Happy Birthday–June 15

Babe Dahlgren (1912)
Bernice Gera (1931)
Mario Cuomo (1932)
Billy Williams (1938)
Ty Cline (1939)
Bruce Dal Canton (1941)
Champ Summers (1946)
Ken Henderson (1946)
Dusty Baker (1949)
Lance Parrish (1956)
Brett Butler (1957)
Wade Boggs (1958)
Ramiro Mendoza (1972)
Tony Clark (1972)
Andy Pettitte (1972)
Tim Lincecum (1984)
Trevor Plouffe (1986)

Former New York Governor Mario Cuomo was an outfielder for the Brunswick Pirates of the Georgia-Florida League in 1952.

Infielder Trevor Plouffe made his major league debut this season.  He was born in West Hills, California and was selected by Minnesota in the first round of the 2004 amateur draft.  He has progressed at a pace of roughly a level per season.  His minor league numbers are not bad but not terribly impressive, either.  His highest batting average is .274 and his highest OPS is .736 (both at New Britain, 2007); his lowest batting average is .223 and his lowest OPS is .645 (both at Beloit, 2006).  He had four brief stints with Minnesota in 2010, getting a few days in May, a week in June, about a week in August, and coming back for a September call-up.  He has started to develop some power in the minors, hitting 13 homers in Rochester in 2009 and 15 there in 2010.  He has had about a month in Minnesota so far this season, and has played well in Rochester when he’s been there.  He turns 25 today, so he still has time, but not an over-abundance of it.  If he’s going to have a significant major league career, he needs to move into a higher gear pretty soon.