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Cincinnati Reds with fewer career dingers than Tyler Naquin

Tyler Naquin has been a member of the Cincinnati Reds for about eleven total seconds, but in that time he has shown himself to be a dinger-socker of epic proportions. Hat-tip to the Pittsburgh Pirates there, I guess.

Anwyay, it’s hardly out of the question that Naquin could blast four homers in six games. In his rookie campaign with Cleveland back in 2016, he socked 14 in just 365 PA, roughly a 25 dinger-per-650-PA pace had he managed to play an entire season. That’s been Naquin in a nutshell for his career, though - a potent bat capable of socking dingers, but had he managed to play an entire season being a constant bugaboo as injuries and underperformance related to said injuries doing their damnedest to keep him off the big league field more often than not.