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Originally Posted by D. Bergin
Yeah, thought so. 
I've gone down the Jim Rice rabbit hole before. He came one triple away from doing it two seasons in a row. He had 30 triples in a two year span, and 38 in a 3 year span.
Don't know how common it is, but he had far more career triples, then he had stolen bases.
Jim Rice has more career triples then Mickey Mantle.  |
Which leads me down another rabbit hole.
Stan Musial led the league in triples 5 times. 177 triples against only 78 stolen bases (and a rotten stolen base percentage of barely over 50% at that).
As a matter of fact, Stan has more triples then anybody whose career was entirely in the post-deadball era, except for Paul Waner (who also didn't steal many bases).
.....and the more I look, the more I see that hitting prowess may actually have more to do with triples production, then simply blazing speed.