with the New York Mets. Then, the Fireflies best single-season power hitter Juan Carlos Negret sits in second with 23 round trippers. Negret played for Columbia in 2021 and he launched a new era of Fireflies baseball into existence setting a Fireflies single- season record for homers to welcome the Royals into town. Peña came out of the gates hot this season. Smashing four homers to the tune of a .240 average and a .321 on-base percentage in 20 games in April. That put him tied with
Negret for second-most homers in franchise history—just a pair of round trippers behind Winningham. Peña has been particularly good in the friendly confines this season, slashing .279/.380/.558 in 12 games at Segra Park and .163/.217/.256 in 11 games on the road so far. With 13 opportunities to hit a pair of homers with the team at Segra Park to tie Winningham for the most all-time. The opportunity seems almost too poetic, especially with Copa de la Diversion weekend coming up to close out the homestand. It’s a chance for Peña to represent Los Chiccarones de Columbia and etch his name at the top of the Fireflies record books. Now all that’s left to do is watch it play out. Pack Segra Park with the opportunity to see history against the Salem Red Sox and Charleston RiverDogs these next few weeks. It could all happen at once—he’s hit two homers in a game—or it could be spread across a few games, but what we do know is that every at-bat will bring added excitement to the field as we wait to experience something for the first time in Fireflies history.
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