Rod Barajas is Electrifying!

In Hebrew, "Baruchas" means blessings, and to the Mets, "Barajas" should mean just the same. Rod Barajas has definitely been a blessing for the Metropolitans this season most recently hitting a game winning home run in the 9th inning last night to lift the Mets over the Reds and get them back on track after a tough weekend in Philly and extra-inning loss on Monday.

Last night's homer marked Barajas's fourth knock in as many games for him including his second multi-homer game of the season on Friday night against he Phillies. The shot also put Barajas not only in the team lead for home runs this season, but also tied him for 13th in the majors and first among catchers overall. That's right, Rod Barajas is tied with Albert Pujols right now for home runs. He also has more homers than defending AL MVP Joe Mauer and cross town catching superstar Jorge Posada.

I took a look back at Mike Piazza's stats as a Met to this point in the season and only 3 times did he have 7 home runs by May 5th - that was in 2000, 2001, and 2002. In those season, Piazza ended up with 38, 36, and 33 home runs respectively. If we see that kind of production out of Barajas by season's end, we'll have to add him to the end of this list, if I may quote myself from our preseason catcher preview post, "From Grote to Carter to Hundley to Piazza to LoDuca, the Mets seem to thrive when they get good production from behind the dish."

As he keeps this up, he's going to electrify this Mets lineup better than a Citizens Bank Park security guard and get our boys in blue and orange back to the top of the NL East standings before you know it. Stay excited folks, drink it up, and Let's Go Mets!