A pair of AL stars have bested Double Mendoza single-season records in major stat categories.
Helena's slugging first baseman, Pascual Ordonez, has set new single-season records for both home runs and runs batted in. Ordonez smacked 78 homers and knocked in 192 runs this season.
The previous record for homers was 75, set by Syracuse's Ivan DeSoto in Season 5 (the last "steroid-era" season). Chad Bieser (then with the Biscuits) set the old RBI mark of 179 way back in Season 1.
Ordonez was a highly sought-after ($25.7MM bonus) IFA in Season 4. He debuted in Season 6 with a sold .281/30/80 season, and foreshadowed this year's monster performance with 51 and 57 homers in Season 7 and 8. He made the All-Star Team in Season 7 and picked up 2 Player Of The Week Awards this year.
On the pitching side, Honolulu's Bret Young topped the old wins record (25 by Memphis' Robert Knight in Season 6) with 27. Young was an original minor-leaguer of the Honolulu franchise, and won a Cy Young award in Season 5.
