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Posted: September 28, 2022 at 11:27 PM | 29 comment(s)
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1. RoyalsRetro (AG#1F) Posted: September 28, 2022 at 11:34 PM (#6098290)Myles Straw has played in 146 games this year, 576 PA, and has yet to hit his first HR. If we set a reasonably high minimum for PA (like 500), I wonder what the biggest spread within a league would be? This would obviously be the AL record (or at least tied).
In 2001, Juan Pierre had 2 HR in 683 PA and Bonds hit 73. So that must be it.
Duane Kuiper with 1 HR in 3,754 PA 1974-1985
Mike Schmidt with 439 HR
OK, maybe not the record since I'd guess a few have hit more than Schmidt over an 11-year span so the gap will be bigger, really just an excuse to remind everyboyd about Kuiper's impressive lack of power.
And the majority of Floyds too. (the type humor just keeps on giving!)
I'm not a Stathead subscriber so I can't see the details, but it looks like Straw is one of just 10 players since 2000 to have a season with 500 or more PA and no home runs. Framed differently, only 5 players since 2000 have had more PA than Straw in a homer-less season. If he gets to 600 PA, there would only be 3 guys ahead of him.
Frazier is rested! Next year is his year!
I'm starting to think that prediction may not pan out.
In 1999 the Marlins' Luis Castillo hit 0 home runs in 563 PA, the same year Sammy Sosa hit 63.
With a name like that he should be a Yankees fans.
#12 - And Sosa didn't even lead the league. Mac had 65.
PA/year/player, team
729 2007 Juan Pierre, LAD
676 2005 Jason Kendall, PIT
674 2010 Elvis Andrus, TEX
579 2001 Rey Sanchez, ATL/KC
577 2010 Nyjer Morgan, WSN
576 2022 Myles Straw, CLE
568 2005 Scott Podsednik, CHW
553 2012 Ben Revere, MIN
518 2007 Reggie Willits, LAA
510 2011 Jamey Carroll, LAD
In 2022, he has just 1 HR in 598 PA.
#shrugemoji
Wow, I just looked up these guys.
Revere went homerless for his first 1,558 ABs, then had 2 HRs in 2014.
Willits had a career slugging average of .302 in 414 games.
Carroll went more than 3 full years without a homer (from August 9, 2009 until September 3, 2012, despite playing full-time in both 2010 and 2011). 1,534 at-bats between home runs.
Amazingly, Juan Pierre never had consecutive homerless seasons.
Kirby Puckett was homerless in 583 PA in 1984, then hit 31 in 1986.
From 1920-1935, Rabbit Maranville hit 8. Ruth hit 665. Muddy Ruel hit 4 from 1920-1934. Interestingly, Maranville hit 20 HR in the teens.Ruel hit none in the teens. His career matched Ruth's almost perfectly, 1915-1934. 4 HR to Ruth's 708 during that span.
Carroll went more than 3 full years without a homer (from August 9, 2009 until September 3, 2012, despite playing full-time in both 2010 and 2011). 1,534 at-bats between home runs.
I forgot this guy existed. But there's more than one way to produce value. In those 4 seasons, 2009-12, Carroll produced 9 WAR and 3 WAA despite a complete lack of power. 358 OBP and good defense goes a lot way.
Just defense goes a long way. Myles Straw himself, of the 218/289/272 batting line this year, is at 2.5 WAR / 0.6 WAA per B-R. RAA by category:
-23 batting
+3 baserunning
+5 DP avoidance
+16 defense
+4 position
+5 overall
What if one of the two is Sadaharu Oh?
If I read b-r right, this was actually his first year in Oak, not Pitt. But the impressive bit about that season was not the 0 HR, it was the 676 PA from a C -- 146 starts there plus 3 at DH. He was mind-bogglingly durable, made 149(!) starts at age 34.
For comparison, Yadi's career high is 142 with a string of several years in the 130s. Kendall played 15 seasons compared to Yadi's 19 but Kendall has about 200 more PA. Sal Perez has one season of 143 starts that he followed with a 137. You might have to go back to Randy Hundley to find anything truly similar and Hundley's fell apart after 4 years of that. Bench had an equally/more impressive run in terms of PAs but that was supplemented by spending his "off" days elsehwere, his high in starts was 139. Pudge II had a 4-year run of 137-141 starts.
Or to put it another way, Kendall averaged 133 C starts a year for 15 years. He had 8 years of 140 or more. He made just 117 starts in his rookie year, just 118 in his final year and he missed half of 1999. Otherwise the only season below 130 was 2001 when he started 127 at C and 27 in the OF. I hope he's enjoying his well-earned retirement.
Thanks for the correction, and also for sharing the list in #15.
I guess we can say "no one with as many PA as Myles Straw" has hit 0 home runs in a year where someone else in his league hit 60 HR since 1927.
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