{"id":762090,"date":"2026-04-29T20:09:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762090\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T20:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:09:11","slug":"elly-de-la-cruz-sal-stewart-on-pace-for-reds-first-40-40-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/762090\/","title":{"rendered":"Elly De La Cruz, Sal Stewart on pace for Reds&#8217; first 40-40 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 29, 2026, 3:54 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<ul class=\"gnt_sh\">\n<li class=\"gnt_sh_li\">Elly De La Cruz and Sal Stewart have Cincinnati Reds fans thinking about which player might become the first in franchise history with 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases.<\/li>\n<li class=\"gnt_sh_li\">Outfielder Eric Davis came close to a 40-40 season in 1987, hitting 37 homers and stealing 50 bases in just 129 games.<\/li>\n<li class=\"gnt_sh_li\">The six players in MLB history with a 40\u201340 season are Jose\u0301 Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Ronald Acun\u0303a Jr. and Shohei Ohtani.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It&#8217;s still April, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/reds\/2026\/01\/17\/elly-de-la-cruz-quad-strain-reds-nixed-world-baseball-classic-participation-dominican-republic\/88229246007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elly De La Cruz<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/reds\/2025\/04\/13\/sal-stewart-reds-top-infield-prospect-hits-walk-off-grand-slam-chattanooga-lookouts-third-baseman\/83068936007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sal Stewart<\/a> have <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/cincinnati-reds\/241\" data-autotag=\"203cc92a-9021-409d-8007-55b0c7972c44\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Cincinnati Reds<\/a> fans thinking about which player might become the first in franchise history with 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">De La Cruz, who has 10 homers and 8 stolen bases, currently is on pace for 55 homers and 44 stolen bases. Stewart, who has 9 home runs and 7 stolen bases, is on pace for 50 homers and 40 steals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Outfielder <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/reds\/2024\/08\/29\/barry-larkin-cincinnati-reds-eric-davis-number-44-jersey-retired-elly-de-la-cruz-adam-dunn\/75006687007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Davis<\/a> came close to a 40-40 season in 1987, hitting 37 homers and stealing 50 bases in just 129 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The two other players in Reds history with 30-30 seasons are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/reds\/2026\/04\/22\/brandon-phillips-calls-cincinnati-home-reds-hall-of-fame\/89744161007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Phillips<\/a> in 2007 (30 home runs, 32 steals) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/reds\/2026\/04\/15\/sal-stewart-hits-reds-team-leading-sixth-home-run\/89336596007\/\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Barry Larkin<\/a> in 1996 (33 homers, 36 stolen bases).<\/p>\n<p>How rare is a 40-40 season in MLB?<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The six players in MLB history with a 40\u201340 season are Jose\u0301 Canseco, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez, Alfonso Soriano, Ronald Acun\u0303a Jr. and Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n<p>Expert MLB daily picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (mlbpicks)|e|auto spike click:7|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/baseball\/mlb\/picks\">Unique MLB betting insights only at USA TODAY<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ohtani was the most recent to do it, in 2024, and the only player with a 50\u201350 season.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:440px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/89413636007-pittsburgh-pirates-at-cincinnati-reds-2739.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Elly De La Cruz and Sal Stewart could join elite company with a 40-40 season.\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 29, 2026, 3:54 p.m. ET Elly De La Cruz and Sal Stewart have Cincinnati Reds fans thinking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":762091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[216235,1582,276,2961,224,5337,241059,241060,313248,228906,241061,284022,216314,228907,216323,216244,231736,216318,216238],"class_list":["post-762090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-accessfree","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-sstssportsmlbreds","tag-sstsnreds","tag-tagbarry-bonds","tag-tagbaseball","tag-tagcincinnati-reds","tag-tagelly-de-la-cruz","tag-tagexclude-from-paywall-logic-testing","tag-tagmlb","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagoverall-neutral","tag-tagshohei-ohtani","tag-tagsports-news","tag-typestory"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116489811792418886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}