Player Profile - Brian Roberts

Roberts started to spray flyballs to all fields, and in 2004 many of those flyballs turned into doubles -- in fact, 50 of them, the record for a switch hitter, and tops in Orioles franchise history for a single season. In 2005, the doubles onslaught continued, but with a dramatic increase in homerun production. 2006 has the ball on the ground a bit more, which accounts for some of the dropoff in power production, but he continues to hit the ball to all fields, and has managed to approach double digits in homeruns following year after year of very low single digit totals.