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1. eric Posted: March 09, 2014 at 12:13 PM (#4668576)But even those guys hit .300 in other seasons. Cuddyer's 2013 BA was 57 points higher than he'd ever hit before. I don't know if that's a record (for a qualifying season) but I can only find one other player who comes close, Darin Erstad, whose best BA season was 56 points higher than his second-best.
Good for Cuddyer! He always struck me as an excessively ordinary player, but he has kept himself in shape and kept studying the game. BABIP fluctuation or no BABIP fluctuation, he had to go out there and make contact with those baseballs, at an age when almost everybody is in steady decline.
next best: .286
WAR: Carlos Gomez
Hits: Matt Carpenter
Doubles: Matt Carpenter
Runs: Matt Carpenter
Stolen bases: Eric Young Jr.
Home runs: Paul Goldschmidt, Pedro Alvarez
RBIs: Paul Goldschmidt
Slugging: Paul Goldschmidt
Batting average: Michael Cuddyer
OBP: Joey Votto
At least the last one might have been predicted by more than zero people.
Me, I'm still adjusting to the fact that you can lead the league with 36 home runs now. That wouldn't crack the top 15 ten years ago.
He never turned into the slugger I thought he'd be, though he did have a couple of pretty good years with the Twins eventually. The weird thing is that his on-base skills, which were excellent in the minors, deteriorated in the majors. I guess maybe that's to be expected, but it limited his value during his best seasons -- as did his defense, which has truly been awful. When he came up the Twins were trying him in the infield, which didn't work. The funny thing is that when they moved him to the outfield, that didn't really work, either.
I don't want to demean the guy, of course. But his career has managed to be both long, and not at all what I expected.
(Note to self: Never, ever keep a player named Josh.)
There was a player named "Debs Garms"? I assume he was the captain of the Latvian national team.
Pedro Alvarez led the league in home runs, strikeouts, and errors. I assume that has done before, but usually the leader in errors is a 3B, 2B or SS, so that rules out most of the legendary Three True Outcomes guys.
Ever since the Olympics, whenever I think of a player's name in my head I Latvian-ize it. Matts Harveys. Mikes Trouts. Bryces Harpers. Elvis Andrus.
Seems like a good guy. Photography is a hobby, he likes to take photos of the stadiums or city scenery on road trips. True, an ordinary at best player, so the batting title is a nice career highlight to tuck away. He doesn't seem like a good defender. So it probably would have been better to move Cuddyer to 1st rather than trade Fowler to sign Cuddy's buddy Morneau.
Especially since they backed off their plan to move Carlos Gonzalez to center. They did this to "save" CarGo's legs. Left field in Coors is pretty big. Is it really that much more wear to play center than left?
If LF is so big, what's the advantage of playing him in CF? :-)
Eric Young Jr. Who knew? I see dad led the league in 96 ... are they the first father-son duo to do it? Neither Bonds did and no other possible pair springs to mind.
First name to pop in my head was Mark Reynolds, but he never led the league in homerun(best year he was fourth) Howard Johnson led in homeruns and errors but was 6th in strikeouts... No luck on finding anyone else yet.
My immediate thought upon reading this was that it should be called the Dick Stuart Triple Crown. Stuart was close every year--he led the league in errors every year--but never did win a home run title and only led the league in strikeouts once. But then he was only allowed to play every day for three years.
I don't think anyone else qualifies, though Dick Allen did the Errors/Strikeouts/Triples trifecta.
I don't even know where to find league leaders in errors but, as noted above, it would seem to have to be an IF to pull it off. So Schmidt is probably the best bet -- he did lead in HR and Ks with 26 errors in 74. I doubt 26 errors led the league. Banks never led the league in Ks. Mathews led the league in Ks only in his rookie season when he didn't lead in HR. Hack Wilson probably gave it a good go in 1930, managing to accumulate 19 errors but that's only a lot for an OF, I assume an IF beat him.
Davey Johnson didn't lead the league in 73 and he didn't come close in Ks but did make an uncharacteristic 30 errors that year (gotta be the roids!).
Oh, I found the error leaderboard. No on Schmidt. A second no on Banks.
Perez in 70 came kinda close -- #3 in HR, #7 in Ks, #1 in errors.
They're not really major categories, but I found these:
Ken Griffey Sr. led the NL in stolen base percentage in 1980, 16 years before Jr. led the AL. Sandy Alomar led the AL in PA in 1970 and 1971, then Roberto did it in the NL in 1989.
Cecil and Prince Fielder in HR and RBI.
Can't think of others offhand. Steve Trout, Todd Stottlemyre, and Moises Alou never seem to have led the league in anything, though their fathers did.
The easiest way I know of is to go to the Leaders page, find most errors and then yearly leaders category. Eyeballing it, there are only a handful of error leaders who might have been in the running, but none that I could see who would have captured the Dr. Strangeglove Triple Crown (at least post 1900).
Man, someone even mentioned Hamilton in this very thread! ;-)
Josh Hamilton 2010 - .359
2nd highest - .304
The article also mentioned Galarraga:
Andres Galarraga 1993 - .370
2nd highest - .319
The story I always heard, both from Bill James and somewhere else, is that ALexander was badly burned in a primitive version of a whirlpool bath. Maybe that story was just some tall tale they told the public I dont know. But I never knew he turned up in the minors for a long time thereafter, so maybe there is more to the story that what I read?
"On May 30, 1933, Alexander twisted a knee in a game at Philadelphia. He was given diathermy treatment ("electrically induced heat" used for muscle relaxation) in the clubhouse by Red Sox trainer, Doc Woods. Alexander's leg suffered third degree burns during the treatment, and gangrene eventually set in. "It was a new method of treatment and not too much was known about it," Alexander said, years later. "I noticed my leg felt awfully hot. I ended up with third-degree burns and a gangrene infection and almost lost my leg. I was finished in the Majors... I couldn't run and I couldn't field and when I got hurt, that was the end." Alexander attempted a comeback but injured his leg again in July 1933 and saw limited action for the rest of the season, mostly as a pinch hitter. Alexander wound up hitting .281 in 1933 and played his last Major League game was on September 23, 1933 against the New York Yankees."
next best: .363
As I look at his BBREF page, I see why: 4.6 dWAR.
Wow. That ... that is tough for me to buy. All of a sudden at age 28, he turns out like an all time peak year for a defensive center fielder (A. Jones high is 3.9).
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