Aristides Aquino may be just a rookie, but he has already been immortalized in Cooperstown in one sense.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame announced on Thursday that they were now in possession of the bat that the Cincinnati Reds phenom used to tie a major league record earlier this month with a three-homer game against the Chicago Cubs. The outburst gave him seven home runs in his first ten career games, tying the mark previously set by Trevor Story of the Colorado Rockies.
.@Aristide_Aquino's three home runs on August 10th tied a major league record and traveled a combined 1,181 feet. Now, the bat he used has traveled a bit further, to Cooperstown, where it will be preserved as a piece of baseball history. Photo: @reds pic.twitter.com/y6uj4LD7mg
— National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum (@baseballhall) August 29, 2019
On the season, the 25-year-old is now slicing a scorching .315 with a 1.165 OPS on the heels of 13 home runs and 29 RBIs in just 26 games thus far.
Aquino may be the hottest player in baseball less than a month into his MLB career, and now he has one of the hottest new items in Cooperstown as well.
