgers’ James Loney (2008 NLDS), the Cubs’ Miguel Montero (2016 NLCS) and the Dodgers’ Kike Hernandez (2017 NLCS) as players with postseason grand slams in Chicago
*493-foot blast for the Nationals at Coors Field on Aug. 20, 2014 was the longest in the Majors that season
*Joins the White Sox Geoff Blum (Game 3, 2005), the Yankees’ Jim Mason (Game 3, 1976) and the Red Sox Bobby Kiley (Game 4, 2007) as the only players to homer in their only World Series at bat
*Played every position but catcher in his pro career … Has not played second, third or short in his big league career