| Date | News |
| 6/03/10 | Abreu went 2-for-4 against the Royals with his 500th career double last night, becoming the fourth player all-time to reach 500 doubles, 250 HR, and 350 stolen bases. |
| 5/07/10 | Abreu reached safely on all five plate appearances in Boston last night with a single, double, and three walks. He is batting .270. |
| 4/23/10 | Abreu went 3-for-4 yesterday - and has five hits in his last 11 AB. He is batting .254. |
| 11/05/09 | Abreu signed a two-year contract to remain with the Angels. |
| 10/03/09 | Abreu stole his 30th base last night to join Bobby Bonds as the only players in Angels’ history with at least 100 RBI and 30 steals in the same year. Abreu has 102 RBI to go along with the 30 SB and 15 HR. Bonds had 115 RBI and 41 steals in 1977.
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| 9/30/09 | Abreu has eight hits in his past 16 at-bats, snapping out of a 2-for-27 skid. He is batting .297. |
| 9/27/09 | Abreu went 2-for-4 yesterday with a two-run home run (14), which gave him 100 RBI for the year, an accomplishment that he has attained each of the last seven seasons. Also, he needs one stolen base to become the second player in the Angels’ history with at least 100 RBI and 30 stolen bases in the same season. Bobby Bonds had 115 RBI and 41 steals in 1977. Abreu has two steals so far this month. |
| 9/12/09 | Abreu went 1-for-3 and drove in two runs last night, giving him 93 RBI on the season - seven shy of his sixth 100-RBI season in the last seven years. |
| 9/03/09 | Abreu went 0-for-2 yesterday and has four hits in his last 31 at-bats. |
| 8/13/09 | Abreu went 0-for-5 yesterday to wrap up a 2-for-22 Angels' homestand. He is still batting a solid .309. |
| 8/07/09 | Abreu went 1-for-4 with a home run (9) yesterday. The roundtripper marked the 250th of his career. He became the sixth player in Major League history to combine 250 home runs with at least 2,000 hits, 1,000 runs scored, 1,000 RBI, and 300 stolen bases.
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| 8/04/09 | Abreu won the award for American League Player of the Month for July. He batted .380 (38-100) with five doubles, four home runs and an A.L.-best 26 runs scored and 28 RBI during the month. He also posted a .550 slugging percentage and an A.L.-best .467 on-base percentage. |
| 7/22/09 | Abreu went 4-for-9 in yesterday's doubleheader sweep in KC. He reached 20 stolen bases for the 11th consecutive season when he swiped second base in the eighth inning of the first game. |
| 7/20/09 | Abreu went 2-for-4 with a game-winning home run (7) in the tenth inning last night. Since June 1, he leads the AL with 39 RBI. He is batting .394 with runners in scoring position, and needs two home runs to have 250 for his career. |
| 7/03/09 | Abreu hit two home runs (5, 6) and racked up four RBI in a 5-2 Angels' home victory over the Orioles last night. He has driven in 31 runs over the past 30 games. |
| 6/17/09 | Abreu was held out of today's starting lineup due to a stiff neck. |
| 5/22/09 | Abreu's toe injury will probably keep him out of action through the weekend. He expects to be ready to return to the Angels' lineup Monday at home. |
| 5/20/09 | Abreu left tonight’s game against Seattle after one at-bat with a toe injury. He had grounded out to shortstop to end the top of the first inning. He played the bottom of the inning in right field, then left before the bottom of the second. |
| 5/02/09 | Abreu left last night's game against the Angels after seven innings with tightness in his lower back. He had gone 1-for-3 with two walks. He also had two steals (11). |
| 4/24/09 | Abreu went 2-for-5 with his team-leading eighth stolen base, and he is yet to be caught. He also leads the Angels in hits with 22. He is batting .373. |
| 4/07/09 | In his Angels' debut, Bobby Abreu singled in the first inning to extend his hitting streak in Opening Day games to 13 - the longest such streak among active players.
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| 2/11/09 | Sports Illustrated is reporting that the Angels and Abreu have agreed to a one-year deal worth a little more than $5 million. |
| 2/11/09 | According to the Los Angeles Times, the Angels are expected to sign Abreu to a one-year contract. |
| 9/07/08 | Abreu returned to Saturday's lineup. |
| 9/05/08 | Abreu has been diagnosed with a jammed left wrist. X-rays came back negative and he is listed as day-to-day. |
| 9/05/08 | Abreu was scratched from Wednesday's game due to a sore left wrist. |
| 11/03/07 | The Yankees picked up the $16 million option on Abreu's contract yesterday. He will return as the team's every-day right fielder in 2008. |
| 3/22/07 | Abreu returned to the lineup today and smacked a 3 run homer. He looks like he'll be ready for opening day. |
| 3/18/07 | Abreu took batting practice on the field Saturday and hopes to return to game action Thursday. |
| 3/15/07 | Abreu hopes to take live batting practice this weekend. He is still hoping for an Opening Day return. |
| 3/12/07 | Abreu took 50 swings off a tee Sunday and reported no problems. |
| 3/08/07 | Abreu is expected to start taking swings over the weekend.
Abreu said he expects to be ready for Opening Day. |
| 3/06/07 | Manager Joe Torre said Abreu could begin taking practice swings within a few days. He's still looking to return on Opening Day. |
| 2/28/07 | Abreu won't swing a bat for 10 days and will need 10 more days to work on his conditioning. This brings us to late March for his return. He's still trying to be ready for Opening Day. |
| 2/27/07 | Abreu believes he'll be ready to start the season on time. |
| 2/26/07 | Abreu strained an oblique muscle in batting practice Monday and is expected to be shut down for at least a week or two. |
| 8/17/06 | Abreu drew two walks Wednesday to reach 100 for the eighth straight year. The streak matches the longest in major league history, previously done by Max Bishop (1926 to 1933) and Frank Thomas (1991 to 1998). |
| 7/30/06 | Yankees acquired Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle from the Yankees for minor leaguers C.J. Henry, Matt Smith, Jesus Sanchez and Carlos Monasterios. |
| 7/30/06 | According to ESPN, the Yankees have reached a tentative deal to acquire Bobby Abreu and Cory Lidle from the Phillies.
Abreu was just pulled from the Phillies' lineup for Sunday's game. We will keep you posted for a confirmation. |
| 7/10/06 | Bobby Abreu continues to hit, even with trade rumors swirling around. Abreu went 3-4 with 2 runs scored and a stolen base and has now reached base in 34 consecutive games. |
| 7/03/06 | Abreu has not let the trade rumors bother him at the plate. Abreu was 3-5 with 4 RBI's while batting in the three hole in the lineup. Abreu is on pace for one of his better RBI years. |
| 7/01/06 | Abreu, while not the 30-30 stud we have seen in the past, is still having a solid season. Abreu has been mentioned in many trade rumors and has reportedly agreed to waive his no-trade clause. Even with all the distractions and rumors, Abreu still has 8 HR's, 53 RBI's & 15 SB's to go with a .286 season average. |
| 6/09/06 | Abreu is on another streak, this time hitting safely in all 8 games in June. Abreu is 10-27 in those games and has 5 RBI's, 9 BB's and 2 SB's. With this hitting streak, Abreu has moved his average from .273 to .286 on the season. Abreu will eventually get his average over .300 so expect the hitting to continue. |
| 6/03/06 | Abreu is another player on the Phillies showing signs of heating up again. Abreu was 2-4 raising his average to .283 and now has 42 RBI's and 8 SB's on the season. Abreu is 1 of 4 Phillies to have 30 RBI's by June 1. |
| 5/22/06 | Abreu continues to stay hot at the plate and in the process raise his batting average. Abreu helped the Phillies end their 5-game losing streak by going 3-3 with 5 RBI's and missing the cycle by a double. In his last 6 games Abreu is 10-22 with 8 RBI's and 3 SB's and is batting .290 on the season. |
| 5/18/06 | Abreu, after missing a couple games with back spasms, has come back swinging. In the last two games versus Milwaukee, Abreu is 3-8 with 2 RBI's and looks comfortable at the plate. Abreu is safe to start in all fantasy leagues. |
| 4/29/06 | Abreu, normally a slow starter in April, has continued to bat over .300 and drive in runs. Over the last five games, Abreu is 5-15 with 5 RBI's and a SB. Abreu is sandwiched between Utley and Burrell in the lineup and is the perfect #3 hitter with power and average. |
| 4/16/06 | Abreu continued his hot start and is showing why he is still a top 5 fantasy outfielder. Last night Abreu hit a 2-run HR in the first and later had a 2-run double and a walk. On the season Abreu is hitting .341 with 13 RBI's in 11 games. |
| 3/21/06 | Since returning from the WBC, Abreu has found his hitting stroke. Facing Johan Santana, Abreu hit his first HR of the spring and knocked in his 3rd RBI. Abreu is now hitting .500 this spring and is still considered a top 5 OF in NL only leagues. Welcome back Bobby. |
| 3/18/06 | Maybe the trade rumors did hurt Abreu a little. Playing for team Venezuela, Abreu batted .150 on 3-20 hitting with 2 RBI's and seven strikeouts. Hopefully he can get back to normal now that he is in camp with the Phillies. In his first spring training action, Abreu was 1-3, with an RBI double. |
| 9/25/05 | Abreu has been plagued with a sore left thigh and right shoulder lately, but said he plans to play through it in the final week of the season. |
| 8/25/05 | Abreu is heating up again even though he seems to be going through another homerless drought. Abreu went 3-5 and drove in 2 in a victory against the Giants. Abreu is now hitting .346 with 16 RBI's in the month of August. |
| 5/13/05 | Bobby Abreu is hot! In the last 5 games, Abreu is 10-16 with 6 walks. Even with Thome out of the line-up, Abreu has managed to get his average and power numbers back to normal. Abreu is currently hitting .313 with 8 HR's, 22 RBI's and 10 SB's. If only the rest of the team could start hitting. |
| 7/17/04 | Abreu is now hitting .307 with 20 homers, 64 RBIs and 20 steals. "If he gets his average up a little, you're talking MVP numbers," Bowa said. |
| 5/24/04 | He is hitting .352. He is on a 12-game hitting streak and has hit safely in 14 of his last 15 games. Even more impressive than his hitting streak was his streak of scoring a run in each of his last 11 games. In his last four series (12 games); Abreu batted .452 with 4 HRs, 13 RBIs, 18 runs and 6 stolen bases. |
| 5/15/04 | Distracted by Jimmy Rollins on first, Joe Kennedy left a fastball over the plate to Abreu who belted his ninth home run of the season, turning a 3-1 Rockies lead into a 3-3 deadlock. |
| 5/01/04 | Abreu backed up his pitcher with a three-run homer. |
| 4/24/04 | Abreu went 4 for 5 with three doubles, a home run and five RBIs. His three doubles tied a career high. |
| 8/29/03 | Abreu aggravated his strained left knee late in Wednesday's game, but he played Thursday anyway. |
| 8/05/03 | Abreu missed yesterday's game with a sore left leg but expects to play tomorrow. |
| 6/26/03 | Abreu went 3 for 4 with two doubles and an RBI, and raised his average to .288. Since Bowa moved Abreu out of the leadoff spot after a five-game experiment and returned him to the middle of the order, where Abreu maintains he is most comfortable, he is 7 for 15 in four games with three doubles, two home runs and five RBIs.
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| 5/28/03 | Abreu has missed two games with a lower back strain but he's feeling better and should be ready to go tonight. |
| 5/26/03 | Michaels started in place of rightfielder Bobby Abreu, who was a late scratch because of a lower back strain.
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| 5/24/03 | Rollins and Abreu are the only Phillies to play in every game this season. |
| 5/11/03 | Abreu collected his ninth RBI in his last nine games.
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| 3/04/03 | Abreu claims that he ended last season at 210 pounds and he now weighs about 215. He believes he will be down to 210 by the end of spring training. The bulked-up frame, he said, was a result of hard work with weights.
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| 9/24/02 | Abreu takes a 16-game hitting streak into tonight's game. He needs one more walk to reach 100 in that department for the fourth straight season.
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| 9/23/02 | Abreu extended his hitting streak to 16 games, the longest by a Phillies hitter since Glanville's 18-game streak in 1998.
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| 9/20/02 | "Abreu could have played, but his hamstring was a little tight and I decided to let him rest," Bowa said. "He was limping [Wednesday] night."
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| 9/06/02 | Abreu, in a 1-for-24 slump going into the game, supported Wolf with two home runs - Nos. 18 and 19 - as well as a triple. He scored three runs.
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| 9/05/02 | Abreu has one hit in his last 24 at-bats. A lefthanded hitter, he won't play tomorrow against Mets lefty Al Leiter.
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| 8/25/02 | Abreu raised his average to .302 with a second straight three-hit performance. It included his 16th home run and 40th double of the season. In six games since Sunday, Abreu has batted .423 (11 for 26) with four doubles, four home runs, seven runs and nine RBIs.
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| 7/09/02 | He is on pace to walk 115 times and strike out 105, the first year his walks will eclipse his K's.
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| 6/26/02 | Abreu finished with three hits and is 6 for 9 in the first two games of the series.
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| 6/03/02 | Bobby Abreu had four RBIs last night. |
| 5/13/02 | Abreu, a .307 career hitter, struggled the least. He went 7-for-28 and fell from .270 to .260, but he also walked 10 times. However, he plummeted from .385 nine games into the season, after which he missed two games with a hamstring injury. Manager Larry Bowa dismisses the idea that Abreu has lingering leg issues.
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| 5/11/02 | Abreu broke a scoreless tie with two outs in the fifth inning last night, when he hit an opposite-field home run - his third of the season - off Diamondbacks righthander Rick Helling.
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| 5/10/02 | Abreu has received 27 walks so far. He has just 26 hits (.263) with 5 steals. He is not being pitched strikes. The signs of an unprotected batter. |
| 4/12/02 | Abreu is still day-to-day with a strained hamstring. |
| 4/10/02 | Abreu left tonight's game in the third inning after straining his left hamstring. |
| 2/04/02 | Abreu underwent an emergency apendectomy today in Venezuela. He has been released from the hospital, but is not expected to report to spring training on time. He should still be ready for Opening Day. |
| 5/21/01 | Abreu felt a twinge in his elbow last week. He hasn't missed any time and it doesn't look like anything serious at this point. |
| 2000 | He will be the right fielder every day in Philadelphia. Abreu will have minor elbow surgery in the off-season but will be ready in plenty of time for spring training.
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Bobby Abreu
