Carlos Beltran
Houston Astros
Unlike the time-limited showings we are now starting to get on the offensive accomplishments of Carlos Beltran over his 20 seasons in the big leagues, here’s a screen that will remain still long enough to wrap our minds around this man’s deservedness for great honors down the not too far distant road. Let’s hope he arrived here in Houston in time to be the major veteran cog we have needed to keep the Astros’ round World Series wheel rolling all the way to that long-awaited late October World Series victory we’ve been hoping for since 1962 and all those other years it really was – nothing more – than a dream.
Thank you for coming back to us, Carlos Beltran. We shall hope that you someday retire with the triple-sweet taste of having won a World Series, retired, and entered the Hall of Fame wearing the famous “H Star” logo of the Houston Astros. Pull off that hat trick and most, if not all of us, shall be happy to put aside all memory of what happened after the 2004 season.
If not all, winning heals so many wounds in baseball.
Here’s The Carlos Beltran Career Scoreboard on how well he’s done for 20 seasons through all games of yesterday, Sunday, June 11, 2017 with Home Runs, Doubles, Runs Scored, and Runs Batted In:
HOME RUNS
DOUBLES
| Carlos Beltran Doubles Standings All Time Leaders Thru 6/11/2017 ”Thank You, Baseball Almanac.com” |
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| Name | Doubles | Rank |
| Tris Speaker | 792 | 1 |
| Pete Rose | 746 | 2 |
| Stan Musial | 725 | 3 |
| Ty Cobb | 724 | 4 |
| Craig Biggio | 668 | 5 |
| George Brett | 665 | 6 |
| Nap Lajoie | 657 | 7 |
| Carl Yastrzemski | 646 | 8 |
| Honus Wagner | 640 | 9 |
| David Ortiz | 632 | 10 |
| Hank Aaron | 624 | 11 |
| Albert Pujols | 608 | 12 |
| Paul Molitor | 605 | 13 |
| Paul Waner | 605 | |
| Cal Ripken, Jr. | 603 | 15 |
| Barry Bonds | 601 | 16 |
| Luis Gonzalez | 596 | 17 |
| Adrian Beltre | 594 | 18 |
| Todd Helton | 592 | 19 |
| Rafael Palmeiro | 585 | 20 |
| Robin Yount | 583 | 21 |
| Wade Boggs | 578 | 22 |
| Bobby Abreu | 574 | 23 |
| Charlie Gehringer | 574 | |
| Ivan Rodriguez | 572 | 25 |
| Jeff Kent | 560 | 26 |
| Eddie Murray | 560 | |
| Carlos Beltran | 550 | 28 |
RUNS SCORED
RUNS BATTED IN
| Carlos Beltran RBI Standings All Time Leaders Thru 6/11/2017 ”Thank You, Baseball Almanac.com” |
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| Name | RBI | Rank |
| Hank Aaron | 2,297 | 1 |
| Babe Ruth | 2,213 | 2 |
| Alex Rodriguez | 2,086 | 3 |
| Barry Bonds | 1,996 | 4 |
| Lou Gehrig | 1,995 | 5 |
| Stan Musial | 1,951 | 6 |
| Ty Cobb | 1,937 | 7 |
| Jimmie Foxx | 1,922 | 8 |
| Eddie Murray | 1,917 | 9 |
| Willie Mays | 1,903 | 10 |
| Cap Anson | 1,879 | 11 |
| Albert Pujols | 1,862 | 12 |
| Mel Ott | 1,860 | 13 |
| Carl Yastrzemski | 1,844 | 14 |
| Ted Williams | 1,839 | 15 |
| Ken Griffey, Jr. | 1,836 | 16 |
| Rafael Palmeiro | 1,835 | 17 |
| Dave Winfield | 1,833 | 18 |
| Manny Ramirez | 1,831 | 19 |
| Al Simmons | 1,827 | 20 |
| Frank Robinson | 1,812 | 21 |
| David Ortiz | 1,768 | 22 |
| Honus Wagner | 1,732 | 23 |
| Frank Thomas | 1,704 | 24 |
| Reggie Jackson | 1,702 | 25 |
| Jim Thome | 1,699 | 26 |
| Cal Ripken, Jr. | 1,695 | 27 |
| Gary Sheffield | 1,676 | 28 |
| Sammy Sosa | 1,667 | 29 |
| Tony Perez | 1,652 | 30 |
| Ernie Banks | 1,636 | 31 |
| Harold Baines | 1,628 | 32 |
| Chipper Jones | 1,623 | 33 |
| Goose Goslin | 1,609 | 34 |
| Nap Lajoie | 1,599 | 35 |
| George Brett | 1,595 | 36 |
| Mike Schmidt | 1,595 | |
| Andre Dawson | 1,591 | 38 |
| Rogers Hornsby | 1,584 | 39 |
| Harmon Killebrew | 1,584 | |
| Al Kaline | 1,583 | 41 |
| Miguel Cabrera | 1,581 | 42 |
| Adrian Beltre | 1,577 | 43 |
| Jake Beckley | 1,575 | 44 |
| Carlos Beltran | 1,560 | 45 |
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Bill McCurdy
Principal Writer
Editor, Publisher
The Pecan Park Eagle
The Pecan Park Eagle 
June 13, 2017 at 3:08 am |
Also check Beltran’s career percentage on stolen base attempts. It’s exceptional.
June 15, 2017 at 2:05 pm |
I know this is a Carlos Beltran column, but I’m looking for a place to work something in on another player. I had the pleasure of seeing the MLB debut last night of a young man named Derek Fisher. In his first MLB game, vs. the Texas Rangers, Fisher made a lasting impression. In his very first at bat in the 2nd inning, the left-hander launched a monstrously high opposite field fly ball to very deep left where it was caught for an impressive out. What impressed about that is how you knew he didn’t get a very good piece of that ball, and yet he did quite a lot with it anyway. His second time up in the 4th, with the Astros nursing a thin 2-0 lead, a runner on first and one out, he patiently worked the count full and then drew his first MLB walk. We didn’t score, but he did his part. In the 6th inning with Texas still very much in the game trailing 0-4, Fisher led off with an authoritative homerun, again to the opposite field. Jake Marisnick immediately followed with his own opposite field homerun and it was feeling very much like our game – which understates the matter since Fisher came to bat again later in the same inning and drove in our 8th run of the inning with a base hit. George Springer also had 2 hits in the inning. How many players get 2 hits in one inning in their first MLB game? It was quite a debut, and while it was only one game, it wouldn’t be at all surprising to me if the name of Derek Fisher also features prominently on one of these leader lists, alongside his senior citizen teammate, Carlos Beltran.
June 15, 2017 at 2:37 pm |
There was another impressive debut in this game, by a youngster named Francis Martes. He made an unimpressive relief appearance a few days ago, but last night he made his debut as a major league starter. At a time when the Astros are hurting for quality starting pitching, this young man displayed what appears to be a frightening curve ball and blazing mid-90s heat, limiting the Rangers to 3 hits and one run over 5 innings. It was his last inning, the 5th, that was most impressive. Still with a pretty low pitch count, the leadoff batter, Rangers catcher Jonathan Lucroy, got to Martes for a double into the LC gap. Then he walked slugger Joey Gallo (who later in the game hit a 465 foot homerun to dead center that landed on top of the big green box that sits in front of the place where Tal’s Hill used to be. This homer would have cleared Tal’s Hill with plenty of room to spare beyond the 436 foot mark.) Martes then hit Jurickson Profar. Bases loaded, no out. Even before plunking Profar, I told the 24 year-old young man sitting next to me, who was born in Moscow and moved to the U.S. at the age of 16, and who was attending the very first baseball game of his young life, that I though Martes should come out as he was looking like he was losing command of his curve ball. But only after the Profar HBP did our brain trust visit the mound. As management and infielders circled around young Martes for a pow-wow, I confidently pointed out to my young friend the Astros pitcher warming up in the bullpen and predicted he soon would be walking towards the mound, with the idea being to protect the young pitcher’s delicate 2-0 lead and his delicate young rookie ego from a confidence-shattering implosion. I was thus surprised to see all the brain trust leaving the mound with Martes still holding the baseball. Thus, with the bases loaded and no out, Martes struck out Jared Hoying. Then he walked young Delino DeShields, forcing in the first Rangers run, and I felt sure Martes now would be removed. But, no one arrived to extract the young man, and he proceeded to induce a dinky infield pop-up from Shin-Soo Choo and got Nomar Mazara looking at a called third strike to end the inning with no further damage. Martes looked poised and composed throughout the nail-biting experience, and I decided to look up his age on my roster. He is 21 years old. As Al Pacino famously said in “Scent of a Woman”, “Oooowah!”