Devin Schwisow, the 30-year old Phoenix Speed Devils' slugging first baseman, is knocking baseballs out of the park at record rates, and yesterday collected three dingers against the Portland Wild Things. Unfortunately, the last place Speed Devils continue to have the worst pitching (an unbelievable 7.37 team ERA!) and worst fielding (-16.0 team ZR) in baseball, and lost 11-8. Schwisow, the 1970 MGL Rookie of the Year and 4-time All-Star, drove in 7 runs himself.
In a year in which the long ball is once again a thing (after the Great Power Outage of 1976), Schwisow is easily the leading producer of them, as his nearest competitor in all of the WPK is Baltimore's Chris Tobin at 17. At his current pace, Schwisow would finish the season with 67 home runs. The most ever hit by a player in a single WPK season is 50, which was done once by Jamison Bash (1966) and once by Eric Brakeall (1969).
(Okay, let's ponder that a bit. The guys who are tied for the most HR's in a season are named Bash and Brakeall. How wonderful is that!
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