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Alex

@AlexDevMLB

Resident Dick Allen supporter, Northwestern Data Science ‘25

Joined Kasım 2020
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Alex@AlexDevMLB·
@BaseballWRLD_ Chase DeLauter (1 career game) has 0.3 fWAR in his MLB career Keibert Ruiz (7 MLB seasons and under contract through 2032) has 0.2 fWAR in his MLB career
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AT@BaseballWRLD_·
The highest OPS in MLB history, minimum 5 plate appearances:
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(Judge’s spans include playoff hitting in case anybody was wondering)
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@jayhaykid The acquisition of Nap Lajoie was so important to Cleveland baseball that, within a year, the team’s name was changed to “Cleveland Napoleons” Cleveland’s baseball team was named after Nap Lajoie for 1860 games. Albert Belle played 1737 pro baseball games in his whole career
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nugget chef
nugget chef@jayhaykid·
Of course the column is bad, but I’m more annoyed by what you find at the bottom, which appears to be a franchise ranking that has Omar Vizquel ahead of Jim Thome, who has a statue.
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@podoffame You don’t think Jim Thome is a top-30 hitter in MLB history?
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Jim Miloch@podoffame·
And I think that is the perfect group for Trout to be in. The only player in that group that is a top 30 player of all-time is Rickey Henderson, who is a completely different type of player. Eddie Collins has an argument as a top 30 guy, but I wouldn't have him in mine. His peak was in the deadball era, so it checks he would never get over 300 TB. Thanks for doing the work.
Alex@AlexDevMLB

Top-50 in career Batting Runs & never had a 340-TB year: Eddie Collins (peak 297) Jim Thome (331) Mike Trout (339) Edgar Martinez (322) Rickey Henderson (285) Willie McCovey (322) Reggie Jackson (334) Harmon Killebrew (328) Joey Votto (328) Willie Stargell (337) Al Kaline (327)

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Alex@AlexDevMLB·
Top-50 in career Batting Runs & never had a 340-TB year: Eddie Collins (peak 297) Jim Thome (331) Mike Trout (339) Edgar Martinez (322) Rickey Henderson (285) Willie McCovey (322) Reggie Jackson (334) Harmon Killebrew (328) Joey Votto (328) Willie Stargell (337) Al Kaline (327)
Jim Miloch@podoffame

I am apparently the 1%. Ken Griffey Jr. had 7 seasons with 40+ home runs. Exceeded 50 HR twice. In 8 seasons, he drove in 100+ runs. Trout had 3 seasons with 40+ home runs. Never hit over 45 in a season. He drove in 100+ runs in 3 seasons. We can dismiss gold gloves all we want (at times, rightfully so), but the 10-0 advantage is….something. Griffey Jr. left a mark in the game that Trout just did not. When Trout’s career OPS+ falls into the 150s as he continues playing, the top 30 talk will soon die off. We are talking about a guy who never exceeeded 340 total bases in a season. Is there a top 50 offensive player who never did that at least once?

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Alex@AlexDevMLB·
@podoffame @baseball_ref You get disproportionately more total bases if you’re a high-average/low-walk hitter. A hitting stat that ranks 2004 Miguel Tejada over every season by Mike Trout, Manny Ramirez, Jim Thome, Mike Schmidt, Eddie Murray, and Reggie Jackson should not be used as a be-all end-all
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Jim Miloch@podoffame·
187 players have reached 340+ total bases at least once. Babe Ruth reached it 10 times. 74 other players did it all more than once. During Trout's peak from 2012-2019, 23 players did it, some several times. The year-by-year breakdown is below, so again, it is not that special.
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BikeBrh@bikebrh

@podoffame 187 is well under one player per league per year, Ackshually, so actually does seem special.

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Alex@AlexDevMLB·
@hallofgoodpod You’d think, but early baseball had some putrid players. Bill Stearns pitched in the first 5 seasons of MLB, producing a 12.88 RA9 and 31 OPS+ with the worst WAR ever Stearns was also the first MLB player to become a military casualty, contracting malaria during the Span-Am War
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MLB Hall of Pretty Good@hallofgoodpod·
This has gotta be the furthest anyone’s bWAR has ever dipped into the negative. This guy got 343 at-bats back in 1906 and hit .159 with a .359 OPS and a 16 OPS+.
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@JohnnyTheMook @Nyanasaur Strikeouts have been proven to be slightly more valuable than ball-in-play outs for every season in MLB history. The negative value of GIDPs outweighs the positive value of “productive outs” The only exception is 1925 Negro Leagues, because they didn’t log fielding stats
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Johnny The Mook@JohnnyTheMook·
@Nyanasaur Putting the ball in play is always better than a strikeout. Anyone that knows ball knows this. lol
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Nyanasaur@Nyanasaur·
Luis Arráez FC will tell you this is actually good because he didn't strikeout
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Alex@AlexDevMLB·
@RyneClos @podoffame In a modern age of baseball where we can confidently say that: Walks/HBPs are valuable and should be accounted for The difference in value between 1B/2B/3B/HR is not linear Raw counting stats are less precise than “rate stat * raw volume” counting stats TB rebukes them all
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@RyneClos @podoffame Omar Vizquel has more TBs in his career than Mike Trout, Edgar Martinez, Joey Votto, Mark McGwire, Lance Berkman, and many other players that were far better hitters than Omar Vizquel. TB is fine for what it is, but it commits basically every sin of modern baseball stats
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Jim Miloch@podoffame·
Aaron Judge walks a lot and has reached 340+ total bases four times. A lot of excuses here.
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@podoffame It doesn't show that at all. It shows he walked a lot. And he produced for a whole season 5 years in a row. Then he got hit with the injury bug but still produced at a very high level for 3 more. TB is a somewhat antiquated stat that rewards hits but gives no credit for walks.

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UrAverageYinzer@Oneyedwilly757·
@YankeeWRLD @TheRedStripesSG You just can’t have a straight face and argue the MLB has similar parity to the NFL. You’re delusional if you think that.
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@Oneyedwilly757 @YankeeWRLD @TheRedStripesSG Number of teams that have made it to the championship in the last 10 years: NFL, 8 MLB, 13 20 years: NFL, 19 MLB, 19 30 years: NFL, 21 MLB, 23 And the NFL still has 4 teams that have NEVER made the SB. MLB’s four newest teams each made the WS within their first 15 seasons
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Not Gaetti@notgaetti·
Listen, chief, if you think Griffey was "mid," it may surprise you to learn that he is the *only* player in MLB history with at least: • 440 Rbat • 16 Rbaser • 9 Rdp • 3 Rfield Those are the constituent inputs that make the WAR sausage, and *nobody* tops him in all of them.
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Boo Radley@Kremer202011514

@notgaetti Griffey was mid

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Alex@AlexDevMLB·
@yodaprom @YankeeWRLD @Nyanasaur @jarredjennings @DraftKings I used the wrong word for “barometer” and I don’t feel like changing it but the point still stands. The way we judge offense shouldn’t change for position, but the magnitude at which point offense becomes “elite” should
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@yodaprom @YankeeWRLD @Nyanasaur @jarredjennings @DraftKings We should judge positions differently in terms of barometers, not parameters. A catcher needs to hit a lower offensive threshold than a third baseman to be considered HOF-worthy, but the way we judge offense should be the same regardless of position
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DraftKings@DraftKings·
Potential Hall of Famers we’ll see in 2026 👀 Which active player is a Cooperstown lock? 🔒
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Nyanasaur@Nyanasaur·
@YankeeWRLD @yodaprom @AlexDevMLB @jarredjennings @DraftKings It always surprises me the way that Royals fans talk about Salvy's bat when he has a career 105 OPS+ (good for a long time catcher, but NOT HOF caliber) I've seen people say he had comparable offense to Piazza, and just... in what universe???
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