recent non-roster invitees with 30 home runs--braun

[djoctagone]

carlos pena was a non-roster invitee this season for the devil rays and has become the fifth player in the last 25 years to hit 30-plus home runs after being a non-roster invitee to spring training.

 

he joins: dave kingman (35, oakland, 1984), albert pujols (37, st. louis, 2001), john jaha (35, oakland, 1999) and jose guillen (31, cincinnati and oakland, 2003).

 

with ryan braun currently at 25, he has a shot at this feat.

[clancyphile]

Rob Deer was a non-roster invitee in 1986, when he had 33 homers.

[djoctagone]

currently at 27, ryan braun is likely to hit 30 by regular season's end.

 

is rob deer's 33 a club record for a non-roster player? it'd be wonderful for braun to beat that.

[djoctagone]

nice . . . real nice.

 

30 homers from a spring training non-roster player.

[JJHardy7]

That's good and all, but I don't think it's that crazy of a thing that he was a spring training non-roster player. We all knew why he wasn't up with the team and we all knew he could hit...maybe not this well, but it wasn't like Braun was a below average 30+ year old that came up and did it.