Afternoon Baseball

ESPN.com - Tim Kurkjian

Franco is hitting .299 with a .503 slugging average (lifetime: .300/.420) and is a HR shy of 10, on pace for 52 RBIs as a part-time player. Even Nolan Ryan was only 46 during his last year in the bigs, and he spent nearly all of that year being hurt.
Even more amazing, as I've posted on him before, is he got off to a terrible start. He hit .243/.263/.297 in April and .217/.280/.370 in May. But he's hit .372, .294, and .407 since then with 7 HR and 33 RBI in 104 AB since.
Post-All-Star break: .354 with a .970 OPS.

He's also at .371/.436/.514 in 35 pinch-hit AB, hits .314 with a .608 slugging with runners in scoring position and amazingly, hits .293 after having an 0-2 count against him.