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The Yankees have promoted 20-year-old Melky Cabrera to start tonight in center field after one week of Triple-A experience. (Are you expecting Wendell Wilkie?) I saw Melky at a Double-A Trenton Thunder game earlier this year. He was part of a ninth-inning, come-from-behind rally to win the game, and I couldn't stop saying "Melky" all day.
You won't be surprised to find that he is the first major-league Melky (the closest was Mellie Wolfgang, a right-hander with the WWI White Sox), he will be the tenth Cabrera to grace a major-league roster, six of whom are active, making Cabrera one of the most popular names among foreign-born major-leaguers. Here are the "leaders":
| Surname | Num |
| Hernandez | 26 |
| Martinez | 25 |
| Rodriguez | 22 |
| Gonzalez | 20 |
| Garcia | 18 |
| Perez | 15 |
| Pena | 15 |
| Lopez | 14 |
| Rivera | 12 |
| Ramirez | 11 |
| Sanchez | 11 |
| Cruz | 11 |
| Cabrera | 10 |
| Ortiz | 9 |
| Valdez | 9 |
| Diaz | 9 |
| Torres | 9 |
| Guzman | 9 |
| Alvarez | 9 |
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