After reading that the Rays signed Carlos Pena to a one year deal wroth $7.5 million I thought that it was a pretty decent signing for both parties involved. Pena gets to play everyday and the Rays get a guy the fans love. But after I went back and looked at Pena’s last five years in [...]
Cole Hamels, Clayton Kershaw and Justin Verlander became the first trio in nearly 40 years to…
Adrian Beltre, Nelson Cruz, Josh Hamilton and Mike Napoli became the first foursome in the history of major league baseball to…
Jacoby Ellsbury, Adrian Gonzalez and David Ortiz
I know it is early in the season, but Shane Victorino is on pace for 29 doubles, 24 triples, 24 home runs, and 39 stolen bases. He would join current teammate and only two other players in the history of baseball to hit 20 doubles, 20 triples, 20 home runs and steal 20 bases in the same season.
Top 10 Reasons the Phillies will will the World Series- Halladay, Hamels and Oswalt are the only pitching staff ever with 190+ strikeouts, era’s under 3.10 and whip’s under 1.2.
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)
There are 19 pitching duo’s in the history of major league baseball finished a season north of 200 strikeouts and south of a 3.00 earned run average. The last tandem to accomplish this feat were the co-MVP’s of the world series winning Arizona Diamondbacks, Curt Schilling and randy Johnson.
Padro Martinez and Derek Lowe are the only duo to start at least 30 games in a season and finish with 20 or more wins and a WHIP (walks plus hits per inning) less than 1.00.
Rogers Hornsby remains the only player ever to have a batting average higher than .400 and a slugging percentage higher than .750.
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 only three players in the history of the game that have reached the following milestones: 1500 runs scored, 1500 runs batted in, 575 home runs, and a .400 on base percentage. Those players are Babe Ruth, Barry Bonds and most recently Jim Thome
Bobby Abreu at the young age of 36 is on pace to 9th 20/20 season of his career putting him behind only Bobby Bonds and Barry Bonds in sole possession of 3rd place.
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.
