Eclipsing the 40 home run palteau three times in his career he would hit 50 home runs while striking out only 42 times in 1947
Brady Anderson and Barry Bonds are the only two players who have hit 50 home runs and stolen 50 bases in a single season (not the same season)
Rogers Hornsby remains the only player ever to have a batting average higher than .400 and a slugging percentage higher than .750.
Since 1917, only one player has stolen 55 or more bases and finished the year with a batting average of .370 or higher.
Eric Davis is the only player in Major League Baseball history to hit 35 or more home runs and steal 50 or more bases.
Biggio remains the only player to hit 50 doubles, steal 50 bases and hit 20 home runs in the same season.
Babe Ruth remains the only player in baseball history to accumulate 170 runs scored and 170 runs batted in during the same season. In fact only one other player has eclipsed the 160/160 plateau, Lou Gehrig. In Ruth’s magical season, he would hit 59 home runs, 44 doubles, 16 triples and .378/.512/.846. Not too bad for a pitcher with a career 2.28 earned run average.
But in 1911 Ty Cobb became the first and only player with a slugging percentage higher than .600 with 80 or more stolen bases. His 83 stolen bases doubled the total for Bonds (40) and nearly doubled the total for Sisler (42).
In 1932, playing for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chuck Klein accomplished a feat that no man before him or since him as accomplished. Klein would record 30+ home runs, 20+ stolen bases, 50+ doubles, and 15+ triples. He would go on to lead the league in games played, runs scored, hits, home runs, stolen bases, slugging [...]
Babe Ruth remains the only player to hit 60 or more home runs and maintain a .350 batting average.
There are currently 13 catchers in major league baseball’s Hall of Fame. Of these 13 players, five have a career batting average north of .295 and four have hit more than 300 home runs. No player has accomplished both. Let me rephrase that.
During the 2009 post-season Cal Ripken Jr. commented during a TBS post-game report that Guerrero was the “best bad-ball hitter he’s ever seen,” after witnessing a base hit on a pitch that bounced in the dirt before reaching the plate.
In the case of Curt Schilling one can look at the ten seasons beginning in 1997 and ending in 2006. Schilling tallied a 3.41 earned run average and a .643 win percentage with 155 wins and only 86 losses. In each season he averaged 222 strikeouts, 40 walks, 9.4 strikeouts per nine innings and a 5.58 strikeout to walk ratio.
For several years after the retirement of Michael Jack Schmidt, arguably the best overall third baseman in the history of major league baseball, the Phills had tried filling the void at the hot corner with what can be described only as 2nd tier players at best. Kim Batiste, Dave Hollins, Charlie Hayes, Milt Thompson and [...]
McGriff would hit 30 or more home runs ten times in his career, including seven consecutive seasons. He would add eight seasons with 100 runs batted in. Selected for five All-Star Games, McGriff would win the All-Star Game MVP award in 1994 with a 2-run home run in the bottom of 9th that would tie the game and send it into extra innings. He would retire with three Silver Slugger awards and six top-10 finishes in MVP voting. He also was first player to ever lead both the American League and National League in home runs
Growing up watching Barry Larkin play I can remember his entire 19 year career with the Reds include 12 all star appearances, 3 gold gloves, a career .295/.371/.444, and 397 steals with only 77 caught stealing for an impressive 84% steal percentage. He would retire with 9 silver slugger awards, 441 doubles and 198 home [...]
While some remember Roberto Alomar as one of the best defensive second basemen to ever play the game, many cannot forget the infamous evening of September 21, 2001 in which a distraught Alomar spat in the face of home plate umpire John Hirchback after being ejected for arguing a third called strike. Fortunately for Alomar, [...]
Abreu talks power surgeUploaded by FOX_Sports_Interactive. – Discover the latest sports and extreme videos. There are only 50 players in major league history with 500 or more doubles, Bobby Abreu currently has 475. There are only 20 players in the history of baseball in the 250/250 club, Abreu being one. There have been fifty two [...]
