If Your Birthday is February 3rd

 
...you share it with Texas Rangers 2nd baseman Rougned Odor. Joining Nomar Mazzara and Joey Gallol among the club's core of rising young sluggers, the Venezuelan has belted 30 or more homers in each of the last two seasons. And he's just turning 24.

Also on today's cake and candles crew:

Lucas Duda (right), also knows how to clear the fences. In his last three healthy seasons, he's homered 27 or more times. But like dozens of other players, he apparently picked the wrong winter to be a free agent. The longtime Met, who finished out 2017 with the Rays, remains unsigned 10 days before spring training begins.

 Skip Schumaker spent 11 seasons as a utilityman with the Cardinals, Reds and Dodgers -- and is now the Padres 1st base coach.

Bake McBride, the speedy outfielder and 1974 National League Rookie of the Year with the Cardinals, and a key contributor to the Phillies first World Championship team, in 1980.

Victor Rojas had a brief career as a minor league pitcher with the Angels and today is their TV play-by-play voice. This talented broadcaster has also called games for the Diamondbacks and Rangers and spent a year with MLB Network. He's also part of a two-generation, two-career baseball family. Victor's dad Cookie Rojas had a long career as an infielder, primarily with the Phillies and Royals -- and these days, is also a media member, as a member of the Marlins Spanish language broadcast team.

And the greatest player ever born on February 3rd:
Fred Lynn, who made history in 1975 as the first player ever to win Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player titles the same season. The nine-time all star batted a career .283 with 306 homers over 17 big league seasons. And while his stats weren't quite Cooperstown calibre, his time in Boston led to his 2002 induction into the Red Sox Hall of Fame.

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