MLB: Checking in on Delgado v. Jacobs

April and May? Not a great time for me to compare Jacobs, who I have gone on the record saying should not have been traded, to Delgado.

Mid-June from the Stockholm airport? Better time to compare the two!

Just to be unfair, let's compare their stats over the last 30 days:
Mike Jacobs
.359 5HR 13RBI 10R 11K 0E

Carlos Delgado
.240 5HR 19RBI 13R 19K 3E

See? See? And let's not forget the 8-year age difference.

All right, to put it in better perspective, we'll include the brief (month and a half) period when Mike was getting less hits than that group that recorded Macarena.

Full season...
Jacobs
.269 10HR 39RBI 25R 48K 2E 216AB

Delgado
.261 20HR 52RBI 43R 62K 6E 268AB

So even including Mike's .198 average through may 14, he has already come back and passed Delgado in average. The HRs are obviously a large disparity, but the longer Jacobs plays the more it looks like he's going to be a pretty good power hitting first baseman. For someone other than the Mets.

Still, I'll admit defeat if Delgado gets the Mets into the World Series this season. Even though it'll really be because of Davey.