Colorado’s Trevor Story is the Story of the First Week of the Baseball Season

Colorado Rockies rookie shortstop Trevor Story blasted his seventh home run of the season on April 10th in the Rockies’ 6-3 win over the San Diego Padres. To say that Story, 23, is off to a tremendous start would be understating the case by several orders of magnitude. He’s hit seven home runs in the team’s first six games, a major league record for most homers in those first six games, plus he holds the record for most home runs by a player in his first six games.

Story did show some power in the minor leagues, though nothing as notable he has shown in the early going of the 2016 season. Last year, Story split his time between Double A New Britain of the Eastern League and Triple A Albuquerque of the Pacific Coast League, with remarkably similar statistics. He hit 20 doubles and 10 home runs with 40 RBIs with each club; he had 72 hits at New Britain and 71 at Albuquerque, in 256 at bats with each team. He hit .281 with a .523 slugging percentage at New Britain and .277, .504 at Albuquerque.

So far this season, Story has 12 RBIs to go with those seven homers, a 1.111 slugging percentage, a 1.468 OPS and a .333 batting average. He’ll come back down to earth, probably sooner rather than later, but hitting second in the order ahead of Carlos Gonzalez means pitchers won’t be pitching around him, and batting in hitter friendly Coors Field for home games could result in some hefty numbers.

Here’s homer number seven, hit off the Padres’ Brandon Maurer at Coors Field that rocketed halfway to Wyoming: