If Your Birthday is September 28th...


...you share it with Eddie Rosario, one of the Twins' deep lineup of power hitters. His 32 home runs in 2019 were part of Minnesota's record-setting season total of 307.

Ryan Zimmerman spent 15 seasons with the Nationals, capped by the franchise's 2019 World Series champions. A lifetime .279 hitter, he smacked 270 home runs before deciding to sit out the virus-impacted 2020 season.

Manuel Margot, the defense-first center fielder traded last winter from the Padres to the Rays.

Slade Heathcott, the Yankees 1st round draft pick in 2009, played just briefly in the majors. While he did belt a couple of home runs, and hit .400 (10-for-25), his big league career lasted only 17 games.

Todd Worrell, the Cardinals closer of the mid- and late-1980s, who resumed his career after Tommy John surgery and a rotator cuff tear cost him a pair of seasons. He saved 256 games over 11 years, the final five (1992-'97) with the Dodgers.

Grant Jackson spent 18 years in the majors, and aside from brief stretches with the Royals, Expos and Yankees, split his time evenly between the Phillies, Orioles and Pirates. A member of the Orioles that beat the Pirates in the 1971 World Series, he reversed the story eight years later, when he was on the Pirates club that defeated Baltimore.

And we remember:

Whitey Witt played alongside Babe Ruth between 1922 and '25, and as the club's center fielder and leadoff batter, holds the distinction of being the first Yankee ever to hit in a game at Yankee Stadium (he grounded out in the bottom of the 1st inning). One of the Bambino's best friends, he was the last surviving member of the 1923 Yankees, the franchise's first World Series champs, passing away just before his 93rd birthday in 1988. 


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