Kevin Youkilis

[shaunsimpson]

In case anyone is missing it - and I don't know how you can since Boston is one of three or four teams on Sportscenter and ESPN - Kevn Youkilis is having a great year for the Boston Red Sox.

He is currently:

AVG .343 | HR 6 | RBI 24 | OBP .427 | SLG .530

I imagine he will get a raise over his 424,500 he is currently making.

[colucat]

Some good pub on Kevin from ESPN:

Youkilis has Boggs-like qualitiesposted: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | Feedback | Print Entry

If Wade Boggs wasn't in the Hall of Fame, you could say that Kevin Youkilis is a right-handed Wade Boggs, because of all the similarities between the two. Neither was ever considered a top prospect, neither is blessed with what scouts would call a good baseball body, and neither Boggs nor Youkilis has ever been confused with Rickey Henderson or Jose Reyes for foot speed.


And Youkilis grinds through his at-bats, likes Boggs once did. He works the count, fouls off tough pitches, makes opposing pitchers sweat. He gets a lot of cheap hits -- flares and dinkers and dunkers -- in the same way that Boggs and Tony Gwynn and Derek Jeter get a lot of cheap hits, the classic sign of good hitters. Now Youkilis has a 21-game hitting streak, nine consecutive multihit games, and he is hitting .358.