The reason Bobby Abreu finally gets his first action figure in MLB Series 14 is because he won the home run hitting contest at the All-Star game last year. Comerica Park was supposed to be a pitcher's park, but set records with 24 home runs in a single round and a grand total of 41, shattering the records set by Miguel Tejada the previous year when he hit 15 in one round and 27 overall.
2005 was a pretty good year for Abreu, who was National League Player of the Month for May, when he hit .396 and slammed 11 home runs, becoming the first player in major league history to hit nine homers in a 10-game stretch. Abreu was not really known as a slugger: in ten seasons he has 190 home runs, but those go with 241 stolen bases. He has never hit more than 31 home runs in a season, but he has had a pair of 30-30 seasons and driven in over 100 runs four of the last five years. The nice thing is that even before he won the home run hitting contest Abreu was finally getting his props. In 2004 he made the All-Star team as the "32nd-man" is on-line voting for the final spot, and then in 2005 he was named a starting, finishing second to Jim Edmonds of the Cardinals in the NL voting.
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