More Amazing Delmon Young facts and figures

I have to say, that is the longest ever quote I have ever heard from him. Opening up to the media at long last! Anywho. Back to the stats that blew even me away. Me the ardent and unhealthy Delmon Young supporter. To wit:

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I	Split	G	GS	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	ROE	BAbip	tOPS+
	April/March	103	98	406	377	46	93	16	1	6	45	12	5	23	71	.247	.288	.342	.630	129	16	1	0	5	0	7	.285	70
	May	111	103	442	404	49	103	18	3	7	49	4	2	30	90	.255	.308	.366	.674	148	11	3	0	5	3	5	.308	82
	June	117	114	464	451	55	141	28	0	10	71	5	3	9	78	.313	.325	.441	.767	199	18	1	0	3	1	3	.358	105
	July	88	85	364	340	42	124	28	2	9	60	5	2	12	52	.365	.393	.538	.931	183	5	7	0	5	2	3	.405	149
	August	108	103	445	417	56	112	21	0	13	62	2	1	16	75	.269	.300	.412	.712	172	17	5	1	6	4	4	.296	90
	Sept/Oct	133	131	560	529	61	155	34	2	16	77	6	6	20	102	.293	.323	.456	.779	241	15	6	0	5	5	4	.334

Holy Mackerel!If those numbers are a bit tough to decipher, they can be found at Baseball-Reference. They are his career splits from month to month. Through his career, he has always been awful in the first two months of his season. He improves dramatically later. Like, he becomes transcendent. A .365 CAREER batting average in July?! Kept down are his total games played because he was benched frequently his first two years here because he was given up on after those first two abysmal months.
Most of his home runs and RBI come late in the year too. His power stroke comes around in August and really takes off in September.
What am I trying to say? A little patience with Young goes a long way. I have always said that this team needs to get more right handed, and I hope he can stick around, and the team and fans can be patient with him. I will always cheer for him, and any team that has the patience to wait for his bat to come around, even if his days with the Twins are over.

(As for his fielding, no matter how it looks, he is INFINITELY better than Kubel and Cuddyer. Sure, he doesn’t look that fast, but he IS much faster than both, especially Kubel. Let me ask you this. If a player gets to 10 more balls but drops 5 of them, doesn’t he STILL make 5 more outs? Young is a better outfielder, plain and simple. Parenthesees over)