| When you think of baseball, it can look an awful | | | | you clock a.385 average and slug 9 home runs in |
| lot like a duel built for two. It's a team sport, of | | | | the first month of the season, you have to be |
| course, but predicated on head-to-head matchups | | | | considered a threat from every angle at the plate. |
| between pitcher and batter. For that reason, the | | | | The sweet lefty swing of Cano is tailor-made for |
| effect a power hitter can have on games or | | | | the Yankees Stadium right field, but Cano is |
| whole series can never be underestimated. Young | | | | having his way in parks all across the league. While |
| sluggers are putting fear into opposing pitchers | | | | many are calling him an early frontrunner for MVP, |
| every night this baseball season. Here are five to | | | | there is a long way to go. A batting title, on the |
| watch in HD on satellite TV. | | | | other hand, is never out of reach for a pure hitter |
| 1. Evan Longoria. When the Rays recently battled | | | | of his caliber. Watch Cano on YES. |
| the Kansas City Royals to a 1-0 victory - Zack | | | | 4. Hanley Ramirez. Built on the Tejada/Jeter |
| Greinke taking the tough loss - one could not help | | | | shortstop mold, Ramirez is no Phil Rizzuto when |
| but notice the run came from a single hit. Longoria | | | | he picks up his bat. One of the few people who |
| got the AL's best pitcher Greinke for a home run | | | | can say 'I hit a home run off Tim Lincecum' in |
| which proved to be the deciding factor. Longoria is | | | | recent times, it seems no pitcher can get the |
| a threat anywhere, anytime, one of the most | | | | best of Hanley all the time. He's an MVP candidate |
| fear-inducing hitters in the game and still with his | | | | with all of the tools a ballplayer needs, but |
| whole career before him. | | | | unfortunate to play in the same league as Albert |
| 2. Jason Heyward. Definitely the most exciting | | | | Pujols. Watch Hanley strike fear in opposing |
| thing about the 2010 Atlanta Braves, Heyward | | | | pitchers all summer long with a satellite TV HD |
| has been raking ever since making the big club | | | | baseball package. |
| and is waiting for the rest of the team to follow | | | | 5. Kendry Morales. While Morales has been in |
| suit. With the pitching they are getting, the Braves | | | | professional ball since anchoring the Cuban team |
| definitely have to hit more while hoping Jurrjens, | | | | from the cleanup spot, he's still young and growing |
| Lowe et al return to form. Nonetheless, there's | | | | by MLB standards. Switch-hitting and always |
| nothing like watching a young slugger take his | | | | slugging, Morales has put dents in the reputations |
| mighty cuts and connect plenty of the time. | | | | of enough pitchers at this point that he is a |
| Rookie of the Year candidate in 2010? There | | | | legitimate threat in the home run title category. |
| seems to be no limit to Heyward's upside. | | | | Castro definitely wishes he had his slugger back. |
| 3. Robinson Cano. Is Robby Cano a slugger? When | | | | Watch Morales on Angel HD networks. |