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Tuesday, August 07, 2018
Eric Davis couldn’t do it.
Alex Rodriguez couldn’t do it.
Willie Mays himself couldn’t do it.
Jose Ramirez? Jose Ramirez might do it.
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1. eric Posted: August 07, 2018 at 10:10 AM (#5722231)I am rooting for him, anyways.
Right now he's got 7.1 WAR in 93 games, along with a 184 OPS+.
Rickey Henderson had 2 years with 9.9 WAR, 1990 and 1985, which came with OPS+ numbers of 189 and 157. He also put up a 182 OPS+ in 1993, but that only came along with 5.0 WAR.
I'd say Mookie's got a pretty damn good shot. And there's no question he's a better defensive outfielder.
That was in his 90 games with Oakland. For the whole season he had a 148 OPS+.
Correction noted, and it only magnifies the scarcity of Mookie's accomplishment.
Not a chance. He's filled out quite a bit, I'd say at a minimum he's 30 pounds over that.
Henderson was significantly better in his '85 and '88 seasons at 18 and 17 Rbaser than anything Betts is going to do (probably), but Betts isn't all that far behind other Henderson years. Betts doesn't steal all that much, but he's put up back to back years of 9 Rbaser, not far off Henderson's other top years of 12, 12, & 11 (1983, 1986, 1982).
He doesn't walk all that much, but otherwise Betts just doesn't do anything poorly. He started 2 years older than Trout, but through 5 seasons Betts should be pretty close to the 37.0 WAR Trout put up (I'm including both of their initial abbreviated call up years in that 5 years). Betts is at 31.4 with a few more games to go.
It's that the AL leader in SB's only has 26. Yeah almost 2 more months to go, but in some ways I miss the 80's...
Setting aside the two Rickey seasons, there's Mike Trout's 2012.
Good point. I'd forgotten that Trout led off for the Angels that year.
OTOH Mookie's still got a fair chance of passing even that spectacular year. He'd only need 3 more WAR to catch Trout, and the Red Sox still have 49 more games to play.
So, you're saying it's PEDs?
Slugging over .600 and an OPS+ of 182 is mighty good. Fans of old-fashioned counting stats might lean toward Darin Erstad's 240 hits and 100 RBI.
Jose Ramirez should be the biggest story in baseball. He hasn't been overlooked, exactly, but it's almost like he came out of nowhere to become the best player in the game. They should be making movies about him.
I remember in 2016 thinking, "Oh, this utility infielder is having a good month. That's nice." Then last year he became a legit MVP candidate and this year he's even better. My goodness, he was (briefly) leading the league in HR and SB at the same time, he's batting ~.300 with almost 20 more walks than strikeouts (on pace for only 80 strikeouts, which is quite impressive these days), and Fangraphs has him as the third-best defensive 3B in the game (UZR/150). What CAN'T he do?
Or the great Brady Anderson's 50 HR, 110 rbi, and .637 SLG!
That's gotta be the SLG record for a leadoff hitter, no?
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